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One option for a more tech-oriented alternative to HN might be to try surfing the “new” page of HN. Quite a lot of tech stuff gets submitted but never makes the
by snowwrestler 7y ago
One option for a more tech-oriented alternative to HN might be to try surfing the “new” page of HN. Quite a lot of tech stuff gets submitted but never makes the front page.
This also gives you a chance to help make the front page more of what you want by upvoting what you like.
Another option is Twitter. It puts the burden on you to do the curation, which is hard at first. But if you get following a good mix of people and accounts, it’s a great way to find new tech content.
- nudq 7y ago> help make the front page more of what you want by upvoting what you like An increasingly frequent experience on HN is to get into a front page submission, leave a minute later, and see the thing has entirely disappeared from sight, for entirely opaque reasons. It just happened again with this very AskHN. Lesson: We can upvote all we like, but unless it's exactly like the stuff that's always on HN, we can't trust HN to honor our votes.
- gtirloni 7y agoI usually don't agree with comments like this one because I like HN's moderation but I see my submission has 48 points right now and I can't find it either in the frontpage (up to 3rd page) or in the ask section. Crap.
- karmakaze 7y agoI've also found this to be a pattern and made a rendering[0] that orders by time or points independently rather than mixed. I can quickly scan down to around the low double-digits to see deeper stories of interest to fewer readers. Clicking the heading switches views, clicking clock/triangle changes ordering (in some places). [0] https://hackerer.news https://hackerer.news
- dang 7y ago> I can quickly scan down to around the low double-digits to see deeper stories of interest to fewer readers That sounds cool. Can you give some examples of interesting stories that you found this way, which you wouldn't have found otherwise.
- karmakaze 7y agoBy the very niche nature anything I choose will likely not be of interest to most but many may find something else interesting with similar age and points.
- dang 7y agoI think you might be underestimating how interested other people would be in those stories, and overestimating how much attention the newest page gets. Many fine submissions never reach the front page. We do a lot to try to mitigate that, but more is needed.
- karmakaze 7y agoI'm just trying to find a way to increase the s/n ratio to how HN used to be where the front and subsequent pages had so much interesting content not reported elsewhere. Not complaining everything evolves but different people want different things.