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

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Post by dgellow »

unified101 wrote: post #75
smugglerFlynn wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s just that the overlap between “people who find AI coding fascinating” and the guy you are replying to is zero. Not everyone finds this means to an end AI treadmill even remotely ‘fun’. Resent studies show that this not even a minor group of people. Here are some hints for you: The UC Berkeley Study (2026): Researchers coined the term "The AI Treadmill Effect". They found that because AI fills knowledge gaps, wor…

I agree, and empathize. But it does not answer my question. Your answer broadly is: we can be sad, I was hoping for a directive response from my parent commenter, specially towards AI at work coding. Or are they recommending revolution?

Could you reformulate your actual question? It’s not too clear what type of answer you’re looking for

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

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Post by unified101 »

dgellow wrote: post #81
unified101 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, and empathize. But it does not answer my question. Your answer broadly is: we can be sad, I was hoping for a directive response from my parent commenter, specially towards AI at work coding. Or are they recommending revolution?

Could you reformulate your actual question? It’s not too clear what type of answer you’re looking for

> No one wants to read stuff produced by AI or for people using AI.

My question: So what should we do at work?

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

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Post by chrismorgan »

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

You could convert this into content blocker filters for the likes of uBlock Origin:

  news.ycombinator.com##.submission:has([href^="https://example.com/"]),.submission:has([href^="https://example.com/"])+tr,.submission:has([href^="https://example.com/"])+tr+.spacer
(You can append `:style(color:orange)` or such to apply a different style instead of hiding, if you want to be able to hit the hide link in order to get a new thirtieth item—though you could automate that by writing a user script instead.)

Or user stylesheets (I use Stylus in Firefox to manage such things):

  .submission:has([href="from?site=example.com"]) {
      &, & + tr, & + tr + .spacer {
          display: none;
      }
  }
(I showed two different selectors: [href^="https://example.com/"] will match the complete origin, [href="from?site=example.com"] will match the domain as presented by HN, including any subdomains.)

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

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Post by throw0101a »

dvrp wrote: post #59

I don't. Most things don't matter. Like the news, you'll find out; except it'll be through Slack channels or co-workers or maybe even IRC channels, as opposed to HN. > Oh, X company got hacked and you are in the cybersecurity circle? > You'll find out. > Oh, AI is the new thing? > You'd be better without that. > B-but what if I want to understand topic T? > Then I'd tell you that HN offers free fast search and you ca…

> I don't. Most things don't matter.

I use RSS and I skip most articles. But even then there is a backlog of unread stuff I want to get to "eventually" (just like my to-read list on my library account, which is way long).

But if my news aggregator (NNN) gets restarted, and I loose some of the unread stuff, I don't sweat it.

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

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Post by childintime »

I find HN changed quite a bit in recent months. More kids looking to chit chat, instead of the post-once-no-reply culture I was used to. It's becoming tiresome. HN needs to hide the draining comments from everyone that isn't in the thread.

I also see the dead comments. Often there are good comments.. which I sadly can't upvote, but there's been a big uptick of the abrasive or nauseating kind. That used to be very rare!

So yeah, I worry about the future of HN.

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

#88

Post by ryandrake »

dgellow wrote: post #78
m4tthumphrey wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It would actually be nice to be able to hide based on domains

Or even title keyword. Block [AI, Claude, Anthropic, OpenAI, Codex, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen] and enjoy a clean, pleasant HN.

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

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Post by ajdude »

I live out of my RSS reader for everything from YouTube to Reddit, and in this case I leverage this feed for the HN front page:

   https://hnrss.org/frontpage
The front page of HN has always been pretty good at filtering out AI generated articles (and if one makes it it's usually flagged by the time I get to it). Then I just glance through the list of articles that made it to the front page and decide which ones I want to read.

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

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Post by crossroadsguy »

Very quick scans - as it always has been. Very flippant and cynical and carefree/less about anything others post here or I post than I used to (and that wasn't a lot to begin with). So this has changed.

What changed more? I rarely read an article now. Rarely! I don't feel like it and whenever I bother it's just not worth it. That has been the biggest shift for me.

In last year or so (or more), hn has become almost 100% monotonous. So much that it is distasteful.

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