The answer, as always, is to write a compelling story about it, and make the front page of ‘new’.

I think it is true with any distribution channel. When people figure out that it works, then everyone ends up bombarding that channel till it saturates.

Vibe coding is not helping either, I guess. Now it is even cheaper to create assets for the distribution channel.

I think same thing happened with product hunt.

> Show HN of course isn't dead. You could even say it's more alive than ever.

You could argue it's dead in the sense of "dead internet theory". Yes, more projects than ever are being submitted, but they were not created by humans. Maybe they are being submitted by humans, for now.

I don’t agree with this drowning sentiment. It’s much easier now to build capable stuff. That’s what the data is showing you. Pre AI nostalgia - sure, I built a PPC profiler in assembly by hand, but who am I to say the latest AI induced gadgetry is not as cool. And I am an active participant.

Funny to see this above four Show HNs right now

Instead of Show HN, it should be Show HN Progress.

And the comments should start with the day/month the project was first launched.

Show HN is now the equivalent of "Look at me!" on Instrgram, Tik-Tok. Graph submissions that start "Show HN:I " and or just "I ". There's 2 on the top 30 right now. Go back 10 years and they were much less as a percentage of all posts.

"Show HN: ... that I vibe coded" is a language pattern that NLP trainers will give you to make yourself invisible.

Crazy idea, but maybe change the rules of Show HN so that you are required to include in the headline how long you have been working on the project. As an example, something like:

Show HN: My Project - A description for my vibe coded project [3 weeks]

A lot of the good stuff I see on Show HN are projects that have been worked on for a long time. While I understand that vibe coding is newer trend, I also know that vibe coded projects are less likely to stand the test of time. With this, we don't have to worry about whether a project is AI assisted or not, nor do we ban it. Instead just incentivize longer term projects. If the developer lies about how long they worked on the project, they will get reported and downvoted into oblivion.

It's not just Show HN. Other parts of HN are drowning too.