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Use the Saw, Fear the Saw

https://stephango.com/saw
1•tosh•33s ago•0 comments

Limoges Town Hall, Which Survived Two World Wars, Is Destroyed in France Riots

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/limoges-town-hall-survived-two-054115920.html
1•baxtr•2m ago•0 comments

The Decoherence Trap

https://maevyn.codes/decoherence
1•mfbx9da4•4m ago•0 comments

Three Scenarios for a Leaderless World

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opinion/america-world-order-democracy-trump.html
2•dkobia•4m ago•0 comments

The Standard of Excellence in Exhibition Poultry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Poultry_Standards
1•Bluestein•4m ago•0 comments

Minmax matrix: Desk routing went from 11% to 90%"

https://medium.com/@vektormemory/vektor-2-0-1-desk-routing-went-from-11-to-90-heres-how-we-measur...
1•vektormemory•10m ago•1 comments

Why is GitHub so bad at UI?

https://earthly-delights.net/blog/github/
2•mustardgreen•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Chrome extension that types one prompt into many AI chat tabs

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/use-multiple-chat-ai-at-o/pcpciffaliaooacnhiefjiegigjidehp
1•yesgenius•10m ago•0 comments

The Landscape of Humanoids – 2,351 products, 788 companies

https://airfold.co/humanoid-technology-map/
3•julianofficial•14m ago•0 comments

Blitz 3D Pro: A 2D/3D cool BASIC based on BlitzBasic

https://twitter.com/BlackCreepy_Cat/status/2111739882821374354
1•seyhajin•14m ago•0 comments

Young People and the Future of Free Expression

https://knightfoundation.org/articles/research/young-people-and-the-future-of-free-expression/
1•jruohonen•16m ago•0 comments

Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcWkApGjyGM
2•jackdoe•21m ago•0 comments

I verified on-chain why mined Pi and exchange Pi are the same asset

https://github.com/aybvip/pi-fungibility
1•ayoubbbs•22m ago•0 comments

Data centers are now the largest financial bet in US history

https://stateline.org/2026/10/16/data-centers-are-now-the-largest-financial-bet-in-us-history/
3•rdmuser•22m ago•0 comments

I may have discovered a new exoplanet using Claude

https://sixeleven.in/blog/tic402710280
1•specbug•22m ago•0 comments

The One Question I Can't Stand at Restaurants ("What's your phone number?")

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/10/restaurant-phone-number-question/688926/
2•Kaibeezy•24m ago•2 comments

Eval of 19 ways to crop images using LLMs, Jev and image classification models

https://workflows-of-ai.com/blog/can-ai-set-the-focal-point-of-a-photo
1•marcus_johansso•24m ago•0 comments

Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-p...
2•DeepLogin•25m ago•0 comments

Study Offers Insights on How Heart Valves Last So Long

https://news.ncsu.edu/2026/10/how-heart-valves-last-so-long/
1•giuliomagnifico•25m ago•0 comments

What an adult ADHD diagnosis taught me

https://blog.raed.dev/posts/adhd/
1•Raed667•28m ago•0 comments

It's time to talk about TEEs

https://alinush.github.io//tee
1•joshcsimmons•32m ago•0 comments

Everything Rhymes with Porcelain

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/everything-rhymes-with-porcelain/
1•dverlaeckt80•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AIOps Cockpit – An open-source AI SRE with human-in-the-loop safety

https://github.com/matricphase-dot/aiops
1•adityam_9911•35m ago•0 comments

The Public Pays to Produce Research. Shareholders Collect the Return

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2•jruohonen•36m ago•0 comments

Open-source tax rules for 100 countries that your LLM can use

https://github.com/openaccountants/openaccountants
2•MichaelCutajar•37m ago•0 comments

Offline-first payment protocol with adaptive Byzantine consensus (3f+1 → 1f+1)

https://github.com/masondosibongakonke2-blip/yodpay-core
1•sbongamasondo•38m ago•0 comments

Gaza changed Europe, exposing cracks that grow bigger by the week

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/15/how-gaza-changed-europe-exposing-cracks-tha...
1•hebelehubele•40m ago•0 comments

We're sunsetting Codeberg Pages v2

https://blog.codeberg.org/migrate-your-site-to-the-new-git-pages-backed-codeberg-pages-now-were-s...
3•classified•45m ago•0 comments

China proposes export controls on its advanced AI models and chip designs

https://thenextweb.com/news/china-ai-export-controls-draft
2•poszlem•45m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why people keep posting AI-generated projects around the Internet?

3•Eliah_Lakhin•46m ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why people keep posting AI-generated projects around the Internet?

3•Eliah_Lakhin•46m ago
Programming-related subreddits and other media platforms are current flooded by the waterfall of AI-generated projects. A typical post contains a problem description and the link to GitHub repo created just recently with sustainable amount of generated code in it. With the invite to review it, and to give a community feedback.

The quality of the projects vary, but very often these are codebases generated in a few days solely by the AI-agentic systems with little to no human review and prior history of development and recognition.

I'm asking this question not out of critiques. I genuinely don't understand motivation and the roots of this phenomena.

Asking for the professional code review seems to be pointless for the publisher. Many of them didn't have prior experience in the programming language in which the code has been generated. Furthermore, the code is seemingly not interested for the publisher either. It does not look to me as a good start for community-driven (F)OSS project anyway.

Another motivation that I can imaging is seeking for public recognition. But considering the amount of postings, I think it's highly unlikely in the current situation even for the genuinely high-effort works.

I can also assume that some are seeking for the self promotion by faking professional skills with AI assistance. That might be true for some, but the majority don't hide the fact that the presented code has been generated. It's unlikely the main motivation too.

So, I completely lost in understanding on what's going on, and what steams this never-stopping process. At a first glance the author doesn't gain anything in return, and I don't understand what they are seeking for.

Comments

colesantiago•44m ago
Because the field of software is destroyed and full of slop by making it more and more and more accessible to more people.

This isn't inherently bad but it is much harder to see what is worth paying attention to.

We have done this to ourselves (as software engineers and those who work with code) because of FOSS.

The value of software completely has gone to zero.

Eliah_Lakhin•34m ago
That might be an issue for the software dev in general, I fully agree with you here, but my question was not about it. I don't understand the motivation for publishers of those projects. They literally don't gain anything positive in return by announcing the project. Sometimes the community pushed back, but more often just ignores the posting as spam.
NishanStepak•29m ago
What is going on is you get a lot of people who pretend or actually have domain expertise who want to make something. The problem is that there is no real guarantee of actually having the expertise or taking the time to make something that is decent. Thus you get someone who either knows a lot about wine for example or has a hobby about wine who wants to make a wine site. They then try to make a wine site and depending on their motivation make something terrible or if they are obsessed something which is somewhat decent after a lot of effort. The other problem is that AI is very hard to make anything above B grade material. You need a technical person to help to make a commercial grade site. Thus you get a lot of mediocre sites, some truly awful sites, and a few slightly above average sites. The other thing that goes with this is that there is no control over the veracity, accuracy, normalcy, or radicalness of the sites being created. It is turly anything goes. People want to show what they are interested in or their expertise...