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August 14, 2023

Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (August 14, 2023)

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        <h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
        <p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for August 14, 2023 :</p>

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Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange

https://www.thediff.co/archive/inside-the-decline-of-stack-exchange/

Summary: Stack Exchange, a popular Q&A platform for programmers, has experienced a decline in usage due to the rise of AI models. The platform's user base consists of people asking programming questions and those providing answers. However, with AI models ingesting programming-specific data from Stack Exchange, the need for human interaction has decreased. The decline is evident in Google Trends data, showing a significant drop in Stack Exchange's popularity.

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Analysis of the data job market using HN job posts

https://emiruz.com/post/2023-08-12-data-jobs/

Summary: Emir's blog analyzed HackerNews "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" posts from 2013 to 2023 to understand trends in the data job market. The analysis suggests that the Data Scientist role is likely in long-term decline, with skills like data mining and visualization becoming less popular. The responsibilities of Data Scientists seem to be eroding due to better-defined roles like ML Engineer and Data Engineer. ML Engineer roles have seen a sustained increase in demand, now on par with Data Scientist roles but trending in the opposite direction.

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