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What I've Learned from Hacker News

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14 points sethbannon | 1 comments | 19 Feb 19 19:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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towaway1138 ◴[19 Feb 19 21:41 UTC] No.19203112[source]▶
One of the problems with "karma" sites like these is that everyone sees the same metric. But the comments you love aren't likely to be the same ones I love.

I'd like to see a system closer to a movie/music suggestion system. Personalize the crap out of everything, show me the stuff I'll probably love, and don't even bother showing me trash I'll obviously hate. And for God's sake, make it trivially easy to permanently killfile other users.

Yes, this is computationally more involved. But the result would be something that would make everyone happier (except perhaps inveterate trolls).

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1. imustbeevil ◴[20 Feb 19 12:27 UTC] No.19207317[source]▶
> show me the stuff I'll probably love, and don't even bother showing me trash I'll obviously hate

I think this is what I use Hacker News for. I want to escape all of the weird suggestion tech that I've only ever seen be done poorly by the most successful companies applying it (Youtube, Facebook, Netflix). Hacker News (and hckrnews.com) let me see an unfiltered list of everything ~10 people gave enough of a shit about to show up on the front page.

I'd rather solve the signal to noise problem by reducing the noise, than by reducing the signal and hoping I'm only getting signal.