I have Lobsters and Hacker News blocked on my devices because I’m way to prone to
refreshing those constantly. I rely on my RSS feed that I’ve curated over the past few years which
also includes some other curators like Simon Willison and John
Gruber. I’m thinking about how I can still discover new authors without
scrolling on autopilot, especially on Lobsters, where I find the submissions to be really
high-quality.
Maybe these weekly links posts can be part of a prompt to an LLM that can trawl
through all the submissions and help find a sample that I’ll be most interested in? Rather than
filtering out any posts, it could just rank them from “most likely to be interesting” to least
likely. I’m still trying to rely less on algorithms, but I’m curious how I could incorporate an
algorithm that I control into my own curation.
Anyways, on to the links.