Ask HN: Who reads the "newest" feed, and what do you look for there?

3 rand_num_gen 2 9/12/2025, 6:26:09 PM

Most people browse Hacker News through the front page (top / hot), since it's already filtered for quality by the community.

But the "newest" feed feels very different: it's raw, unfiltered, and often low-quality. Yet I notice some users clearly dig into it, upvote good posts, and bring hidden gems to the front page.

I'm curious: - Who here regularly reads the "newest" feed? - What kind of content are you looking for (early projects, research papers, niche blogs, etc.)? - Do you see yourselves as "content scouts" for the rest of the community, or just looking for things you personally enjoy? - How do you filter signal from noise?

I think this is an interesting part of HN culture that doesn't get discussed much.

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PaulHoule · 14m ago

This kind of thing. Particularly good “Ask HN”s fall through the cracks.

A few weeks back I was upvoting anything on the new page that wasn’t low quality posts about AI like “I vibe coded that almost works”, “Show HN: My me-too startup that’s just a Chat GPT” wrapper but that onslaught either stopped or I don’t care about it anymore.

MontgomeryPy · 12m ago

I'm here. The Front Page doesn't seem to change much intraday (to me) and feels heavily moderated.

Adam (YC W25) Is Hiring to Build the Future of CAD (ycombinator.com)

Piramidal (YC W24) Is Hiring Back End Engineer (ycombinator.com)

Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring Engineering ICs and Managers (mux.com)

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring First Product Manager to Shift FinOps Left (ycombinator.com)

Crimson (YC X25) is hiring founding engineers in London (ycombinator.com)

Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding AI engineer (ycombinator.com)

Nango (YC W23) Is Hiring a Staff Back End Engineer (Remote) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)

Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring – UX Design Engineer (ycombinator.com)

Relace (YC W23) Is Hiring for Code LLMs (SF)

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Engineers, AES, and Senior PMM (ycombinator.com)

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Solutions Engineer (Remote US and Canada) (ycombinator.com)

Svix (webhooks as a service) is hiring for a founding marketing lead (svix.com)

Dynamo AI (YC W22) Is Hiring for AI Product Managers (ycombinator.com)

Kapa.ai (YC S23) is hiring research and software engineers (ycombinator.com)

Optery (YC W22) Is Hiring in Engineering, Legal, Sales, Marketing (U.S., Latam) (optery.com)

Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers, designers, and interns (on-site in Berlin) (hi.telli.com)

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Solutions Engineers to Scale the OSS Security Stack (ycombinator.com)

Channel3 (YC S25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer, NYC (channel3.notion.site)

Thunder Compute (YC S24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)

Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build a better Jupyter notebook (deepnote.com)

Prosper AI (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding Account Executives (NYC) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)

The Forecasting Company (YC S24) Is Hiring a Software Engineer (ycombinator.com)

Lago – Open-Source Usage Based Billing – Is Hiring in Sales, Eng, Ops (EU, US) (ycombinator.com)

Ember (YC F24) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineer (ycombinator.com)

LiteLLM (YC W23) is hiring a back end engineer (ycombinator.com)

SigNoz (YC W21, Open Source Datadog) Is Hiring Platform Engineers (Remote) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)

Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Principal Software Engineers (jobs.ashbyhq.com)

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring an Applied AI Engineer (workatastartup.com)

Text.ai (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer (ycombinator.com)

Cua (YC X25) is hiring design engineers in SF (ycombinator.com)

Ask HN: Who reads the "newest" feed, and what do you look for there?

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