TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story

Re:TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story by nostalgeek on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:32AM (#16627583)

What I'd like to see is, instead of a wide range of topics displayed on the same page, unsorted and un-categorized, a tool that would only display the topics I'm interested in. For instance I don't want to read about politics on HN, only computer science, so an app that would auto-tag/filter links depending on the source/content would be welcome. To me that's the biggest flaw of HN, having to go through pages of link to only get what I'm interested in is painful.

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Re:TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story by jaseemabid on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:48AM (#16628040)

You just described subreddits.

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Re:TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story by bringtheaction on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:40AM (#16627628)

Alternatively it could cross-reference posts with Reddit and see what subreddit they’re posted in and filter based on that.

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Re:TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story by megous on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:13AM (#16627808)

I have a simple userscript that filters by the domain and by article title - blacklisting articles.

You can get more technical hacker new by filtering out all news websites. It's quite effective.

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Re:TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story by leadingthenet on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:31AM (#16628352)

So then why are you on HN instead of Reddit?

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Re:TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story by nullp0tr on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:35PM (#16630138)

check out https://lobste.rs it is usually just computer science.

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