[nostalgeek]

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.

[jaseemabid]

You just described subreddits.

[bringtheaction]

Alternatively it could cross-reference posts with Reddit and see what subreddit they’re posted in and filter based on that.

[megous]

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.

[leadingthenet]

So then why are you on HN instead of Reddit?

[nullp0tr]

check out https://lobste.rs it is usually just computer science.