Ask HN: Who reads the "newest" feed, and what do you look for there?
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A few weeks back I was upvoting anything on the new page that wasn’t low quality posts about AI like “I vibe coded that almost works”, “Show HN: My me-too startup that’s just a Chat GPT” wrapper but that onslaught either stopped or I don’t care about it anymore.
The vast knowledge in the collective HN community never fails to amaze me.
It's a bit like donating to a charity for a illness that you or your relatives have been personally impacted by - equal parts altruism and selfishness.
Every time I have to use the "vouch" feature to save posts on new, because some psychotic users here or perhaps a psychotic auto-moderator, insists on marking perfectly good submissions as [flagged] or [dead].
More people should check out the "New" tab.
As far as I know, HN's algorithm only takes user interaction into account for post ranking. It does not look at the post content to know whether or not it is about AI. (Though, the irony would amuse me.)
That is how almost all of the front page items get to the front page to begin with.
> just looking for things you personally enjoy?
Mostly, plus the new feed has more variety (and more noise too) than the front page. So you'll find items you enjoy but that don't actually ever garner enough upvotes to make it to the front page.