Right, but my point was about what they said about the use-case. They couldn't have been coming here for AI news since 2017. So did they finally find their use-case for HN some 2 years ago?
If they were indeed coming here before AI revolution, it was a different type of medium.
I have always used HN for consuming tech news. I was trying to say that these days, I really love following the developments in AI and among the most erudite audience for that can be found here, which is great.
You extrapolated that to assuming that AI news was my only use case.
Am saying that a lot of us like HN the way it is, and the way it has evolved organically into a firehose of AI news.
Tbh if you are long enough on hn, quite a lot of stuff gets repeated over and over.
AI gets 'that much' tracktion because it is right now the fastest changing technology we have and with the biggest impact day-to-day for a lot of people on hn.
The CVEs from the last few month? Normal topic for hn, it became an AI toopic because AI found them.
But you can get that from some AI-specific sources, it doesn't have to be HN. That's the point, this medium used to be much more universal.
It also means you're new here, because that's not what HN was until quite recently, so your use-case wouldn't work.