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Re:"Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming by mstade on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:00AM (#37889027)
Honestly I think this is a feature, not a bug. I like that there's a bunch of things I don't find interesting. Sometimes I'll read stuff in not drawn to anyway, mostly just for the (typically) insightful commentary on this site. I've learned countless new things because of it, and things I didn't find immediately interesting turned into a topic of interest.

Case in point: the other day there was a posting about scanning old scrolls for text, and I found the topic dull. Reading the commentary I learn about the Ea-Nasir tabled[1] and found it both amusing and interesting. I also learned there's a whole subreddit dedicated to this topic, and reading through some of the funnies I decided to go back and read the actual article about scanning the scrolls. I then learned much more than I thought I wanted to learn about true intricate process and labor involved in doing this work, and found it quite interesting indeed.

So yeah, I'd much rather a high percentage of posts on this site continue to be about topics I have no immediate interest in, because you never know...

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir

Re:"Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming by Rochus on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:09AM (#37889089)
That's how I use the HN frontpage.
Re:"Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming by yard2010 on Sunday October 15, 2023 @09:11AM (#37889445)
When something seems boring on HN I open it and go straight to the comments.

Also, I have this weird effect, when reading something not on HN, in the end I forget, and look for the button wondering what HN has to say about it. The disappointment each and every time..

Re:"Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming by RetroTechie on Sunday October 15, 2023 @09:21AM (#37889500)
That's a good reason I keep coming back to HN:

* Exposure to related, but outside-my-usual interests.

* Keep informed about what gets ppl in other fields exited, or where tech like AI, bio sciences, renewables etc are heading.

* "Today I Learned:"...