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Comment by Waterluvian | Hacker News Reader

Articles by individuals about self discovery are my favourite. "Here's something I learned. Here's how I learned it. Here's how things are different because I learned it." Especially when it's not cutting edge stuff. Especially when it's by individuals who aren't serial bloggers.

Honestly, everything else feels like an unfulfilling facebook-like time sink. Current events, advertising, new libraries of random languages I don't use, echo chamber issues, self-serving content where "experts" sell you their perspective for ad revenue.

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One can argue that those are the best bits of the Hero's Journey plot structure

I'm reading the hero with one thousand faces right now. Absolutely enchanting.

Reminds me I need to do a reread of that this year. Probably will appreciate it a lot more, which is saying something given how I felt towards it when I first read it.

I didn't make that connection but you're absolutely right.

check this out https://www.8hrs.xyz/

The site shows all the top page articles since last 8hrs. I am not sure if this will be useful for hn readers. I am the author.

Interesting. Maybe try to add longer time windows like http://www.hckrnews.com

Also, I think someone should work on a personalization engine for hn.

hckrnews.com is the exclusive way in which I read Hacker News.

It is for me as well. I like the chronological order, and it lets me be sure I’ve read all the “interesting stuff”. I read HM a lot, though, and for people who pop in only once a day or even a few times each week, the default view makes much more sense.

  it lets me be sure I’ve read all the “interesting stuff”

How can you be sure their curation exactly matches your interests?

What would you like to have in such a system?

1) More content related to what you read/open 2) Removal of posts similar to a given post (e.g. please no more js rant) 3) Something more?

Thanks!

Sometimes I check HN once or every few days. hckrnews.com allows me to go back in time and see stuff that hit the front page.

The problem is that stuff that interests me isn't always the stuff with the most upvotes or the most comments. I constantly find articles that are relevant to my interests or area of expertise and aren't in the "Top 10" or "Top 50%" (hckrnews.com definitions).

That's why I suggest that some ML-trained tagging and recommendation system would be helpful delivering HN content of interest.

bookmarked by me as x8h

Not all top page articles have (enough) comments. I'm here for the comments, not for the articles :-P

Is the issue esoteric languages or just languages you don’t use? Which languages do you use?

My point is more that it's not like I signed up for news about certain languages. So unless I use them all, there will always be some amount of noise.

Everybody has their pet peeve about things that are "too popular" on Hacker News, see this classic:

http://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

The trouble is people don't agree on what those are!

The next article in that series

http://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

never went viral because it was too emotionally positive. (E.g. rather than complain about the danger of A.I. in the hands of Google/Facebook/Baidu why not apply it to your own needs?)

I get sick of the all the "I competed in Kaggle and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt" posts that you see on HN, but HN readers who look at that article superficially might not realize that I am solving my own problem, facing down the issues of applying ML to a business problem which has not been carefully curated.

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