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Ask HN: How does one keep up with the flood of messages on HN?
There are many messages posted on HN everyday. But not all of them interests me or are useful to my work.
So how does everyone on this platform find posts that are relevant to them without having to go through so many messages or having to frequently keep an eye on every post that is made on this forum?
- jefurii 8y agoI just accept that I'm going to miss things. I use an RSS reader to keep up with blogs that I care about and with a couple news portals, and I have certain sites like HN that I visit one or a couple times per day, but I gave up trying to read everything. I've got a life to live, things to do, people I love that I want to maintain healthy relationships with. I'm not a machine for viewing and notarizing things on the Internet. Before the web and Google and Wikipedia and blogs, simply knowing obscure information could be an advantage. It just wasn't possible for the average person to expose themselves to as much information as we do now. It took work, you had to be active, you had to buy magazines and newspapers and you had to physically go to the library and get to know the reference librarians. You had to learn how to use microfilm readers and you had to take notes or photocopy things by hand. We no longer have to do all that. But now I think taking time away from the flood to develop skills brings advantage. I'm not a fan of Jaron Lanier and I'm not one of those people who thinks we should all withdraw from the Internet. But we do have to develop skills and information hygiene. You can't eat everything at the buffet every day and remain healthy forever. You have to pick and choose.
- andrewstuart 8y agoJust obsessively visit every few minutes.
- imhoguy 8y agoThanks goodness there is noprocrast.
- muzani 8y agoDon't. There's an opportunity cost to keeping up. It's okay to miss out. Or otherwise hire an intern to refresh your feed and send a report of the good ones every day.
- quickthrower2 8y agoIf you can search by keyword, try https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com and search, and you can order by date.
- thedevindevops 8y agoAlternate between the Ask, New and From pages (FYI if you click the domain next to a shared link you get all the links From just that domain)
- aprdm 8y agoI try to check it once a week through hn.algolia for the most popular in last week / month. Don't feel like I miss too much by that approach.
- tmaly 8y agoI use http://hckrnews.com/ http://hckrnews.com/ to look for top posts and I look at the Ask section to see if I can be of any help or to learn from others. Other than that, I cannot keep up with the messages, nor do I try to.
- mike-cardwell 8y agoRSS + Regex: mike@snake:~$ rss --list|grep -i ycombinat 155. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss mike@snake:~$ rss --list-grep 155 74. title = (?i)\b((e-?|web)?mail|hardenize|irc|internet relay chat|grpc|hashicorp|rust|debian|c\+\+|perl|(bit|name)coin|tor|pgp|gpg|gnupg|openpgp|digitalocean|ovh|linode|grepular|email\s*privacy\s*tester|parsemail|ssl|https|backdoor|apache|exim|distribut|peer (to|2) peer|vpn|secur|anonym|webrtc|torrent|webtorrent|nextcloud|owncloud|graphql)(ity|ous|e?s|ing?|ed?)?\b mike@snake:~$ Plus occasional browsing when I'm bored
- karmakaze 8y agoI made hackerer.news more as a way for me to spend less time reading HN than catching all the stories. I quickly scan stories by day and clicking the heading switches to Recent, and Ask/Show. You can sometimes click the Show HN ⏱/▽ to change the sorting. I often find stories with tens of votes more interesting than ones with hundreds (just good to be aware of). [0] https://hackerer.news https://hackerer.news
- sethammons 8y agoI need to check here less. Like, waaaay less. I wake up and check all the post titles on the front page and in Ask. Then I glace again nearly every time I'm idle. I need to get back to at most once a day and more like once a week.