How to get the most out of Hacker News?

Question

I think this is an interesting place to find unique articles and news. Sometimes for an insightful or well written post. At times for a laugh or good joke. And sometimes to discover some hot new (or new to me) product, or amazing creator, or good person.I also find a lot of the articles boring, and not interesting, nor worth a read. This happens often. Ditto the threads. I can&rsquo;t classify my interests into categories or keywords, so RSS is wrong.Does anyone else feel this way? This is already a high signal place, how do you increase that and maybe tune it specifically for you?

PaulHoule · Accepted Answer

I turned this researchhttps://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/into a smart RSS reader that does the same for about 110 RSS feeds. Something missing out of most UI's is a "see something once why see it again" interface where you can x something out and not see it again rather than scan and scan and scan and scan.

duxup · Answer

I find I get more out of HN making this my go to page:https://news.ycombinator.com/active

fsflover · Answer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888

wonger_ · Answer

- asking questions in threads where the knowledgeable people are at
- I like to browse /newest and /show, and if something deserves more activity, I'll post a comment. Maybe it will get to the frontpage and attract better discussions
- search hn.algolia.com when I stumble upon interesting links, because maybe there was a past discussion with good commentary
- if there were no past submissions, then submit the link myself to attract commentary
- browsing posts from years ago if I'm bored
- don't get addicted