https://hnrss.github.io/ lets you subscribe only to posts above a certain number of points, or other metrics.
> These days I have to "view-source" and search for feed or atom or rss to tell.
Doesn’t your feed service/app auto-detect feeds if you just paste the webpage? That’s a common feature.
Yes, that's the one I used, but I feel it's still too much noise. You don't want a firehose in your RSS feeds.
Just open https://news.ycombinator.com when you want to doomscroll through an almost endless stream of information. RSS doesn't work well with social media, and that's a feature.
You prefer to let other people determine what you read?
There are multiple levels of delegation to the "wisdom of the crowd":
- visiting this HN website by itself is already letting people determine what you read. The stories are submitted by others.
- reading only the front page of just the top-voted 30 stories instead of doom scrolling the additional 1000 is another level of delegation
- inside of each story, only reading a subset of the most upvoted comments is another level
People do all 3 to various degrees because there's limited time to read.
_By far_, the best posts I have ever seen to this website were often ones that didn't get many comments, or may have even gotten reported.