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Re:Hacker News and Information Overload by DanielBMarkham on Saturday September 05, 2009 @05:36PM (#807061)
It's been mentioned before -- categories and adaptive thresholds (automatic gain)

I think every other site has categories. They seem like a natural thing to do.....

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Re:Hacker News and Information Overload by tptacek on Saturday September 05, 2009 @06:21PM (#807129)
I left reddit as soon as they fractured it into subreddits. The cool thing about HN is that it simultaneously has a diversity of subjects and a community.
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Re:Hacker News and Information Overload by jacquesm on Saturday September 05, 2009 @05:50PM (#807087)
Cue some johnny-b-goode to point you to the feature request link at the bottom of the page ;)

But you're right. For starters just two categories would do, hacking and everything else.

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Re:Hacker News and Information Overload by DanielBMarkham on Saturday September 05, 2009 @05:59PM (#807098)
If I understand correctly, HN has always had two categories. They just haven't been explicitly put into the UI: Hacking/startups and things that interest hackers.

We've kicked this can around quite a bit, and so far PG doesn't seem to be feeling enough pain to make a change.

Perhaps things will change.

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