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Any specific technique or tool you use to manage all this content?
First, realize you don't need (or can't) known everything. There's too much content out there. You'll get overloaded and burn out.
Not everything is useful to you. Sure, it's always good to read about things outside one's bubble to get new insights, but that will occur naturally if you're a curious person. Fight that urge.
After trying to minimize the amount of things that go into your to-read bucket, you'll notice you still have too much to read. Filter again and be okay with missing something. When you actually have an issue in front of you, you'll know how to find the solution. No need to cram everything into your brain.
I don't have a technique to manage all this content. I've been working on the opposite. Here are some disconnected thoughts. First, realize you don't need (or can't) known everything. There's too much content out there. You'll get overloaded and burn out. Not everything is useful to you. Sure, it's always good to read about things outside one's bubble to get new insights, but that will occur naturally if you're a cur…
Yes, this is key. You just have to accept that there is vastly more interesting material in the world than you can ever possibly digest. Then be very discerning about what you pick.
I am medically handicapped. I spend a lot of time convalescing. HN helps minimize the degree to which I go stir crazy while doing so.
I don't recommend it as a method.
I know from long experience that the assumption is that those doing a lot of X are overachievers to be emulated and their perceived accomplishments to be aspired to. Such perceptions aren't necessarily accurate.
Depending on how much time I have, I filter by Top 10 / Top 20 or "All posts".
In the grand scheme of things, most of the 'good' content really is not that good. It might be interesting - or more interesting that what you should be working on, but a year from now most of it will be irrelevant.
You can save a lot of time by ignoring it.