Ask HN: What has HN given you?
The author discusses their use of HN as a primary news aggregator, highlighting its effectiveness in filtering and saving articles. They utilize various tools to format and manage their saved content, making it more readable and organized. Additionally, the author shares valuable links with a friend and mentions personal projects that will benefit from the curated material.
- ▪HN serves as the author's main news aggregator, complemented by another site that is heavily moderated.
- ▪The author saves articles as PDFs and formats them for better readability.
- ▪They share valuable links with a friend and manage their saved content using auto-pager and SeaMonkey composer.
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HN is my main news aggregator. The other site is both political and social, and heavily moderated as well."I skim" and save a subset of daily articles as PDF's, as well as some referenced articles, so that my saved articles all look like HN posts or LaTEX-ish, readable articles less the tiny type, ads and usual web page clutter. The Firefox print styles and extensions are really helpful in this regard.I also share really valuable links with a friend who refuses to retire.And to keep things manageable, auto-pager works on "latest", so I save a daily digest of HN pages. I copy 24 hours worth of scroll into good old SeaMonkey composer, and end get nice HTML.This somewhat assuages my info-vore nature.
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