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Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

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Post by Leftium »

My HN client has made HN easier to keep up with, even before AI: https://hn.leftium.com

I call it "Seeking Orange" because interesting posts are highlighted. Features include:

- Point/comment counts become increasingly more orange with higher counts (50+, 100+)

- Orange accent bar on left indicates new items since last visit

- Support for several different feeds including: HckrNews (chronological front page appearance time), Classic Stories, Best Stories, Active Stories

- Thresholds to de-emphasize posts from users with low karma/recent creation dates: https://hn.leftium.com/newest?min_karma=500&min_age_years=5

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

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Post by nreece »

romaniitedomum wrote: post #14

Same way as always. Open the page, glance down it to see if there's anything that interests me, hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from. Lather, rinse, repeat. But I'm guessing you have more of a FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) kind of problem, which admittedly I don't have. However, you could look at something using RSS, maybe in combination with an agent told to find and show articles based on som…

> hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from

I don't thing 'hide' applies to the domain of the post, but only the post itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#:~:text=What%20do%...

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

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Post by vaylian »

Depends on what your goals are. If you want to be well-informed for the nerdy water-cooler talk in the office kitchen, then you need to read a lot. Otherwise, just don't worry about it, because important topics get re-posted. If you missed something the first time, then you still have good chances to catch it the second or third time.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

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Post by nitros »

pmdr wrote: post #26

> open HN > ignore all posts about MCP > ignore all posts containing "agent" > also ignore everything frontier labs bragged about hacking this week > ignore AI psychosis posts praised as being the future > check out everything else > close HN

I find I've not read HN as much over the last two years due to this. I think I see one interesting article a day at most now.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

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Post by m4tthumphrey »

nreece wrote: post #32
romaniitedomum wrote: post #14

Same way as always. Open the page, glance down it to see if there's anything that interests me, hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from. Lather, rinse, repeat. But I'm guessing you have more of a FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) kind of problem, which admittedly I don't have. However, you could look at something using RSS, maybe in combination with an agent told to find and show articles based on som…

> hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from I don't thing 'hide' applies to the domain of the post, but only the post itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#:~:text=What%20do%...

I imagine OP knows but uses the domain to hide the article based on his own instinct/history with said domain.
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