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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?

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Post by ochronus »

greenmana wrote: post #15
ochronus wrote: post #7

I also use Pocket - each evening I go through my RSS reader (HN is included) and click what looks interesting, I skim the article (10 secs) and if it indeed looks interesting/useful/valuable I save it to Pocket and I add a label. Labels help me to revisit Pocket in a more systematic way and I also re-filter Pocket from time to time.

Can you or anyone recommend some good RSS readers these days? Thanks.

I'm a pretty much happy user of Feedly

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?

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Post by danellis »

Why do you think you need to finish all of it? There is a lot of content out there that you haven't seen, and I presume you don't worry about that. The fact that some of it has been posted to HN shouldn't mean that not seeing it suddenly becomes a problem.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?

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Post by YouKnowBetter »

exolymph wrote: post #3

I mainly read the comments, rarely the articles themselves. (That's not to say that I don't read articles in general — I do, but I mostly find them via Twitter.) Usually, I'm much more interested in what the community has to say about a given topic or issue than I am about the object-level news.

The quality of the comments might make me read the article, but that is 1 in 10. I admire the fast groups of subjectmatterexperts who will quickly prais or debunk the content of the articles and post links that are even more interesting.

Further, I use https://theoldreader.com to subscribe to the RSS feed, makes all my "monitoring" a lot easier.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?

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Post by rayalez »

Consider subscribing to the weekly email newsletter of the most upvoted posts [1], or finetune an RSS feed [2] (you can filter posts with 100+ upvotes for example, or only Show HN posts, or whatever).

If you're using mastodon, you can follow my HackerNewsBot [3], or the same thing on twitter [4].

[1] https://hndigest.com/

[2] https://hnrss.org/

[3] https://mastodon.social/@HackerNewsBot

[4] https://twitter.com/newsyc100

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?

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Post by usrme »

I also use Pocket, but when the list grows to be too big (around 10 items or so) then I will not consume any more articles by way of Feedly or Hacker News until the list is groomed.

I find this to work well for me as I have an incentive to keep my Pocket empty or at the very least not overwhelmingly filled.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?

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Post by galfarragem »

jvzr wrote: post #17
exolymph wrote: post #3

I mainly read the comments, rarely the articles themselves. (That's not to say that I don't read articles in general — I do, but I mostly find them via Twitter.) Usually, I'm much more interested in what the community has to say about a given topic or issue than I am about the object-level news.

Same. I use hckrnews.com to have an up-to-date list of recent topics discussed on HN, quickly skim it for headlines that stand out, but mostly focusing on highly-commented posts (50+ when in the morning, 20+ later on in the day), and I read comments first.

I would also add:

http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ (HN daily top 10 links archived since 2010)

https://hnews.xyz/ (HN with thumbnails -> deeper HN skimming)

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?

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Post by mkbkn »

I made an IFTTT recipe that would email me the links to the HN story based on specific keywords in its title like "learn", "how to", "books" etc. And I check my emails mostly once a day, so by the time I click the link in the email, most of the time, I would find a good number of quality comments to read and enjoy.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?

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Post by latte »

I use the RSS feeds (https://hnrss.org/) for the HN front page and also for the Show HN (I find the average quality of all Show HNs to be surprisingly high - ever of those that don't make it to the front page).

To read the feed, I use Feedly, that fetches pictures from the linked pages that sometimes give a bit more context about the submissions.

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