HN is going down the road too now of the google is horrible, apple is horrible, facebook is horrible type headlines. I don't necessarily disagree - but... boring? Repetitive? There are never any positive suggestions any more (ie, here's how apple should screen for CASM). It's just pure outrage factory in some cases.
Luckily for me at least HN still has some "boring" content with lots of what seem like smart interesting folks posting - keeps me coming back :)
Mind posting some examples? I find it recommends lots of useless stuff. I know the rebuttal - it learns what you're interested in - but I can still tell you there are lots of vapid people and videos on it.
Lots of cooking, dancing, music, laughing.
this is simply not true, i regularly get videos with less than 100 views, and a few videos i published got a few hundred views.
It's pretty much purely about the popularity curve of each post. The more it drives engagement the more it's boosted.
All hail the algorithm.
that's the point, the content that doesn't engage users doesn't get promoted. TikTok isn't going to push a boring video to millions of users
I read an article about the parent company and they have one of the most popular news app in India as well despite none of the engineers being able to read what content is being pushed to the top, they just let their machine learning push the most "engaging" content, which is basically stuff that is controversial, creates anger, etc.