Perhaps you don't see the value because you don't value your time in the same way that others do. Skimming through a bunch of titles I'm not interested in does have a cost. The cost is exacerbated if viewing the titles via the New view which includes lots of spam. Also every news site displays hand-picked articles so nothing new there. I've often wished HN would implement a basic story categorization feature so that users could specify their preferences which would apply a basic filter to the homepage story list. Anyway kudos to the author of this new tool!