Ask HN: What is your advice to make the most of HN?

[arthurcoudouy]

So I'm a pretty new HN user and I enjoy the content and conversation one can have here.

But I feel like it's a struggle to find the right content for you (reloading 'new' 20 times a day is a no-go). Even following your own conversations and threads is not super user-friendly - I discovered hnnotify to be alerted by email for each answer, which is working great.

Is there any way to ease the HN experience that are widely spread in the community? (automatic filtering of new posts by topics, mobile experience, ...)

[jstx1]

Don't think of it as a resource to be utilised or something that you need to extract value from.

[arthurcoudouy]

I'm trying to know when specific subjects are being discussed.

[raxxorrax]

The search through algolia at the buttom at the page is quite good. You can filter for popular topics or search for topics/comments. It even anticipates your spelling mistakes.

[yesenadam]

The best thing about HN is being introduced to new things, so I wouldn't want to limit that by filtering by what I already know about.

A feature which has been very helpful a couple of times is the noprocrast setting, which you can get to boot you off HN for a while if you spend too much time here.

If you click thread at the top it's not hard to see if your recent comments have replies.

Sometimes I look at https://hckrnews.com/ which just shows the recent top stories in chronological order.

Also see this github page about undocumented HN features https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

If you want to add to HN, go to new and upvote good stories. Go to ask and answer questions. Go to show and give people feedback. Submit fascinating things. Write awesome things yourself and submit them. Teach us something. (Ask not what HN can do for you etc) Good luck.

[arthurcoudouy]

Apologies for my late answer by wanted to circle back to thank you, you answered most of what I was looking for.

[yesenadam]

Thank you for saying so! :-)

[brudgers]

Since your most doesn't sound like my most, I suspect that what you make of HN is probably an uncommon (or even unique) artifact.

Maybe the place to start is with RSS modulo grep/sed/awk.