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This is totally cool and kudos to you. But be aware there are limits of personalized hacker news. I think Bill Maher put it best when ranting just last night ab
by rickdale 13y ago
This is totally cool and kudos to you. But be aware there are limits of personalized hacker news. I think Bill Maher put it best when ranting just last night about facebooks customized news feeds:
Newspapers may be old-fashioned, but here's what we're losing if you never see one. They are trying to tell you what's actually important, not just what's important to you. You may not read the whole paper, but you at least see headlines, making you aware that something's going on outside of your microtargeted world of fashion or music or Wiccans or zombies or whatever you're into.
Replace 'newspapers' with hacker news and you get the point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WohtmZDZCGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WohtmZDZCGM
- ThomPete 13y agoNewspapers are trying to show you what they think is actually important. But of course omnibus papers will never really tell you what is important only what is current.
- hnriot 13y agototal nonsense, the classifier is just pushed upstream, from what I want to see, to what some ad-motivated editor wants me to see. newspapers reported stories to sell you something, be it papers, ads or someone's agenda, not because they believed we'd all be more rounded citizens.
- ketralnis 13y agoBut in the case of filtering Hacker News you're taking that pre-filtered list (filtered by geeks and startup folk and whathaveyou) and filtering it even more. Whether that bubble is a subset of some other bubble, it's still a bubble.
- ruhruh 13y agoMust be nice to have everything figured out