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Besides the great content that's surfaced and comment threads, there is a negative addictive aspect. The ranking algorithm mixes older popular articles with new
by karmakaze 4y ago
Besides the great content that's surfaced and comment threads, there is a negative addictive aspect. The ranking algorithm mixes older popular articles with new articles. This is a perfectly reasonable way to give new posts exposure, but is a terrible way to consume it. Every time we revisit HN during the day we see a number of titles that we'd seen before. Then every once in a while we find a new gem that's either new, or missed a previous time, jackpot.
Since I check multiple times per day, I split posts by day and keywords to dramatically cut down on total visit time: hackerer.news
- gabrielsroka 4y ago> Every time we revisit HN during the day we see a number of titles that we'd seen before. That's why I wrote a client that keeps track of titles I've seen and doesn't show them to me again. https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hn.html?small https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hn.html?small