Hmm, I feel like a lot of these websites are good for the news feed. If something big happens in the news and HN wants to talk about it, I'd rather the featured

Hmm, I feel like a lot of these websites are good for the news feed. If something big happens in the news and HN wants to talk about it, I'd rather the featured article be from nytimes or wsj than some random person's blog. I also think there is a total lack of consensus about what constitutes "noise" on HN or how bad the problem is. I find the political discussions here to be interesting, but I know a lot of people don't (they just want to talk about business and tech). I like talking about "hip" JS frameworks, but a lot of people here aren't web developers or aren't interested in this area of web development. I'm not a super "businessy" person, so a lot of "A merged with B and now their preferred equity is underwater" articles/discussions go over my head. I often find Medium articles thought-provoking, but some of the stuff posted there is garbage, and many HN readers have only been exposed to that side. Perhaps a better way to attack this problem is to look at the topics commonly posted about on HN and find a way to filter by topic. There are precise/difficult and greedy/easy ways to go about this, but that might be the best way to satisfy people who have different opinions about what is "noise".