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I continue my pointless quest to keep track of how much of Hackernews is AI. Here's the map of the daily top 5 for April.
This one was weird: the month started with a crazy density of AI stories, then a week of near-complete silence (red arrow). I wonder if this was a wacky coincidence or a moderation experiment. Either way, it reverted to the old baseline after that.
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