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

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Post by deepakkarki »

harigov wrote: post #117
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.

Thank you for the feedback! By a dark design, do you mean like a toggle of sorts - b/w a white dominant and a dark dominant UI? Or completely switch to a dark UI?

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

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Post by dchuk »

harigov wrote: post #118
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!

Both great suggestions! I think the weighting will be dependent on getting more engagement on the site overall, which is a tricky thing early on, but working on it!

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

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Post by deepakkarki »

micael_dias wrote: post #116
deepakkarki wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hey, Thanks for the advise! This was in the pipeline, but wasn't sure that the app itself would be useful to people (and was hence reconsidering working any further on it). But it looks like it is something people seem to be liking, so I think I'll go ahead and do that :)

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

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Post by Balgair »

Mind if I turn the question upside-down? What would be features of a site that you would like for news?

In browsing the comments:

Personalization is super important. How would that be defined? How personal? How impersonal?

'Signal-to-noise' is important. What does that mean for you? What is signal? Do you know before hand? Can you rank a few items that are more 'signal' than 'noise'? What is noise? Does that vary from day to day for you?

Addiction is important. What is 'addictive' to you? Is that a good thing during some parts of the day and not others? Do you want your nephews to have access to that addictive news service? Do you want ot have a 'stop it' button to stop yourself?

New content is important. How new? What is content to you? What type of medium, like videos or text? A mix of many media? What languages and from what countries?

Any other ideas/important things to grep from this comments section?

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

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Post by chasely »

I subscribe to The Browser [1] and Audm [2], which are both story aggregators. The editors pick higher-quality, often longer-form writing. Audm provides articles read by audiobook narrators, and I've found it a good alternative to podcasts.

Both of these will email you with recommendations so the discovery "work" it outsourced.

[1] https://thebrowser.com/ [2] https://www.audm.com/

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

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Post by chasely »

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…

If you have a lot of people you follow on Twitter, Nuzzel [1] can be useful. Basically, if people you follow are sharing the same article, it will get highlighted by the app.

[1] http://nuzzel.com/

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

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Post by tgb »

rufb wrote: post #77
tgb wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is HN Explain?

A satire page that reviews HN's weekly top posts in a very condescending manner (the humor to me very much welcome but you may be put off by it)

Is this it? http://n-gate.com/hackernews/

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

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Post by harigov »

deepakkarki wrote: post #121
harigov wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thank you for the feedback! By a dark design, do you mean like a toggle of sorts - b/w a white dominant and a dark dominant UI? Or completely switch to a dark UI?

Yeah, even a toggle works. But the design, in general, doesn't look appealing to my eyes. You can have a very plain design, which neither attracts nor distracts, but if you have a design that is distracting, it's hard to take it seriously.

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

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Post by mathperson »

jonathansizz wrote: post #112
kthejoker2 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I also recommend war college by reuters http://www.reuters.com/podcasts/war-college
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