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by gregjor 652 days ago
HN can't have the qualities "relevant" or "useful." Those words describe individual and subjective judgments of the site's content. Since HN consists of an ever-growing pile of loosely-related articles and links, I don't think you can make meaningful judgments about the site as a whole.

I find enough content on HN that seems relevant or useful to me, so I continue scanning through it. Based on the frequency of posts and lively comment threads I think many other people also find the site relevant and useful, to them.

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true. I think that was what threw me off in the beginning - it being a potluck of random article, sites, info, and news that didn't have the organization/categorization present in other types of community-driven sites. I will explore it a bit more, as I have found useful and interesting topics to me, they just usually are further down the list (kinda like nuggets of gold imo). thanks for the insight!