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Tell HN: How to make the front page less boring in one easy step
See the link that says "new" at the top?
Click it and actually upvote stories that are interesting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
If you're disappointed with the quality of material on the front page, guess what: You can do something about it!
If more people did, a lot of great content wouldn't fade to obscurity.
- randycupertino 11y agoI've been trying to do this! Often it seems like there are so many "new" articles I can't keep up with them all. Also a lot of things stagnate with 1 point and then just disappear. Do you know if there's a way to sort the articles by topic? (see my question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863542) Thanks.
- indelusion 11y agoEach row that represents the different articles should have different color background but not bright, it should be dark hue with subtle tinge of colors. It would aid in easier on eyes and the brain to compartmentalize and create separation that is functional and stylized.
- m0nty 11y agoI prefer reading the "new" stories more than the front page. For convenience, I also have this running on my Linux box: rsstail -l -i 600 -u https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss | tee --append ycombinator-rss.txt So I can grep for interesting stuff when I have time.