Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by cadamsdotcom » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 9:17 AM UTC

You might like a little RSS proxy I vibed purely to let me browse HN and Lobsters' RSS feeds offline. It reads in the articles and comments and serves them up in a new feed you subscribe to instead of the original.

RSS is amazing and being able to zip through your feed without waiting for pages to load is a game changer on top.

https://github.com/cadamsdotcom/offlinerss

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

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Post by conorcleary » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 9:55 AM UTC

tclover wrote: post #126

conorcleary wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN notifies us of more problems :(

Disable all notifications

Nah I mean as a feed of things going wrong in the world

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

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Post by taf2 » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 2:44 PM UTC

a quick scan of tech things once or twice daily helps pass the time in boring situations and also catch me up on the latest

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

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Post by vondragon » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

mostly async thru hndigest.com (daily) and hackernewsletter.com (weekly)

Knowing that I have the emails in my inbox at any time helps eliminate FOMO

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

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Post by the__alchemist » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC

I'm about to write a browser plugin to (coarsely) filter out LLm-written articles, and superficial articles about LLMs. There are great articles and discussions here, but are buried in these which make finding them a task.

It is also interesting noting the Hiring posts (see the jobs link). Almost all are generic AI derivative companies.

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

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Post by NishanStepak » Sun, Aug 16, 2026, 11:08 PM UTC

I check the site and scan what the site has to offer. The traditional Evelyn Wood Speed reading method is about 4x as fast as regular reading.

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

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Post by codst » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 9:37 AM UTC

I’m new here. I found this place clear, fast and away from internet trendy culture, but it will be hard for me to get comfortable with it.

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

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Post by arvind_devaraj » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC

I built https://ai-epoch.pages.dev/ that curates AI related news from hackernews.

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

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Post by jcubic » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 4:54 PM UTC

I've created a tool called Mutimon:

https://github.com/jcubic/mutimon

I got an email about the latest news in my inbox.

I've set a threshold of > 250 points + extra for Ask HN

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

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Post by cableshaft » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 8:04 PM UTC

I don't keep up with it anymore. It used to be a 3+ times daily habit, now it's mainly just when I think about it (which could be several days, or more), and I barely check more than a couple of threads now and then move on, usually.

I don't feel like I'm getting as much from coming here as I used to, so it's mostly just idle curiosity now.

Part of that might be just because of me, too, as I shift more to letting Claude do more of the heavy lifting, reading a bunch of technical articles seems less useful to me. But if something seems interesting enough I'll still click it, I just don't feel like I need to 'keep up' as much anymore.