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Show HN: View Top 10 posts on HN, Reddit, Medium every day, week and month

111 points by timqian 10y ago

brudgers 10y ago
Curious if this was built to "scratch your own itch."
- lilyqian 10y ago
  Yes, This site is built for quickly view headlines in the programmer world when I don't have time browse site by site
  - rrecuero 10y ago
    Solid. I have built something similar for myself, I was wondering about feeding a subset to Pocket
Eclyps 10y ago
Sadly it doesn't seem to go back further than April 2016 :(
- elliottcarlson 10y ago
  The author could seed it back with a HN dump like https://github.com/alixaxel/dump.HN https://github.com/alixaxel/dump.HN
andersonmvd 10y ago
Good job. Btw, there is a similar project here: http://reader.one/ http://reader.one/ (lol, just got a downvote)
- jschulenklopper 10y ago
  Well, that Reader One (One Reader?) only seems to show the current top N posts of a couple of popular sites (Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, Slashdot, Designer News, Lifehacker, ...). Is there a (hidden) feature to show the top posts on a daily, weekly or monthly level?
  - andersonmvd 10y ago
    I don't think so. It's not my project either. It was featured months ago on product hunt and since then I didn't notice any update on the app.
lucb1e 10y ago
The thing I'm always missing on Reddit and HN is a sliding scale to tweak the time dropoff factor. For example I've been busy and check Reddit for the first time in four days. Ideally I'd see the most important stuff of the past 4 days, but the algorithm for "best" is not configurable and I roughly see what's hot today. Another example is a thoroughly boring lesson where you just keep hitting refresh and all the links are purple already. Here I'd slide the scale to "what's new in the past 5-30 minutes?" On reddit you can go for top posts of the day/week/month/year/alltime already and HN can do the same via the search feature. What I can't select is a granularity of less than a week and either longer or shorter than a day, and this website can't do that either, so for me at least this site has no use. I'm not saying you (OP) should build this. It's more of a shout out to the community in general, perhaps someone has tips (e.g. an app that can do this) or someone agrees and happens to know a reddit admin and tells them... just my thoughts. That's why I'm posting this, not to make you change this site ;) By the way, it might just be me, but the background... is more of a foreground, at least when I try to look at the website it jumps out immediately.
- emir_ 10y ago
  That's something that Digg did well. You could click "top today/24 hours/week/x days" and you would see the submissions with most diggs in 24 hours/week/days/etc.
  - lucb1e 10y ago
    But why not make it a sliding scale, where you can pick the past 17.3 minutes if you wish to do so?
    - iLoch 10y ago
      Might be because it requires more complex database querying and/or is less cacheable.
      - milcron 10y ago
        Still... I'm unhappy with the current selection of offerings. Reddit lets you see the top posts from the past: hour, day, week, month, year, all time. Going from one month to a whole year is a huge jump! And personally I almost never look at top posts from the past hour. I would love to see top posts from the past 3-months and 6-months.
basch 10y ago
i have not found anything more powerful than panda for this kind of thing, its the perfect mix of customization and preconfiguration. http://usepanda.com/app/ http://usepanda.com/app/
- haskal 10y ago
  I got here through Panda. This app/plugin is well done.
KaoruAoiShiho 10y ago
Whoa. Thanks for showing me v2ex. Cool!
mraleman 10y ago
Sounds like a good way to read average articles and reinforce a filter bubble, click bait titles, and bike-shedding.
saq 10y ago
Great service! Good work but What is that backgound? HUrts my eyes in kind of funny way
crisopolis 10y ago
GitHub part is so flawed... because FreeCodeCamp inflate their popularity by requiring during onboarding for the user to star their repository yet keeping them at the top. It's like if I told everyone to vote up my Hacker News posts... and gave them the link to do it and GitHub has no remedy for that inflation.
- sant0sk1 10y ago
  This is why we recently retired FreeCodeCamp from Changelog Nightly[^1]. It was in the Top Starred list each and every night for months on end. Impressive, but not very interesting. [1]: https://changelog.com/recent-improvements-to-changelog-nightly/ https://changelog.com/recent-improvements-to-changelog-night...
jschulenklopper 10y ago
It's only for Hacker News, but Colin Parcival daily posts the top 10 HN posts on http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/. It lacks your feature to show the top posts on a weekly or monthly level (and more sources), which are cool features. (I'm not a big fan of the UI style thought.) Then there's also "hckr news", https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/, which shows the top 10 or top 20 per day, or the top 50% of every six hours. But also that one is just for Hacker News.
rayalez 10y ago
Awesome! You should really create a daily/weekly/monthly newsletter and rss feeds, I think it would be really valuable. How did you compile the top medium posts? Do they have an API?
- anotherevan 10y ago
  +1 for RSS feeds. I would definitely subscribe to weekly feeds for HN and Medium at the least.
- timqian 10y ago
  For Medium, I just fetch this link( medium.com/top-stories) and get top 10 links every day
jwebb99 10y ago
I don't like having blocks of headlines all over the screen. It kind of reminds me of a web portal from the 90s. I think something like http://reader.one/ http://reader.one/ (mentioned by another user on this page) provides a more readable interface.
timqian 10y ago
For people who are interested in the raw JSON data and how I get them. The JSON files and the'crawler' is also opensourced on github: https://github.com/timqian/my-headline-crawler https://github.com/timqian/my-headline-crawler
ramblerman 10y ago
Great concept. But ditch the hideous background. It may be just me, in which case ignore this, but I would expect more people to be put off by it.
ruler88 10y ago
You know what would be cool, if you can have an email list going and send these out on the daily basis to your users.
vassilevsky 10y ago
Really like the site. But you need to work on html entity decoding :)

