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📣 piratesAndSons

Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric?


It seems to me that Show HN is filled with low-effort see-what-I-prompted-Claude posts—no innovation, no real creation, just yet another copy of a copy. If you’re going to prompt an LLM, at least come up with something original, not the millionth text editor.

  👤 minimaxir Accepted Answer ✓
Define "low-effort". I recently posted two Show HNs that were mostly written with Claude Code, but overall each took more man hours than my typical (less-ambitious) projects. Reception to both was positive.

> Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543359

> Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682115

👤 forgotpwd16
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702099

But seems, as others have also noted, although the mean quality decreases, the quality of those reaching front page increases.

That said port/clones have always been trendy. What has joined their ranks is the significant amount of what are essentially minimal prompt wrappers.