Hacker News with Generative AI: Trends

You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News (jasonthorsness.com)
And now I can analyze it with DuckDB. Behold the fraction of total comments and stories referencing key topics over time!
Hacker News, Data Analysis, DuckDB, Trends
451 points by jasonthorsness 3 days ago | 227 comments
GPU Price Tracker (unitedcompute.ai)
Track current prices, specifications, and historical trends for the most popular GPUs
GPU, Hardware, Pricing, Trends
53 points by ushakov 5 days ago | 44 comments
Why Sedans Disappeared (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Auto Industry, Cars, Trends
21 points by MrBuddyCasino 5 days ago | 25 comments
Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years (livescience.com)
Orcas, Animal Behavior, Marine Biology, Trends, Nature
19 points by jnord 8 days ago | 3 comments
Ask HN: Why so many companies reducing middle management recently? (ycombinator.com)
Management, Business, Hiring, Economy, Trends
9 points by arduinomancer 8 days ago | 13 comments
Kakistocracy: Rule by the Worst (econlib.org)
Every year in December, The Economist finds a “word of the year” that summarizes a major event or trend and has gained popularity in its wake.
Politics, Language, Trends, Economics
16 points by KnuthIsGod 8 days ago | 5 comments
Vibe Coding: The Infrastructure Problem (ycombinator.com)
The vibe coding trend has gained significant attention lately, but I believe we need a reality check on what it can actually deliver for production applications.
Software Development, Trends, Infrastructure
8 points by nomadrian 9 days ago | 3 comments
Ask HN: What are the hottest areas of *non*-LLM AI work currently? (ycombinator.com)
10+ years ago, "AI" would likely refer to work in RL, evolutionary/genetic algorithms, etc.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Research, Trends, Employment
15 points by dira3 13 days ago | 5 comments
An EdTech Tragedy (afterbabel.com)
In The Anxious Generation, we focused on the emergence of the adolescent mental health crisis that began in the early 2010s. However, since the book’s publication one year ago, we have learned even more about worrisome trends in education that closely mirror those in mental health: after decades of stability or gradual improvement, test scores in the U.S. and around the world began declining notably in the 2010s.
Education, Mental Health, Social Issues, Trends
5 points by jruohonen 13 days ago | 0 comments
The Games Industry Is Deprofessionalizing (pushtotalk.gg)
There’s this word I’ve started using to describe what’s happening to the games industry: deprofessionalizing.
Games Industry, Labor, Trends
5 points by 8f2ab37a-ed6c 14 days ago | 0 comments
Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity (infoworld.com)
The Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby languages have slipped from their top 20 positions in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.
Programming Languages, Popularity, Trends
45 points by GTP 18 days ago | 79 comments
12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2025 (ieee.org)
If you read the news about AI, you may feel bombarded with conflicting messages: AI is booming. AI is a bubble. AI’s current techniques and architectures will keep producing breakthroughs. AI is on an unsustainable path and needs radical new ideas. AI is going to take your job. AI is mostly good for turning your family photos into Studio Ghibli-style animated images.
Artificial Intelligence, Predictions, Trends, Technology, Data Visualization
4 points by sohkamyung 25 days ago | 1 comments
Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (simonwillison.net)
Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York Times, Ars Technica, the Guardian and countless online discussions.
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Technology, Trends
5 points by wslh 28 days ago | 0 comments
Cashless society drives drop in children swallowing coins, researchers say (independent.co.uk)
The shift away from using coins has fuelled a drop in children needing surgery to remove objects they have swallowed or stuck up their noses, research suggests.
Health, Society, Trends, Children, Research
11 points by bookofjoe 28 days ago | 20 comments
New Theoretical Research Trends in Cartography (2001) (researchgate.net)
Cartography, Theoretical Research, Trends
47 points by bryanrasmussen 28 days ago | 9 comments
Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish (ia.net)
Year after year, document formats like .docx, .ppt, and pdf lose a little bit of steam. You might not have noticed… But Markdown is growing over and into the old formats, slowly, and nicely, like moss on a stranded star destroyer. Notes on a revolution in slow motion.
