Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read?

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Post by stralep » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 6:12 PM UTC

duck wrote: post #16

patio11 wrote: post #8

Depends on the day. On days when I'm both not at a consulting site and don't hit flow early in the day, I'll cop to "all of them that I find interesting, and some of the ones that I might not but which had good comments."

I wish there was a way to see what stories you (and a few other HN members) found interesting. That would help me build out my weekly Hacker Newsletter!

But it should be optional for users to show or not to show their comments.

Or you could make scraper for saved stories, and ask few people you are interested in to scrap their stories.

Re: Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read?

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Post by po » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 6:40 PM UTC

duck wrote: post #16

patio11 wrote: post #8

Depends on the day. On days when I'm both not at a consulting site and don't hit flow early in the day, I'll cop to "all of them that I find interesting, and some of the ones that I might not but which had good comments."

I wish there was a way to see what stories you (and a few other HN members) found interesting. That would help me build out my weekly Hacker Newsletter!

With Patrick, you can do pretty well by just seeing what he's commenting on:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11

Re: Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read?

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Post by AndrewDucker » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 8:07 PM UTC

I read it through the RSS feed at

http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A...

which includes the text of the article in the feed. So I read the ones that interest me right then and there, and then open the link to read the comments afterwards.

Re: Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read?

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Post by kelnos » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 9:34 PM UTC

Oof, not sure any of the options fit me well enough. Of those that interest me, I probably read about 80% in full, 15% I start reading, but find I'm not actually as interested as I thought, and the last 5% I might just look at the HN comments.

I usually (but not always) read the HN comments. Depending on my familiarity with the subject (based on the headline), I may read through the comments before reading the article. But I might not.

Re: Poll: Of the HN articles that interest you, what percent do you read?

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Post by ultrasaurus » Thu, Aug 04, 2011, 7:13 AM UTC

po wrote: post #22

duck wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there was a way to see what stories you (and a few other HN members) found interesting. That would help me build out my weekly Hacker Newsletter!

With Patrick, you can do pretty well by just seeing what he's commenting on: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11

That's what I do, I have a script that basically generates an RSS feed of comments by people I find interesting and read the articles that they leave positive comments on.