My favorite commenters on Hacker News
After two weeks of bliss with my new tool for reading Hacker News, I’ve come up with a shortlist of my favorite commenters there. The difference in quality between the filtered and unfiltered views is huge—just about every interesting thread on hacker news has somebody interesting commenting on it, it seems. That correspondence should hold even if your notion of interesting is different from mine.
If you’ve been using my feed you can create your own shortlist and/or killfile. Here’s the complete reference on configuring the URL. No more orange divider falling to the bottom of the page after a few hours, heralding comments lost.
Filtering should keep Hacker News interesting for me even if it goes the way of reddit and has a huge influx of new users. In the spirit of Zawinski’s law for the web, Hacker News is now perhaps my favorite social network, even though it doesn’t look anything like one, and it doesn’t include most of my best friends in the real world. I think there’s a lesson here.
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