About
sift picks 10–12 Hacker News discussions daily, ranked by practitioner depth — not vote count. The aim: surface conversations where people who build things are sharing real experience.
How it works
Every day, sift looks at active HN threads and scores them by the quality of their discussion. It looks for depth, substantive back-and-forth, and signs that practitioners — not spectators — are in the thread. Results are filtered for freshness so you're reading what's alive today.
Philosophy
Most aggregators optimize for engagement — clicks, time-on-site, outrage. sift optimizes for the opposite: a reading list you can actually finish. Open the page, read what's interesting, close the tab.