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I'm not convinced - there's already an incredibly powerful filter on HN that finds and reads all the articles and rates them as being of interest to the audienc

I'm not convinced - there's already an incredibly powerful filter on HN that finds and reads all the articles and rates them as being of interest to the audience. I suspect that the appeal of something that filtered HN for people with narrower interests (of whom I am one) would be pretty limited. I'm looking for something that is widely useful, rather than a fun coding project (which I'm sure this would be).

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
You asked for a pain point, I provided one. These days I'm finding most of the "new" page to be uninteresting, and worse, most of the front page to be uninteresting as well. Many, many good, interesting and useful items slip through the net and get insufficient upvotes to hit the front page, and yet on occasion when re-submitted get noticed quickly enough, hit the front page and stay there for hours, sometimes more than a day. So when you say: > there's already an incredibly powerful filter on HN > that finds and reads all the articles and rates them > as being of interest to the audience. ... I guess I don't know what you mean. And if you just mean the current mechanism of having a wide readership that rates submissions, it's not working for me. But I would guess that you're unconvinced and won't work on it, but that's your choice, and I fully support it. Someone might build it, it might be me, and I'll be really interested to see how much use it gets. If any.
- AlexMuir 16y ago
  Sorry if I came across unappreciative - I do appreciate your idea. I just tend to enjoy seeing items that I wouldn't otherwise consider reading - perhaps this is still a bit of novelty from not having been here very long. I find that if I'm away for a few days the Best list helps me catch anything good I missed.
  - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
    No, indeed, and I wouldn't want to read only those items marked as being of interest. I just want to catch those that I should see, but missed because no one upvoted them.
    - AlexMuir 16y ago
      Something that ranked every non-dead article is well outside the scope of my skillset, even just looking at title and source. If you could get that working you'd be onto a winner.

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago

You asked for a pain point, I provided one. These days I'm finding most of the "new" page to be uninteresting, and worse, most of the front page to be uninteresting as well. Many, many good, interesting and useful items slip through the net and get insufficient upvotes to hit the front page, and yet on occasion when re-submitted get noticed quickly enough, hit the front page and stay there for hours, sometimes more than a day. So when you say: > there's already an incredibly powerful filter on HN > that finds and reads all the articles and rates them > as being of interest to the audience. ... I guess I don't know what you mean. And if you just mean the current mechanism of having a wide readership that rates submissions, it's not working for me. But I would guess that you're unconvinced and won't work on it, but that's your choice, and I fully support it. Someone might build it, it might be me, and I'll be really interested to see how much use it gets. If any.

AlexMuir 16y ago
Sorry if I came across unappreciative - I do appreciate your idea. I just tend to enjoy seeing items that I wouldn't otherwise consider reading - perhaps this is still a bit of novelty from not having been here very long. I find that if I'm away for a few days the Best list helps me catch anything good I missed.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
  No, indeed, and I wouldn't want to read only those items marked as being of interest. I just want to catch those that I should see, but missed because no one upvoted them.
  - AlexMuir 16y ago
    Something that ranked every non-dead article is well outside the scope of my skillset, even just looking at title and source. If you could get that working you'd be onto a winner.