I've never been inclined to subscribe to LWN, even though I read about an article a month when it's posted to HN. Looking through the frontpage, I see:
* 6 x LWN.net Weekly Edition for $DATE
* A few weekly security advisories
* "Some news from LWN"
* Statistics from the 4.7 development cycle
* New software releases
None of these interest me. Here's what does:
* Klitzke: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
* Python's os.urandom() in the absence of entropy
* One-time passwords and GnuPG with Nitrokey
There are a few articles I like there. But they aren't discoverable and I can't find what I want without working to filter the noise.
Contrast this with hackaday.com, where every article is a really interesting feature, there's no news on bugfix releases or kernel changelogs, and they mix feature news, cool stuff in the store, and community projects.
You didn't click into the Weekly Editions? That's where the real good stuff is. And it is separated into categories so you can skip the kernel news page if you like.
* 6 x LWN.net Weekly Edition for $DATE
* A few weekly security advisories
* "Some news from LWN"
* Statistics from the 4.7 development cycle
* New software releases
None of these interest me. Here's what does:
* Klitzke: Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
* Python's os.urandom() in the absence of entropy
* One-time passwords and GnuPG with Nitrokey
There are a few articles I like there. But they aren't discoverable and I can't find what I want without working to filter the noise.
Contrast this with hackaday.com, where every article is a really interesting feature, there's no news on bugfix releases or kernel changelogs, and they mix feature news, cool stuff in the store, and community projects.