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What about a chrome extension that notified you how many points a link in the wild got on hn, reddit or similar? Seems like that would be simple to make, and ve

• smt88 12y ago
  That's a great idea. I actually rarely come to HN itself, though, because so many links are (what I personally consider to be) clickbait. They don't live up to the promises of their titles. I now use a service that converts HN posts with 150+ upvotes into a feed. That gives me the cream of the crop, and it's limited to maybe 10 articles a day. So your solution would probably limit uninteresting posts, but I personally am trying to find a way to limit posts that don't help me learn/grow/stay informed. A good example are recent posts of the Ant-Man trailer. I find it interesting, but I don't actually get value out of watching it. I need to be protected from my own curiosity, so to speak. Another solution I thought of would be to have a site where editors can curate the news every day. You find an editor you like, with similar values to you, and you follow that editor. They can only publish a certain number of stories a day.