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Tell HN: /active and showdead might lead to a more informative HN experience
If you go on https://news.ycombinator.com/active instead of the default https://news.ycombinator.com page, the results are very different. In my experience, much more interesting content.
Here is a quick list of submissions that are currently on the top 10 of /active that are not on the default front page at all.
“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43714203
-flagged- US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715022
Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711706
This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716939
Encryption Is Not a Crime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716138
These submissions are interesting to me and IMO are all related to tech/science (yes, even the Harvard one - fewer talented foreign students leads to less innovation). I understand the reasoning for hiding these - most are political or opinionated and lead to possibly inflammatory debate. But I trust my own best judgement for what is worth consuming and personally don't want any algorithm deciding for me (other than a simple function of f(upvotes, time_elapsed)).
- toomuchtodo 1y agoMods: Setting to make this default when logged in pls? "showactive" like "showdead"
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- aaron695 1y ago[dead]
- JohnFen 1y agoI saw all of those in the regular feed, no active needed. But perhaps it would be useful for those who don't check in with HN as often as I do.