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I don't. Most things don't matter. Like the news, you'll find out; except it'll be through Slack channels or co-workers or maybe even IRC channels, as opposed

by dvrp 1mo ago

I don't. Most things don't matter. Like the news, you'll find out; except it'll be through Slack channels or co-workers or maybe even IRC channels, as opposed to HN. > Oh, X company got hacked and you are in the cybersecurity circle? > You'll find out. > Oh, AI is the new thing? > You'd be better without that. > B-but what if I want to understand topic T? > Then I'd tell you that HN offers free fast search and you can just type topic T and do your own research and hey you may just learn something! Don't worry, you will be fine. Happy HN'ing! EDIT: Formatting.

marvinblum 1mo ago
Came here to say the same thing. I'd like to add that keeping up has also become very boring. It's always the same news - AI this AI that, I would like to see something new.
- nottorp 1mo ago
  Yep, why keep up? I browse the HN titles daily. Even comment quite a bit. But I still don't click on 95% of the stories and if the "AI" spam makes me miss something interesting it's okay, life goes on. Incidentally that's what I've been saying since ChatGPT was new and laughable. GenAI is best at spam.
- coldpie 1mo ago
  I wrote a browser extension to automatically click the Hide link for stories containing AI keywords. It helps keep the boring stuff off the front page. https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn
throw0101a 1mo ago
> I don't. Most things don't matter. I use RSS and I skip most articles. But even then there is a backlog of unread stuff I want to get to "eventually" (just like my to-read list on my library account, which is way long). But if my news aggregator (NNN) gets restarted, and I loose some of the unread stuff, I don't sweat it.