I scan HN once in the morning and before going to sleep. I save interesting links to pocket and then listen to them at 1.5x speed during my commute or free time. BTW Pocket's TTS has definitely gotten better now barring a few obvious errors. The experience is largely good.
Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
#22I use hn.algolia, if there's some topic I am interested in searching there usually fives me the most relevant HN link
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
#23I ignore most of it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
#24I've created a slack channel and configured an RSS reader that periodically sends new posts to that channel. I find it quite useful because it is push model rather than pull, which avoids switching context just to check if there is anything interesting. Another positive thing posts remain in the slack which allows sharing, threading, pinning, favouriting, searching etc.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
#25Firefox mostly, but I get what you are asking for. Ultimately my brain, I know I should bookmark more great links, but I guess in the end I just hope I remember them. Besides that, just have my own forked merge of exolymph's and m4tthumphrey's replies. As in another discussion, it's just part of life.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16338723 . If it wasn't HN, it would be slashdot, or ars, or medium, or searchi…
Excuse me for replying to myself, but on a different topic. What ever happened to bookmarklets?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
#26I 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.
Newsblur - https://www.newsblur.com/ -- been using it since Google Reader was discontinued and never looked back!
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
#27In the morning, I get a coffee and open up all the interesting articles into tabs on hckrnews.com, which I then stack (using Vivaldi browser).
I'll go through these tabs during the day when I need a break or have some downtime. The HN tab stack is helpful because I know the other open tabs have something to do with work.
If I'm intrigued by what I read in the article, I'll read comments on HN, but often I completely ignore them.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
#28I ignore most of the articles posted. I get this intuitive "itch to read" when I see an interesting topic and that is a sufficient filter to me. It's not like this is important, anyway, it's mostly only news and blogposts :)
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
#29A life-long practice from lower-tier websites like Reddit of seeing way too much content go past to ever try and catch up with everything. When I was young and 9gag came to existence I remember being able of seeing everything that was posted by checking it out once a day. I learned to give up back then, and now on a vastly more interesting website like HN I enjoy finding interesting bits every day but don't expect to know about everything that happened.
Re: Ask HN: How do you manage to go through so much of good content posted on HN?
#30Okay this might get weird.
I was (am) kind of perfectionist. So I used to feel pressured by the sheer amount of content and feeling what I was missing. I have been doing mindfulness for a month now and it has helped me come to terms with this overload of information.
Now, I don't get bogged by the fact that I missed reading something. Previously I used to read every topic possible - cryptocurrency, finance, technology, blog posts or writeups - even about technology which I am sure I am never going to work on. Now I focus on stuff that really matter to me - finance (mainly personal finance) and technology. Others, like politics etc I simply ignore.