I don't read very many articles on Hacker News and I think I get a lot more out of it by being my own add on filter. I avoid articles from techcrunch, nytimes,

I don't read very many articles on Hacker News and I think I get a lot more out of it by being my own add on filter. I avoid articles from techcrunch, nytimes, and basically any majorish news source (they usually can't keep my attention for some reason, even if it is interesting). What I do like are the new startup posts (sometimes they are interesting just to see what people are doing), the underlying tech posts or how someone solved an interesting problem (be it programming or something else) and anything else that sticks out I'll click on. After I click on them I skim them and see if it keeps my interest and then I read whatever is left, some days I don't read any articles and some days I read quite a few. Also comments help the filter and if I'm grabbed by a title I might check the comments to see whether or not I am going to read an article.