Hacker News with Generative AI: Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow is almost dead (pragmaticengineer.com)
Four months ago, we asked Are LLMs making Stack Overflow irrelevant? Data at the time suggested that the answer is likely "yes:"

Stack Overflow, Programming, Technology, Online Communities

133 points by Jerry2 8 days ago | 263 comments

Prolog's Eternal September (2017) (storytotell.org)
I realized recently that the way I have been handling answers to Prolog questions on Stack Overflow contravenes the rules.

Programming, Stack Overflow, Prolog

87 points by Tomte 15 days ago | 90 comments

Stack Overflow Is Down (stackoverflow.com)
Is it not possible to determine the number of frames in a GdkPixbufAnimation?

Stack Overflow, Programming, Errors

13 points by scbenet 51 days ago | 7 comments

Changing Forecasts for Python Questions on Stack Overflow (win-vector.com)
I recently conducted a small time series workshop session for AI+ training hosted by ODSC. It went really well, and I’d be happy to offer longer interactive workshops going forward (please reach out if your team would like one!).

Programming, Data Science, Python, Stack Overflow, Time Series

25 points by jmount 70 days ago | 5 comments

AI-generated Answers experiment on Stack Exchange sites (stackexchange.com)
AI-generated Answers experiment on Stack Exchange sites that volunteered to participate

Artificial Intelligence, Stack Overflow, Experimentation

74 points by nsoonhui 107 days ago | 61 comments

Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? (pragmaticengineer.com)
The volume of questions asked on StackOverflow started to fall quickly after ChatGPT was released in November 2022, and the drop continues into 2025 at alarming speed.

Programming, Stack Overflow, Artificial Intelligence

13 points by healsdata 122 days ago | 11 comments

Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? (pragmaticengineer.com)

Stack Overflow, Programming, Technology, Software Development

10 points by Philpax 122 days ago | 4 comments

Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow (evancarroll.com)
Stack Exchange is a large online crowd sourced content provider for questions and answers. The Stack Exchange network of sites includes everything from cooking, to politics, and Judaism and Islam. In 2021, it was sold to a private equity company Prosus for 1.8 billion USD. Its largest asset is Stack Overflow, a site tailored to programmers. The Stack Overflow site is a vital resource for software developers. Ideally, it makes it easy and free to ask questions and get professional assistance.

Programming, Stack Overflow, Online Communities

990 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 135 days ago | 810 comments

New questions on Stack Overflow are down 77% compared to 2022 (github.com)

Stack Overflow, Programming, Trends, Software Development

79 points by 8s2ngy 135 days ago | 71 comments

Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack? (2016) (unity.com)

Debugging, Programming, Memory Management, Stack Overflow

369 points by pierremenard 146 days ago | 190 comments

Stack Overflow Does Not Want to Help You (bearblog.dev)
Stack Overflow's traffic has been in decline, and the convenient narrative is to blame it on LLMs.

Stack Overflow, Programming

41 points by closed-offtopic 178 days ago | 37 comments

We're (Finally) Going to the Cloud (stackexchange.com)
Stack Overflow has existed since 2008. At that time, it was a logical choice to run this from our own hardware in a datacenter. The company started with a small group of people who owned every aspect of the application, from the infrastructure to the code. We built a monolithic application that scaled incredibly well and we squeezed the most out of the hardware we had.

Cloud Computing, Software Development, Technology, History, Stack Overflow

29 points by hooverd 190 days ago | 3 comments

My most downvoted StackOverflow answer (ohadravid.github.io)

Programming, Stack Overflow, Community

61 points by signa11 260 days ago | 71 comments

My most downvoted StackOverflow answer (ohadravid.github.io)

Stack Overflow, Programming, Community

16 points by todsacerdoti 260 days ago | 10 comments

The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis (pdftranslate.ai)

Data Analysis, Software, Stack Overflow

92 points by sh_tomer 269 days ago | 125 comments

Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away? (ycombinator.com)