Ask HN: Men Who News Too Much – Collecting Feedbacks

Hello HN!

Being a heavy tech-news consumer means you're reading this post in your n-th daily visit to reddit while taking a quick break from work.

Hundreds of dev-based news sources generate thousands of articles everyday; hundreds of brilliant bloggers & twitterites publish their content, along with the seldom unmissable discussion on the amazing communities.And just like any other tech-fanboy, I am in love with them.Its difficult to close that tab & go back to the work I was doing before :)

Although this 'hobby' is said to be among the most crucial things for growing professionally; there is too much of news & too little time.And most of it is spent in filtering out the relevant content & saving it for later(and sadly highly unlikely)read.

There exist many aggregators, newsletters and RSS feeds to clear this chaos, but there is generally a trade-off of either being too narrow for a certain tech OR having too much noise. Reviews of many such tools are filled with other issues like insufficient domain-filtering,lack of personalized content & being distracting-eventually missing the purpose.

My question for you is if x were the ideal tool which made your tech news reading life easier,what features would you like to see in x ?

  - Do you feel that the curated newsletters are a good for saving time OR despite having subscribed, you always found yourself lurking on news sites like Hackenews, Hackenoon, subreddits etc ? 
  - How do you keep tabs on the latest trends in your domain?
  - How much of cynicism do you want in x? Should you just be served the meaningful content for your domains of interest OR you want to explore all the content to find something new & interesting once for a while?Is it really worth the time & effort?
  - How do you feel about being charged for reading the otherwise freely available content?if yes, how much would you consider a moderate amount?
  - Please give your suggestions & pros/cons for the tools which are you using for this currently, if any?

The HN community is brimming with wiser, experienced folks and being a novice, I'd love any kind of feedback form you. Cheers!