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by ergot_vacation 1692 days ago
Glad this is (at the moment at least) the top comment. Add another to the infinitely growing pile of HN news posts that are either out of date, massively misleading in making a calamity out of a non-issue, or both. Not that it's HN's fault. This is just modern "media." Yeck.

Still, worth griping about 2FA while we're here.

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Not that it's HN's fault

In a way, it is.

A lot of people joined HN searching for a higher level of discussion and thought. And HN is powered by submissions from its users.

What would be nice is if we could get more high-quality submissions to drown out the bots and other low-grade content.

Perhaps if users could filter out submissions by domain. For example, I don't mind seeing nytimes.com submissions, but I don't want to see anything from youtube.com.

But then we're just back to building yet another social media echo chamber. Yuck. Life is hard.

Do you think it would be better to filter the news as a group rather than individually? I find it very frustrating not being able to trust titles.