hn.luap.info

Productivity

content filter

SHOW HN2020

131points
64comments
#472of 3,028 in 2020
Top 16%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

6 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.

Idea: 1 for, 7 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful for finding fresh, niche content beyond the front page

    From 3 comments
    • Thanks for this! I was quickly able to find some interesting new and niche types of things to read, in contrast to what my normal strolls through news.ycombinator and hckrnews…
      alexozer on HN
    • this offers a fresh perspective. thank you! once in a while there is a blogger that offers a different view or perspective on a topic that has been beaten to death here. them…
      blondin on HN
    • I consume my news through RSS subscriptions to specific websites, many of which frequently show up on the front page. I can see this becoming a very useful supplement to HN to…
      pizzicato on HN
  • Filtering concept and explanation page are appreciated

    From 2 comments
    • It's an interesting experiment and reflection of your personal interests but looking at http://hn.luap.info/links_flagged I can't tell the difference between most removed things…
      pvg on HN
    • thank you so much for getting rid of all the garbage that is chronically clogging HN. great work!
      jppope on HN

Objections

  • Filter removes sites with useful commentary and does not clearly select better content

    From 2 comments
    • clearly we have different interests in what we like from HN. many of the sites you filter are sites that I like prefer their content because they do offer commentary that…
      optimuspaul on HN
    • The full list is at http://hn.luap.info/about It's definitely idiosyncratic, as one would expect. A more interesting question is 'does it produce interesting results'. To my eyes…
      pvg on HN
  • Blocking .org domains removes many useful sites

    From 2 comments
    • There's a ban on *.org? Yikes.
      kick on HN
    • A lot of frameworks, libraries, programming languages etc. are .org websites and thus you're probably causing more damage by filtering .org
      hackerman123469 on HN
  • Flagging rules penalise frequent posters, including women and regular contributors

    From 1 comment
    • A user is flagged if: He posted more than 2 two links in the last 1 hour He posted more than 5 links in the last 5 days He has posted more than 5 links in the last 30 days and…
      DoreenMichele on HN

Requests

  • Personalized or NLP-based content assessment instead of blacklists

    From 2 comments
    • clearly we have different interests in what we like from HN. many of the sites you filter are sites that I like prefer their content because they do offer commentary that…
      optimuspaul on HN
    • Perhaps what we really need is a personalized feed.
      amelius on HN
  • Show points and comment counts per article

    From 1 comment
    • It would be nice to still show the number of points and comments per article in your interface, so that one could quickly scan and see what's generated the most interest.
      jgwil2 on HN
  • Show HN discussion link when there is no external link

    From 1 comment
    • where there's no link you should maybe consider linking to the article here on hn?
      somishere on HN

Questions

  • What share of readers go past page one of HN?

    From 1 comment
  • Is the 30-minute visibility window accurate?

    From 1 comment
    • 30 minutes during busy hours seems optimistic. I've seen it get as low as ten, but very few people check past the first five links on /new anyway.
      kick on HN

Alternatives named

  • Lobsters tags

    From 2 comments
    • lobste.rs tags?
      JetSpiegel on HN
    • Somewhat useful if someone not want to see news though. However, this reminds me lobster, so same service already existed. You can give it a check.
      terrycody on HN
  • hckrnews.com

    From 2 comments
    • I highly recommend hckrnews.com to bypass the HN frontpage all together. I usually sort by top 20% for a quick digest or simply sort by new. Sorting by new makes it pretty easy…
      alden_penny on HN
    • https://hckrnews.com/ has HN stories in reverse-chronological order, and shows where your last visit's newest story was (if you keep the cookie, of course). Sounds like exactly…
      SAI_Peregrinus on HN
  • hnrss.org points filter

    From 1 comment
    • Interesting tool. I am using hnrss.org to get posts in my aggregator and did not have to complain so far. That is probably because I filter the posts by points, so I only get the…
      Seb-C on HN
  • HN ML filter hn.njl.us

    From 1 comment
    • I guess Hacker News loses its memory after a few years, but six years ago this item[0] hit the front page about using machine learning to train a filter for Hacker News. It is…
      tacon on HN

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