Post Categorization

Discussions focus on the need for, implementation challenges, and suggestions to improve categorization or tagging systems for organizing content like Hacker News posts.

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DanielStraight Jan 14, 2010 View on HN

Some categorization would be really nice.

dekervin May 21, 2020 View on HN

What kind of categorization do you have in mind ?

seanlinmt Aug 4, 2009 View on HN

How about having different categories?

uscneps Feb 8, 2025 View on HN

maybe i should find a way to categorize better

boothead Aug 1, 2012 View on HN

Yes perhaps categorising would be better?

karmakaze Apr 10, 2019 View on HN

It would be great if these could be tagged into a few categories.

lotsofpulp Jun 23, 2021 View on HN

More categories is the only solution.

meteor333 Apr 19, 2018 View on HN

Sorry categorization is not perfect yet. Still working on it.

joaomsa Feb 6, 2014 View on HN

Very nice. How you determine categories?

mikekchar Sep 24, 2019 View on HN

I'm curious. What benefit would that kind of categorisation bring?