Comment by latexr

5 months ago

> I used to subscribe to (…) the top HN frontpage articles

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.

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sph  5 months ago

> https://hnrss.github.io/ lets you subscribe only to posts above a certain number of points, or other metrics.

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.

SirFatty  5 months ago

"..lets you subscribe only to posts above a certain number of points.."

You prefer to let other people determine what you read?

  • jasode  5 months ago

    >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.

    • esseph  5 months ago

      > 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.

  • account42  5 months ago

    Unfortunately I don't have time to personally vet literally every single piece of writing being produced by all of humanity every day.