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The sort of filtering this script employs is the same sort of filtering you apply by not reading the titles of every news article on every news site each day.
by mike-cardwell 17y ago
The sort of filtering this script employs is the same sort of filtering you apply by not reading the titles of every news article on every news site each day.
There are countless articles on countless news sites that you would love to read, and by not attempting to filter out the articles which you don't want to read, you're missing out on them. You should stop sticking your head in the sand and start trying to read the news more efficiently.
- petercooper 17y agoYou should stop sticking your head in the sand and start trying to read the news more efficiently. That's always my goal, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is a cavalier sort of "efficiency." As I previously discussed, context is crucial in filtering news and a regex on headlines is a poor way to infer it. Our discussion, though, has missed that HN is a filter already - a contextual, human-powered one. I like what HN users vote up and find it an efficient way to get tech news. If HN users frequently voted up items I was not interested in, I should not frequent it.
- mike-cardwell 17y agoGiven a theoretical million articles, it makes perfect sense to try and remove the articles which you're least likely to be interested in so you've a higher chance of seeing the articles which you will be interested in. You can't brain filter them all, so you will always end up applying some sort of automatic filter which is not context aware.
- robotron 17y agoWhy do you care if the rest of us read iPad articles? This makes no sense. Is it an extension of the Apple-controls-everything philosophy?
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