I've always felt that HN was too much of a firehose to digest everything anyway. I rarely visit the front page. I sift through the RSS feed and grab the 5 or

I've always felt that HN was too much of a firehose to digest everything anyway. I rarely visit the front page. I sift through the RSS feed and grab the 5 or 10 articles a day I find interesting. I've shown HN to some of my coworkers, and they can't handle the volume of submissions. I personally think that 's what makes HN so valuable. The big stories aren't all that interesting to me. It's the random blog posts, often by members of the HN community, discussing something new and exciting that keeps me here. It's those 10 out of 200 stories in my RSS feed that catch my eye. Adding 50 off topic stories a day doesn't change those numbers that much. I'm still skimming for the needles in the haystack.