There is an Ask HN thread on the front page today asking whether Hacker News can “please limit the AI news flood”. To be fair to its author, this is not a request to ban AI. The complaint is that AI stories take up so much of the front page that interesting hardware, open-source projects and ordinary programming work never escape the newest page. Attention is finite; one story surfacing means another one does not. Could Hacker News put its thumb on the scale and make room for the rest of technology again?