3,800 Developers Voted to Ban AI Comments on Hacker News

Hacker News recently prohibited AI-generated comments, with 3,800 developers voting in favor. The rule is short. No extensive policy document. No AI identification software. Only one sentence appended to the site guidelines, and the largest developer forum online made a decision. "Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans." Here's Why This Matters HN receives millions of monthly visitors comprising developers, founders, and scientists. However, the comment section was the most important aspect of the site, not the posted links - it was the comments themselves. This year many users started realizing something. They saw comments that seem polished, yet empty. Paragraphs with perfect structure, but no creativity. Writing where every sentence begins with "It's worth noting" or "To be fair." Users had been reporting it for months. There was a post a few weeks before the guidelines adjusted that was titled HN is drowning in AI comments . Frust