5 years back, everything I read here is interesting no matter what .
Now it is more like general news website, with main emphasis on backlinks, click baits .
Is anyone else feeling the same?
Do you submit links to HN? The "news" on the front page only arrives there because someone originally submitted the link via the "submit" page. If you don't submit links, then begin submitting those URL's you find interesting, and some of them may make the front page.
Do you browse and upvote items on the "new" page? The font page is populated by submissions that received sufficient upvotes when they were originally on the "new" page. Someone (well, enough "someones") thought each item was interesting enough on the new page to upvote it so it would reach the main front page.
You can help fight entropy by posting interesting things and flagging bad things and/or emailing hn@ycombinator.com about them.
There is a hide flag, which I recommend using as much as needed to ignore topics that you don’t find interesting. HN will be fine as long as forum curation remains intentional and opinionated.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Stay curious.
(Startups are just a way for a specific type of person to become economically empowered from their ambition and problem space understanding drive [“seeking product market fit and scaling”], hence why HN exists; to draw curious, driven people to investment)
The larger issue is the startup information ecosystem as a whole on the internet. With social media getting handicapped due to profit-maximizing decisions and traditional media websites that normally highlighted relevant news to hackers (e.g. TechCrunch) have been hit hard by economic shifts, there isn't a good way to surface interesting news anymore.
I like the website news minimalist anti-clickbait filter for news, the scaling filter it uses, and now topic filtering. Now it just needs more hacker news content and I can move over there then drop commenting as it’s not available.
javascript:(()=>{
let f = /\b(ai|crypto|python)\b/i;
document.querySelectorAll('tr.athing').forEach(x => f.test(x.innerText) && x.nextElementSibling.querySelector('.clicky.hider')?.click());
})();
Be the change you want to see and flag clickbait and off-topic stories.