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I understand that this type of post is useful to many people, especially younger folks looking for career direction. I'm turning 43 this week and I've been down

by diego 14y ago

I understand that this type of post is useful to many people, especially younger folks looking for career direction. I'm turning 43 this week and I've been down that road many times, so this post doesn't mean much to me. This is not a complaint about the post, but about Hacker News. If Hacker News had subsections like Reddit does, this post would belong under inspiration/self-help. I would unsubscribe from that section and I wouldn't see it. As things stand, these posts take up too many slots on the one and only, one-size-fits-all front page of a site called Hacker News. I find it a bit ironic that Hacker News is so unhackable / uncustomizable.

codewright 14y ago
This is the prime pain point for me with Hacker News. I'm not turning 43 this week, but I am exhausted to death of the inability to filter out categories/sub-cultures of content like this.
- loceng 14y ago
  Agreed. I think the community could grow if this functionality was done properly. I believe the care exists and good moderators would be found / come into being.
stcredzero 14y ago
Already 43. Also a primary pain point for me. Perhaps someone could write a browser add-on to tag headlines and filter-out headlines by tag?
bpatrianakos 14y ago
Not every post is for everyone. This just isn't Reddit. HN is HN for exactly the things you'd like to change about it. There's a lot of stuff that I find totally uninteresting showing up often too (anything about Haskell, someone is "doing it wrong", big site X is down but apparently it's not big enough for us to know about it on our own so someone has to post it here and we have to debate how everyone is "doing the cloud wrong" again) but I wouldn't change it for the world because that would fundamentally change the site itself. There are certainly some kinds of posts that objectively just don't belong here, I'll grant that. But if you want filters then just go to Reddit.

by diego 14y ago

codewright 14y ago

This is the prime pain point for me with Hacker News. I'm not turning 43 this week, but I am exhausted to death of the inability to filter out categories/sub-cultures of content like this.

loceng 14y ago
Agreed. I think the community could grow if this functionality was done properly. I believe the care exists and good moderators would be found / come into being.

stcredzero 14y ago

Already 43. Also a primary pain point for me. Perhaps someone could write a browser add-on to tag headlines and filter-out headlines by tag?

bpatrianakos 14y ago

Not every post is for everyone. This just isn't Reddit. HN is HN for exactly the things you'd like to change about it. There's a lot of stuff that I find totally uninteresting showing up often too (anything about Haskell, someone is "doing it wrong", big site X is down but apparently it's not big enough for us to know about it on our own so someone has to post it here and we have to debate how everyone is "doing the cloud wrong" again) but I wouldn't change it for the world because that would fundamentally change the site itself. There are certainly some kinds of posts that objectively just don't belong here, I'll grant that. But if you want filters then just go to Reddit.