4 ms·
total 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
by hnriot 13y ago
total 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