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I start by scanning through the front page and clicking "HIDE" on:

  Betterridge Headlines
  Articles with a (YEAR)
  Articles with a [PDF] 
  "Do X in Language"
  Blockchain-related
  Mac-related
  "Ask HN: List things"
  Hiring notices
- Specific domains:

  All newspapers
  All longform sites
  All clickbait sites
  All health information
  Medium
  Github
  Wikipedia
  Stratechery
This usually clears out all the time-sinks, ads, "Github spam" and clickbait. And sometimes you find a Tesla article or 2 that's been pushed back to the 2nd or 3rd page.



I HIDE:

"X" the good parts

"X" driven design

Building a toy "X" in toy language "Y" in Z minutes

How to interview [another random internet opinion]

Anything that's crawling with cp-grey types.

Anecdote about hallucinogen curing every psychological problem

2-week Microstudy on nootropic improving attention


> Anything that's crawling with cp-grey types.

Is this like CGP Grey?


> Articles with a (YEAR)

Why do you consider content from the past to be clickbait?


Not clickbait, but a rabbit-hole like longform articles. Consuming information dumps can too easily become a form of procrastination.




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