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

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Post by deepakkarki »

AlbertoGP wrote: post #132
deepakkarki wrote: post #121

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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?

I would propose something like this to start with: https://demo.sentido-labs.com/proposal/discoverdev/ That's just a .dark class in the body tag: input').onchange()"> ...a switch at the top right: dark ...and a bit of CSS: https://demo.sentido-labs.com/proposal/discoverdev/dark.css I also find the yellow-on-white links in your Twitter theme difficult to read.

Oh wow! super cool :) Thank you for putting in the work for the demo! Really appreciate it.

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

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Post by lukaszkups »

I've reduced my twitter followers to 15 - I follow only these accounts who are sources of new content that belongs to my interests - all of friends and other accounts has been moved to twitter lists.

I've follow @newsync150 - a HN feed that tweets about threads that has +150 points. If there's a day where I feel unsatisfied with amount of content, I go straight to first 1-2 pages of HN and read what seems interesting.

I also follow some inspiration accounts, such ash TheUltralinx etc. and local (Polish) Tech websites - don't really like TechCrunch or Wired - they're focused too much on business side or things that I'm not interested in.

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

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Post by markusweimar »

I’m using my own site redigest.it (https://www.redigest.it/), which is a configurable digest for HN and Reddit. It’s nice not to miss anything relevant without regularly checking these sites and to easily limit how much content I see.

In addition, I’m following the work of specific people regardless of where they publish (e.g. their own website or YouTube, mostly by RSS). I find the signal to noise ratio to be higher than on HN and Reddit. Discovery also happens via linking, endorsements, collaborations, recommendation algorithms (e.g. YouTube).

Sites like HN and Reddit seem to reinforce daily routines to not miss out, which is exactly what I’m trying to avoid. I’m also questioning how effective the popular voting systems of these sites are in bringing content to the top that I find relevant. This is probably the main reason why my content consumption shifted away from them.

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

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Post by thirdsun »

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…

> I built this site: https://engineered.at

Looks great. In fact, and I like HN's simplicity, it makes me realize how much better, cleaner, and more readable HN could look with a few minor design tweaks and better spacing.

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

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Post by thirdsun »

tgb wrote: post #128
rufb wrote: post #77

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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/

If it is, it's actually quite funny and well written. Thanks for the link.

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

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Post by kerbalspacepro »

npsimons wrote: post #85
stefek99 wrote: post #18

OFFTOPIC: avoid it at all cost. Energy, time, attention, focus = the most valuable resources out there. Valuable content will find you anyway.

> avoid it at all cost. Energy, time, attention, focus = the most valuable resources out there. "Attention is scarce. Information is not. Do the math." That being said, I've found valuable book recommendations here on HN and other select boards. I've found that switching from short-form reading, videos and podcasts to longer form reading not only leaves me feeling happier, but is also far superior for quality of info…

I disagree. There are two types of content consumption/creation in the modern age. There is "flow" and "stores". Flow of content creation/consumption is seen in Twitter feeds or quickly updated blogs. This content isn't meant to last a long time, but corrects and updates minor facts about the world. In other words, it is good to allow quick Bayesian updating of your worldview.

The other type, "storage" of content through creation/consumption is through books, static webpages, or other historical sets of information. This is important because instead of updating former beliefs to be more true, it tends to open up vistas of information.

You can't function without either. As in all things, moderation is the key. Moderation is easiest if you set limits. For example, never set a "flow rate" thats higher than your consumption rate. So, if you use Twitter, make sure that you aren't following 1000 people. Be very careful. If you use an RSS reader, make sure that your feeds update at a reasonable rate (I give myself ~30 minutes in the morning to read them).

The same with books! Don't get sucked into the cult-of-reading. It is a cult, and reading "books" isn't actually useful unless you have a structured or semi-structured reading plan.

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

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Post by john_mack »

I built Virwire to auto curate news from thousands of sources worldwide 24/7.

https://virwire.com

Original motivation was to to scratch my own itch for news. I found I was spending far too much time foraging for content so decided to automate discovery and relevance filtering. The app is web based but formatted for mobile.

The story stream is increasingly global, random and tolerant of competing biases, I hope a new way to experience news and see the world.

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