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The HN-centric term for this is "middlebrow"; a good middlebrow filter is definitely required to navigate HN.

Can you elaborate?

Searching HN for it brings up this explanation as the first hit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072224

ya i aint never heard the term b4 neither. colorful. wonder if middlebrow refers to furrowing between teh browz??>