I load the front page, scan for interesting articles. Read 'em, read the comments.
If there's nothing interesting, I leave.
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?
#122I don't understand the "ignoring interesting stuff" bit. I read what's interesting, sometimes finding it by titles but more often by noticing a string of interesting comments on my little desktop display:
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#123I use the front page raw feed.periodically I skim it and then mark all as read.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#124Think about what problem HN solves in your life. To achieve that solution, is it required that you "keep up"? Or does HN serve its purpose in your life when you casually browse some stories once in a while? I suspect that when you think about those questions, you'll realize that it really doesn't matter if you keep up or not. If something comes to this industry that is big enough to impact your actual life, you'll he…
This is the kind of level-headed advice I wish I got from my older brothers.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#125Think about what problem HN solves in your life. To achieve that solution, is it required that you "keep up"? Or does HN serve its purpose in your life when you casually browse some stories once in a while? I suspect that when you think about those questions, you'll realize that it really doesn't matter if you keep up or not. If something comes to this industry that is big enough to impact your actual life, you'll he…
HN notifies us of more problems :(
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#126Think about what problem HN solves in your life. To achieve that solution, is it required that you "keep up"? Or does HN serve its purpose in your life when you casually browse some stories once in a while? I suspect that when you think about those questions, you'll realize that it really doesn't matter if you keep up or not. If something comes to this industry that is big enough to impact your actual life, you'll he…
HN notifies us of more problems :(
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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#127I’ve always used RSS readers for this. It’s just the most efficient way to read. [shameless plug coming] In the last year I have developed an RSS reader optimised for people like me who read MANY feeds, which supports things like auto-expiration of old posts if you can’t keep up. And it’s free. https://feeds.downread.com/signup?i=hn-c-32513232
It would be nice if you could put some screenshots, a demo video, or even an actual demo on the page. There's a lot of news readers out there so I'd like to see what I'd potentially be getting if I do actually use Downread.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#128Earlier 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.
A tool I wrote can do this: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/hacker-news-reader
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
#129I have a proxy for HN which I redirect all HN links to, across all my browsers. It gives me the ability to block users, domains and keywords (with an exception if a post hits a certain threshold). It also removes karma, allows me to mark a post as “done” (i.e. I don’t need to see this again), that sort of thing. Oh and gives me stats too, just for fun.
It’s both cut down my HN time and made what remains far more valuable. I won’t share it, it’s nothing special and nothing that you can’t build yourselves in 30 minutes of prompting.
On a technical level, it works remarkably well. It simply proxies the HTML direct from HN and fiddles with it. I do wonder if it makes my upvotes worthless but I also don’t really care if it does. A browser extension could probably do much of the same but then I’d have to maintain it across Chrome, Safari, etc.
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