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m4tthumphrey 2 minutes ago [-]
This is a very apt right now. The amount of AI posts is... boring to say the least.
I've always used the comments to upvotes ratio to workout if an article is worth reading. If the comments are higher than the upvotes, it's poor. Vice versa it's worth looking into. I skip all AI posts.
gnfargbl 1 minutes ago [-]
There's an infinite amount of interesting stuff out there. The subset of that which appears on the HN front page is small, and not selected in any especially curated way. You really have no choice but to ignore interesting stuff, even if you read the entire HN feed. The only answer that preserves your sanity is to stop worrying.
romaniitedomum 37 minutes ago [-]
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.
nreece 13 minutes ago [-]
> hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from
I imagine OP knows but uses the domain to hide the article based on his own instinct/history with said domain.
aryehof 25 minutes ago [-]
> hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from
I thought hide just hid that particular entry. Have I been wrong all this time?
mschild 24 minutes ago [-]
> hit hide on the domains that I never want to see anything from
Ive been on hn with one account or another for close to a decade now. I have never used that feature nor did I think it would permanently hide the domains entirely. Super good to know though.
kubb 2 minutes ago [-]
Skip everything AI and it moves at a leisurely pace.
matsemann 21 minutes ago [-]
I mainly press "past" in the top menu and skim the top posts of the previous days. It doesn't surface every interesting post/discussion, but most of it.
Just focus on what you enjoy and don't worry about the rest.
stagas 39 minutes ago [-]
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.
I do this as well. I scan the titles (not just HN, but all my rss feeds combined) and only read what grabs my interest.
tarinedier 26 minutes ago [-]
thanks that will help cut things down. yesterdays stats comparing the feeds was 117 posts vs 29
socalgal2 27 minutes ago [-]
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.
supriyo-biswas 11 minutes ago [-]
Set noprocrast=99999 on your settings page.
qsera 22 minutes ago [-]
It can be done. I have done it many times!
vaylian 8 minutes ago [-]
Depends on what your goals are. If you want to be well-informed for the nerdy water-cooler talk in the office kitchen, then you need to read a lot. Otherwise, just don't worry about it, because important topics get re-posted. If you missed something the first time, then you still have good chances to catch it the second or third time.
ochrist 44 minutes ago [-]
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.
I typically use hckr news (https://hckrnews.com/) set to show only the top 10 or top 20. It also has the advantage of showing those i missed overnight or earlier.
pmdr 24 minutes ago [-]
> 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
nitros 5 minutes ago [-]
I find I've not read HN as much over the last two years due to this. I think I see one interesting article a day at most now.
ivanmontillam 42 minutes ago [-]
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.
Im not aure i understand your question. If you cant dind 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.
NordStreamYacht 28 minutes ago [-]
RSS
sifex 42 minutes ago [-]
Octal (iOS)
Apocryphon 41 minutes ago [-]
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.
OutOfHere 46 minutes ago [-]
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.
dvh 48 minutes ago [-]
What?! Your RSS/Atom reader does not support filtering?
firemelt 34 minutes ago [-]
u are not missing out of anything bro
ekjhgkejhgk 29 minutes ago [-]
> 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?
I've always used the comments to upvotes ratio to workout if an article is worth reading. If the comments are higher than the upvotes, it's poor. Vice versa it's worth looking into. I skip all AI posts.
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.
I don't thing 'hide' applies to the domain of the post, but only the post itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#:~:text=What%20do%...
I thought hide just hid that particular entry. Have I been wrong all this time?
Ive been on hn with one account or another for close to a decade now. I have never used that feature nor did I think it would permanently hide the domains entirely. Super good to know though.
There's also the "hidden" https://news.ycombinator.com/best which is a bit the same, but not per day
[0]: https://github.com/stagas/hn10
[1]: https://textlog.cc/u/hn10
I call it "Seeking Orange" because interesting posts are highlighted. Features include:
- Point/comment counts become increasingly more orange with higher counts (50+, 100+)
- Orange accent bar on left indicates new items since last visit
- Support for several different feeds including: HckrNews (chronological front page appearance time), Classic Stories, Best Stories, Active Stories
- Thresholds to de-emphasize posts from users with low karma/recent creation dates: https://hn.leftium.com/newest?min_karma=500&min_age_years=5
A few weeks ago several HN users presented solutions for filtering out AI results, but I haven't used any of those solutions much.
or hit "v" to change views
https://hckrnight.com
> 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
If I tried to keep up, I'd be run over. It's too much input for the normal individual I am.
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.
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?