Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

**The Firehose Is Now a Firewall.** The ultimate badge of geek cred—reading every riveting thing on HN—just became an impossible grind. When an old guard post asks, "How do you keep up?" it isn't asking for a solution; it’s asking for a funeral. That thread, with its honest admissions of "ignoring interesting stuff more and more," is a signal flare. This matters because HN was always the last great equalizer. If the front page is now a firehose that forces even the most well-read founders to tune out, then the platform is quietly losing its primary value: serendipity. This connects directly to the "AI summarization" trend—we're betting big on tools like Claude and ChatGPT to distill our Reddit, our news, and our code. But if we need AI to filter out the AI-generated content *about* AI, we're trapped in a weird ouroboros of relevance. The takeaway for the Startup Signal crowd? Curation is the new creation. The next big "pivot" isn't building communities, it's building filters that don't lie to you. **The closest thing to digital FOMO is the sound of a front page you’ll never read.** Tools change, but the act of choosing what to *miss* is now a technical skill. {"key_insight":"The bottleneck isn't content scarcity; it's trust. Curation that provides taste, not just aggregation, is the untapped trend.","confidence":0.85}