Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
In the last 2-3 years, mostly because of AI, keeping up with interesting articles on HN has become harder and harder. How do you deal with it? Besides the simple solution of simply ignoring interesting stuff more and more.
Discussion Highlights (19 comments)
s1artibartfast
Im not sure i understand your question. If you cant find it, how are you ignoring it? At any rate, I find AI interesting, but have a similar opinion that most of the HN discourse has become low quality. My solution is to follow individual users I know are high quality with similar interests.
dvh
What?! Your RSS/Atom reader does not support filtering?
aquir
I just open the page and scroll through the first couple of pages…
OutOfHere
We are strongly in the AI acceleration phase, so it'll keep getting harder. I use an RSS reader for the top posts only. In the RSS reader, I "star" what I want to read, and read what I can from among what I have starred. Of course I miss a lot, but I get the broad picture of where things are going.
x______________
Just focus on what you enjoy and don't worry about the rest.
ochrist
I've started following other websites/media more - like Slashdot, Reddit and others. A few weeks ago several HN users presented solutions for filtering out AI results, but I haven't used any of those solutions much.
sifex
Octal (iOS)
ivanmontillam
Well, don't. I follow the HN Telegram channel (not official), and if anything interesting appears, I read it. If I tried to keep up, I'd be run over. It's too much input for the normal individual I am.
Apocryphon
Anecdotally it feels like comment threads are a lot like "megathreads" on forums now, where there might be hundreds of replies. Wonder if there's been a surge of users over the last three or four years.
stagas
I've made a bot[0] for HN that posts whatever enters the top 10, summarizes it with AI and posts it on textlog[1], and so I get the fresh news like little summary notes and decide if it's worth my time. Bonus is I receive a notification on my phone because I follow it. [0]: https://github.com/stagas/hn10 [1]: https://textlog.cc/u/hn10
dibbsonline
brutalist.report these days
romaniitedomum
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 some heuristics. Personally, I'm OK with missing something. If it's good, I figure it'll surface somewhere else and impinge on my notice sooner or later.
jjp
RSS to only see new links that hit 100 points https://hnrss.org/newest?points=100 . And then selective reading of those.
firemelt
u are not missing out of anything bro
ekjhgkejhgk
> In the last 2-3 years, mostly because of AI, keeping up with interesting articles on HN has become harder and harder. I'm curious to hear why AI made it harder to read HN. Is it because there's lots of it and you don't like it?
l5870uoo9y
The weekly newsletter is a great way to get the most important information: https://hackernewsletter.com/
socalgal2
I don't. I fact I wish I wasn't checking now. I need to curb my addiction. this place is getting more toxic by the week.
omer_k
easy with my keyboard, change themes with 1, 2, 3 on keyboard or hit "v" to change views https://hckrnight.com
pmdr
> 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