Markdown, Document Formats, Technology, Trends
32 points by laurex 28 days ago | 6 comments
Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish (ia.net)
You might not have noticed, but year after year, document formats like .docx, .ppt, and pdf lose a little bit of steam. Markdown is growing over and into the old formats, slowly, and nicely, like moss on a stranded star destroyer. Notes on a revolution in slow motion.
Markdown, Document Formats, Technology, Trends, Writing
11 points by cratermoon 30 days ago | 6 comments
Why is the world losing color? (culture-critic.com)
Walk around in the average parking lot, and you’ll find yourself in a sea of black, white, and silver vehicles. Watch Netflix at home or catch a film in the theaters, and you’ll get the same washed-out color grade on either screen. Glance at the logos of the world’s largest companies, and you’ll notice a shrinking palette.
Design, Culture, Trends, Visual Arts
324 points by trevin 30 days ago | 295 comments
Don't Bother with Vibe Coding (soeren.codes)
Vibe coding is everywhere nowadays, ever since Andrej Kaparthy from OpenAI coined the term on X. Silicon Valley is already jumping on the trend and hiring Vibe Coders. As with a lot of things AI, I think it's a trend that's actively harmful. I'd even go as far as saying that you should reject anyone applying for your startup if they claim to have vibe coding experience.
Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Trends, Opinions
54 points by CER10TY 30 days ago | 130 comments
The case against conversational interfaces (julian.digital)
Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go “This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We’ll only use natural language going forward!”. But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way we always have, until the debate resurfaces a few years later.
User Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Trends
6 points by jger15 36 days ago | 0 comments
Building web apps in 2025 is a bit like assembling IKEA furniture (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Web Development, Software Development, Trends, User Experience
4 points by tosh 36 days ago | 1 comments
The AI Dev Tools Landscape 2025 (ainativedev.io)
Your Guide to the AI Development Ecosystem
Artificial Intelligence, Development Tools, Software, Trends
18 points by destraynor 37 days ago | 4 comments
What Killed Innovation? (shirleywu.studio)
I entered the data visualization field in 2012, when D3.js had just come out and interactive graphics were going through a digital Renaissance.  By the time I was fully steeped in the field in 2016, it felt like a new, experimental project was coming out every week—each one pushing the boundaries of how we think about, visualize, and communicate data.
Data Visualization, Design, Trends, History
127 points by speckx 38 days ago | 112 comments
The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010 (runningshoescore.com)
The year was 2010. “Ke$ha's Tik Tok” was topping the Billboard charts. Steve Jobs has just introduced a goofy new oversized iPhone called an “iPad”. And in running forums across the internet far and wide, hoards of enthusiasts preached the gospel of a new way of running: without shoes.
Running, History, Trends, Culture, 2010s
188 points by jonnycat 38 days ago | 204 comments
5 years after Covid, the return-to-office push is stronger than ever (cnbc.com)
Work, Business, COVID-19, Remote Work, Trends
7 points by alinajan 39 days ago | 0 comments
Cottagecore Programmers (tjmorley.com)
Every programmer I know has at some point longingly expressed how “[they] want to work with [their] hands”. Some say they wish they were a carpenter, some want to be in the fields on a farm, some want to raise chickens, or milk cows. It is however inevitable that I either hear someone say it or agree with it at some point. Often, the sentiment is accompanied by a general dissatisfaction with the impact of the speaker’s work or profession.
Programming, Lifestyle, Trends
121 points by morleytj 39 days ago | 152 comments
Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing? (plausible.io)
Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––what trends are we seeing?
Europe, Trends, Politics, Social Media, Website Traffic
493 points by themeaningist 39 days ago | 612 comments
“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality (cendyne.dev)
There's a trend on social media where many repeat Andrej Karpathy's words (archived): "give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." This belief — like many flawed takes humanity holds — comes from laziness, inexperience, and self-deluding imagination. It is called "Vibe Coding."
Software Development, Trends, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence
221 points by birdculture 41 days ago | 297 comments
Vibe Coding Is a Dangerous Fantasy (nmn.gl)
Last week, X exploded when a “vibe coder” announced his SaaS was under attack.
Software Development, Security, Fantasy, Trends
11 points by namanyayg 42 days ago | 0 comments
Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks) (simonwillison.net)
Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York Times, Ars Technica, the Guardian and countless online discussions.
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Coding, Trends
14 points by ingve 44 days ago | 0 comments