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.
I 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.
Absolutely 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?
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 53.3 ms ] threadWhen 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.
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/
Amazing what a couple handfuls of regexs can do. I do need to update that list[1].
[0] https://hackerer.news/
[1] https://gitlab.com/karmakaze/hackerer-news
https://histre.com/hn/
https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack
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.
HN has a minimal tagging system based on the title:
- Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
- Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/show
- etc (some people create their own, like "Tell HN", "Thank HN")