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Ask HN: Why is HN not categorizing submitted items?
It would be extremely helpful to have some basic categories: tech, economy, world news etc. on the homepage that you can filter by.
- CrypticShift 3y agoSome alternative sites do this (for HN content) by AI : https://histre.com/hn/ https://histre.com/hn/ https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack
- dyeje 3y agoWho does the categorizing? Sounds like unnecessary complication, Reddit already handles this niche.
- ddano 3y agoUser when posting.
- fsflover 3y agoThere are too many submissions which happen to touch many categories at once. This is almost impossible to do.
- ddano 3y agoWhy impossible? When you submit URL: NH offers few general categories in a mandatory field. OP chooses most suitable. Homepage provides filters: ALL / CAT1 / CAT2 / CAT3. Nothing drastically changes, but helps with content consumptions significantly. For example, I might be interested only in hardware stories, so I'll click on the HARDWARE cat/tag whatever.
- h2odragon 3y agoI do that. Many of my links come from HN. https://snafuhall.com/ https://snafuhall.com/
- PaulHoule 3y agoI think they'd rather have one community rather than multiple communities oriented around different subjects. (See Reddit) I have been thinking about making a classification model for "things that might be posted to Hacker News" and was thinking about training it on https://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/
- amadeuspagel 3y agoThe most interesting things can't be categorized.
- solardev 3y agoTags, then?
- karmakaze 3y agoFunny that's how I handled it[0]--by categorizing the uninteresting/populist things and the remaining will contain some of the most interesting ones. Amazing what a couple handfuls of regexs can do. I do need to update that list[1]. [0] https://hackerer.news/ https://hackerer.news/ [1] https://gitlab.com/karmakaze/hackerer-news https://gitlab.com/karmakaze/hackerer-news
- krapp 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22649809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22649809
- runjake 3y agoI think things are fine as they are. You can get a gist of the subject from the title (at least after dang gets to it). If I want more, the search has been super helpful. As others have mentioned, there are alternative HN frontends that attempt to do this. I personally would not trust submitter-categorized submissions, especially as more Redditors flee to HN.
- Leftium 3y agoHistre is a site/browser extension that adds (AI-generated) tags to HN: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/35904988 https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/35904988 HN has a minimal tagging system based on the title: - Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/ask https://news.ycombinator.com/ask - Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show - etc (some people create their own, like "Tell HN", "Thank HN")
- helph67 3y agoAbsolutely agree. It would enable users to follow their `special' topics without having to churn through every other topic as well. Hopefully HN and AI will have a love child, soon?