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Posts that are either Ask/Show HN, or links to articles/tutorials of tools and services of personal usage - personal backup articles, a nice little desktop/mobi
by balladeer 8y ago
Posts that are either Ask/Show HN, or links to articles/tutorials of tools and services of personal usage - personal backup articles, a nice little desktop/mobile app, a new messaging service of note, or a new mobile or laptop that is trying to something new etc. Comments are where I look for interesting content on such posts.
I almost always avoid those yet another JS and JS/Native/web/blogging/static site framework articles. Android dev, my bread and butter, is rarely shared and discussed on HN and since I don't (usually) browse HN during work I would anyway be not interested in things related to my work (I try to compartmentalise it like that - leave work when I leave office). Most of the tech discussions here are of backend, dev ops, and web dev which don't really interest me. I also avoid discussions or articles which have low level implantation details.
I also avoid those list articles - "best way(s) to….", "best/most X..", "Y is X…" etc. Or an article that sounds like a rant from the title unless it's by someone like DHH or the Pinboard founder or has a large number of comments. Or posts about something from my country or this side of the world.
I also look for one of those rare excellent non-tech article (preferably a long-read) - on policy, on history et cetera. And articles related to policy, privacy etc - comments are pretty informative on such posts, even though the posts are overwhelmingly US centric but that I think is just the website demographic. Actually I think I prefer non-tech articles.