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Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by youzesix »

HN and Reddit mostly, friends/colleagues

I've been wrestling with this issue, though.

If I'm being honest, I still love RSS feeds, but I'm unhappy with all the implementations.

What I want to be able to do is seed an RSS reader with a set of sites I want to be aware of, and then have it recommend other sites and stories based on what I give it, maybe even pull in random things from time to time. I want to read what I'm interested in, but also to be made aware of things I wouldn't otherwise because of the myopia that kind of comes from a human left to their own devices.

I haven't found anything quite like that. What I have found has either (1) is great at letting me customize it, but then doesn't suggest anything, or (2) suggests crap I'm not interested in at all, or (3) has some other problem, like eating up bandwidth with no way to control it.

It seems like you could take an open-source RSS reader and slap some sort of p2p recommender system on top...

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by jonathansizz »

kthejoker2 wrote: post #98
jonathansizz wrote: post #32

I gave up on Twitter, as even after massive ongoing curation the signal/noise is far too low. There's no way to filter tweets from sources I'm following, and it's a constant source of anxiety leading to compulsive reloading of the feed. Other social networks are worse. Life's too short for this. I've also cut down on the web sources I follow, as information overload is a real thing, and we rapidly run into diminishin…

What international affairs podcasts do you listen to? It's an area I would like more analytical insights into.

CFR (the publishers of Foreign Affairs) have The World Next Week and The President's Inbox (and other more specialized ones)

Carnegie Endowment does The Carnegie Podcast

FT has World Weekly

BBC (e.g. Global News, Newshour, The Inquiry), NPR and PRI (e.g. America Abroad) all have a few to try out, and CSIS also have a good one. Universities like Oxford and Harvard have their own podcasts as well.

Try them all and pick your favourites. I just listen to CFR and Carnegie these days.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by crucio »

I've built Anders Pink (https://anderspink.com) to help with content discovery. It allows you to follow topics just by entering a search term, or by creating something more specific (e.g. must contain term X, but not term Y). New articles get pulled in every few hours, and get emailed to you every morning in a digest.

It also allows you to pull in content from rss feeds, then filter it. There's boards to save articles to, and team features to allow collaboration if needed.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

Before I settle into a day of staring at screens, I like to listen to the news on the BBC World Service[1] (it's an old habit, I used to listen to it via shortwave years ago), as I find most of the news outlets in the US lacking.

1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_world_service

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by micael_dias »

deepakkarki wrote: post #81
dchuk wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are you handling the tagging on this? By hand, 3rd party service, algorithm?

Most of it is automated using some basic ML foo. you can read our about page for more info. All posts go through manual quality check and retagging if necessary!

Advice: probably someone visiting will be interested in a few tags only so a filter by tag would be useful.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by harigov »

deepakkarki wrote: post #11

I had the same problem of finding interesting blogs to read, so made a side project - https://www.discoverdev.io Curated and tagged list of top engineering blog articles everyday! Do check it out :)

I love the idea but the design needs some work. If you can also display a quick summary and time to read an article, that would improve our reading efficiency quite a bit. That, and of course, dark design.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by harigov »

dchuk wrote: post #66

I built this site: https://engineered.at It's like HN, but powered by hundreds of startup tech/engineering blog feeds. It pulls in some really good stuff! Not a lot of users yet, just barely getting it going so far, let me know what you think. EDIT: Lots more planned for this site, just only able to spend free time on it: 1. Following users/messaging them privately 2. Notifications when users reply to you, follow you…

That's a great idea and something that I would love to use. You should probably give some weight to blogs known for kick-ass engineering so that they surface up lot more. That would be a good way to seed articles to this service. Also, you need dark mode!

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by myth_drannon »

qorrect wrote: post #73
ice109 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the arxiv tip is a very good one indeed

You might also like http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/

Looks amazing, thanks!

Is there HN for arxiv papers?(I saw the parent link has top hype sections, but it's not the same)

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by dabockster »

jonathansizz wrote: post #32

I gave up on Twitter, as even after massive ongoing curation the signal/noise is far too low. There's no way to filter tweets from sources I'm following, and it's a constant source of anxiety leading to compulsive reloading of the feed. Other social networks are worse. Life's too short for this. I've also cut down on the web sources I follow, as information overload is a real thing, and we rapidly run into diminishin…

> even after massive ongoing curation the signal/noise is far too low

Agreed. Even with programs like TweetDeck that can apply some basic filtering, you're still left with a bunch of junk content. (And the UX of TweetDeck is terrible in my opinion, but that's best left for another post.)

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