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Re:Data Mining Hacker News: Front vs. Back by sdrothrock on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:37PM (#12689617)
> By remembering your votes and views and doing a bit of collaborative filtering the site can give you a 'filter bubble' where things you are quite likely to like float towards the top...

The lack of such a "filter bubble" is why I actually treasure HN more than other similar news aggregation sites; it exposes me to ideas, sites, and viewpoints outside of those I'm normally interested in, whether I agree with them or not. :)

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Re:Data Mining Hacker News: Front vs. Back by willvarfar on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @01:12AM (#12690549)
HN is a filter bubble, its just a collective filter bubble and not personalised.

(My prototype split above the fold into "unfiltered unrated" stories and the filtered stories, so everyone was always exposed to some irrelevancies.)

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