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> I used to subscribe to (…) the top HN frontpage articles

https://hnrss.github.io/ lets you subscribe only to posts above a certain number of points, or other metrics.

> These days I have to "view-source" and search for feed or atom or rss to tell.

Doesn’t your feed service/app auto-detect feeds if you just paste the webpage? That’s a common feature.



> https://hnrss.github.io/ lets you subscribe only to posts above a certain number of points, or other metrics.

Yes, that's the one I used, but I feel it's still too much noise. You don't want a firehose in your RSS feeds.

Just open https://news.ycombinator.com when you want to doomscroll through an almost endless stream of information. RSS doesn't work well with social media, and that's a feature.


"..lets you subscribe only to posts above a certain number of points.."

You prefer to let other people determine what you read?


>You prefer to let other people determine what you read?

There are multiple levels of delegation to the "wisdom of the crowd":

- visiting this HN website by itself is already letting people determine what you read. The stories are submitted by others.

- reading only the front page of just the top-voted 30 stories instead of doom scrolling the additional 1000 is another level of delegation

- inside of each story, only reading a subset of the most upvoted comments is another level

People do all 3 to various degrees because there's limited time to read.


> People do all 3 to various degrees because there's limited time to read.

_By far_, the best posts I have ever seen to this website were often ones that didn't get many comments, or may have even gotten reported.


Considering you define the heuristic seems like a daft argument for you to make


Unfortunately I don't have time to personally vet literally every single piece of writing being produced by all of humanity every day.


I prefer to also hear other people’s opinion about an article as a sort of a peer review.


Alternative: https://hnrss.org/ PS: it's just a shortcut




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