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by nostalgeek 3010 days ago
What I'd like to see is, instead of a wide range of topics displayed on the same page, unsorted and un-categorized, a tool that would only display the topics I'm interested in. For instance I don't want to read about politics on HN, only computer science, so an app that would auto-tag/filter links depending on the source/content would be welcome. To me that's the biggest flaw of HN, having to go through pages of link to only get what I'm interested in is painful.
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You just described subreddits.
Alternatively it could cross-reference posts with Reddit and see what subreddit they’re posted in and filter based on that.
I have a simple userscript that filters by the domain and by article title - blacklisting articles.

You can get more technical hacker new by filtering out all news websites. It's quite effective.

So then why are you on HN instead of Reddit?
check out https://lobste.rs it is usually just computer science.