Wondering why it's not renamed AI news, yet.
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?
#92I 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…
Came here to say the same thing. I'd like to add that keeping up has also become very boring. It's always the same news - AI this AI that, I would like to see something new.
I wrote a browser extension to automatically click the Hide link for stories containing AI keywords. It helps keep the boring stuff off the front page. https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#93I built a Firefox extension that allows me to track comments.
When I see an interesting topic, I will read through the comments. If I see a good comment, I add it to plzat.me (it adds a little @ symbol next to the comment actions).
That "subscribes" to that comment, so I get an email update if anyone replies to it.
And, then I have a little dashboard which collects all the comments I've subscribed to by the topic. I review those topics and can cycle through the comments to remind myself about interesting things.
plzat.me is basically a bookmarking tool, but with email updates of the threads, and a customized dashboard which makes it easier to review recent bookmarks.
Firefox extensions work on mobile so I use this from my phone and desktop and the subscriptions are synced.
It uses pocketbase as the backend.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#94HN is good toilet time. I lurked here for a long time before I created this account.
The discussion was always kind of lame, very much like Reddit but full of people that really enjoy the smell of their own farts.
The upside is that I still find bookmarkable links here and there, both in threads and in comments.
Before and after AI, it nothing changed much in terms of overall quality.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#95Same 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…
I miss the greasemonkey days, but copying scripts between machines became annoying, and I don't think it ever worked on mobile.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#96The weekly newsletter is a great way to get the most important information: https://hackernewsletter.com/
By far the best solution. I find the curation to be top notch. You get an archive in your mail box. Quite useful to me because there can be moments I consume hn in unhealthy ways and other times where I don’t consult hn for months. So, with the hn newsletter, I can learn what happened during the time I was off the grid.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I’ve implemented something like that at https://hn-ai.org/.
It at least filters out some of the slop articles, making it easier to find the potentially interesting stories.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#98I come for the comments, not for the news. Signal to noise is lower these days (AI stuff), but I aggressively filter out subjects I have zero interest in.
>simple solution of simply ignoring
If you mean ignoring manually, that's not sustainable.
On the desktop side, I skim through HN through a self-hosted install of NewsBlur RSS, all my RSS feeds live there, including HN, Reddit, etc., that has a nice training/filtering facility [0]. NewsBlur has accompanying apps that can be pointed at your own install. If you don't want to bother with that, you can pay for it. I run it on cheap OVH instance.
On mobile, I use the Hack app [1]. The iOS version works on the Mac as well.
[0] https://www.newsblur.com [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc-reader... (iOS, but it's also on the Play Store, look for "HACK for Hacker News YC Reader").
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or even title keyword. Block [AI, Claude, Anthropic, OpenAI, Codex, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen] and enjoy a clean, pleasant HN.
I’ve implemented something like that at https://hn-ai.org/ . It at least filters out some of the slop articles, making it easier to find the potentially interesting stories.
2 of the top 3 posts are currently AI-topical. Might need to expand the heuristic
That said, I like it, and have bookmarked.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
I miss the greasemonkey days, but copying scripts between machines became annoying, and I don't think it ever worked on mobile.
Works on Firefox for Android.