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Sift – 10-12 HN discussions daily, ranked by practitioner depth

Sift – 10-12 HN discussions daily, ranked by practitioner depth

by vnykmshr·Mar 2, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●●BangerSolve My ProblemSlickDark Horse

HN curation that actually works: practitioners over pile-ons, depth over votes.

Strengths
  • •Scores by practitioner markers (code blocks, experience phrases, author diversity) instead of mob votes, addressing real HN drift
  • •Static build on Cloudflare Pages with zero tracking—exemplary privacy and performance discipline
  • •Daily refresh + no archive creates genuine scarcity, forcing intentional reading vs. endless scroll doom-scrolling
Weaknesses
  • •Niche audience (HN-specific; doesn't help people on Reddit, Twitter, or other forums)
  • •No persistence means you can't build a personal reading archive or revisit yesterday's discussions
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

Hacker News readers wanting high-signal discussion without noise

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Post Description

sift scores HN threads by the quality of their discussion, not vote count. It looks for depth (comments at 3+ levels), practitioner markers (experience phrases, code blocks, specific tool names), author diversity, and reference density. Threads that are mostly flames or pile-ons get filtered out.

Updated 4x/day. Shows 6 above the fold, rest behind a tap. Yesterday's picks are gone — no archive, no backlog.

The entire thing is a static page. Astro build, self-hosted fonts, no JS bundles, no tracking. Runs on Cloudflare Pages free tier.

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