Wow, just wow! The Hartmann Report...

[usonian]

25. That's the question of the DECADE (or more)

I use two link aggregators: DU and Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/newest)

I heavily filter DU because so much of it is flame wars lately. So be it.

Hacker News is heavily tech and science, but since it is “owned” by a VC, and appeals to startup people and devs of every sort, it has a wide variety of programming, science, tech in the news (AI, SBF) and so on, plus a few “lounge” kinds of articles, daily.

Not for the tech faint of heart. It was my living, and I actuallty read about 20 articles a day out of some 200 or so posted.

Both DU and Hacker News are moderated to keep the self-promotion and flame wars down. DU, a little less so these days.

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These link aggregators offer a wide variety of information, in text form, so it’s low emotional response (compared to TV and video …. I am going to find browser extensions that not only stop autoplay but kills the videos altogether)

I don’t see any one site providing “windows” to such a wide variety ot information, pick and choose outside of aggregators.

As for modding, I have no block rules on Hacker News, though some RW links show up. I just ignore them, as the format only allows one line descriptions and the mods ask people to provide useful info on that line, not just “MUST SEE” or “WOW” as some people do here.

I was thinking of collecting those 20 or so links that intrigue me, and sharing them, but collecting links is tedious, and I should write some script to automate the process after dragging URLS to a folder.

Being able to do some quick programming (i.e. in bash, perl, etc) is pretty empowering. For example, I can convert an entire folder of webp files to jpeg or png with one command.