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If you follow the right people in your fields of interest you will have an endless stream of interesting updated content. You can't personalize HN to have the exact sort of news you want but you can tune the people you follow in Twitter and get the best source of curated news there is for you. I frequently find stuff like new library releases/interesting blog posts from someone I follow well before they appear (if they ever do) in places like HN/Reddit subs I frequent.