111 points by timqian 10y ago

brudgers 10y ago

Curious if this was built to "scratch your own itch."

lilyqian 10y ago
Yes, This site is built for quickly view headlines in the programmer world when I don't have time browse site by site
- rrecuero 10y ago
  Solid. I have built something similar for myself, I was wondering about feeding a subset to Pocket

Eclyps 10y ago

Sadly it doesn't seem to go back further than April 2016 :(

elliottcarlson 10y ago
The author could seed it back with a HN dump like https://github.com/alixaxel/dump.HN https://github.com/alixaxel/dump.HN

andersonmvd 10y ago

Good job. Btw, there is a similar project here: http://reader.one/ http://reader.one/ (lol, just got a downvote)

jschulenklopper 10y ago
Well, that Reader One (One Reader?) only seems to show the current top N posts of a couple of popular sites (Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, Slashdot, Designer News, Lifehacker, ...). Is there a (hidden) feature to show the top posts on a daily, weekly or monthly level?
- andersonmvd 10y ago
  I don't think so. It's not my project either. It was featured months ago on product hunt and since then I didn't notice any update on the app.

lucb1e 10y ago

The thing I'm always missing on Reddit and HN is a sliding scale to tweak the time dropoff factor. For example I've been busy and check Reddit for the first time in four days. Ideally I'd see the most important stuff of the past 4 days, but the algorithm for "best" is not configurable and I roughly see what's hot today. Another example is a thoroughly boring lesson where you just keep hitting refresh and all the links are purple already. Here I'd slide the scale to "what's new in the past 5-30 minutes?" On reddit you can go for top posts of the day/week/month/year/alltime already and HN can do the same via the search feature. What I can't select is a granularity of less than a week and either longer or shorter than a day, and this website can't do that either, so for me at least this site has no use. I'm not saying you (OP) should build this. It's more of a shout out to the community in general, perhaps someone has tips (e.g. an app that can do this) or someone agrees and happens to know a reddit admin and tells them... just my thoughts. That's why I'm posting this, not to make you change this site ;) By the way, it might just be me, but the background... is more of a foreground, at least when I try to look at the website it jumps out immediately.

emir_ 10y ago
That's something that Digg did well. You could click "top today/24 hours/week/x days" and you would see the submissions with most diggs in 24 hours/week/days/etc.
- lucb1e 10y ago
  But why not make it a sliding scale, where you can pick the past 17.3 minutes if you wish to do so?
  - iLoch 10y ago
    Might be because it requires more complex database querying and/or is less cacheable.
    - milcron 10y ago
      Still... I'm unhappy with the current selection of offerings. Reddit lets you see the top posts from the past: hour, day, week, month, year, all time. Going from one month to a whole year is a huge jump! And personally I almost never look at top posts from the past hour. I would love to see top posts from the past 3-months and 6-months.

basch 10y ago

i have not found anything more powerful than panda for this kind of thing, its the perfect mix of customization and preconfiguration. http://usepanda.com/app/ http://usepanda.com/app/

haskal 10y ago
I got here through Panda. This app/plugin is well done.

KaoruAoiShiho 10y ago

Whoa. Thanks for showing me v2ex. Cool!

mraleman 10y ago

Sounds like a good way to read average articles and reinforce a filter bubble, click bait titles, and bike-shedding.

saq 10y ago

Great service! Good work but What is that backgound? HUrts my eyes in kind of funny way

crisopolis 10y ago

GitHub part is so flawed... because FreeCodeCamp inflate their popularity by requiring during onboarding for the user to star their repository yet keeping them at the top. It's like if I told everyone to vote up my Hacker News posts... and gave them the link to do it and GitHub has no remedy for that inflation.

sant0sk1 10y ago
This is why we recently retired FreeCodeCamp from Changelog Nightly[^1]. It was in the Top Starred list each and every night for months on end. Impressive, but not very interesting. [1]: https://changelog.com/recent-improvements-to-changelog-nightly/ https://changelog.com/recent-improvements-to-changelog-night...

jschulenklopper 10y ago

It's only for Hacker News, but Colin Parcival daily posts the top 10 HN posts on http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/. It lacks your feature to show the top posts on a weekly or monthly level (and more sources), which are cool features. (I'm not a big fan of the UI style thought.) Then there's also "hckr news", https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/, which shows the top 10 or top 20 per day, or the top 50% of every six hours. But also that one is just for Hacker News.

rayalez 10y ago

Awesome! You should really create a daily/weekly/monthly newsletter and rss feeds, I think it would be really valuable. How did you compile the top medium posts? Do they have an API?

anotherevan 10y ago
+1 for RSS feeds. I would definitely subscribe to weekly feeds for HN and Medium at the least.
timqian 10y ago
For Medium, I just fetch this link( medium.com/top-stories) and get top 10 links every day

jwebb99 10y ago

I don't like having blocks of headlines all over the screen. It kind of reminds me of a web portal from the 90s. I think something like http://reader.one/ http://reader.one/ (mentioned by another user on this page) provides a more readable interface.

timqian 10y ago

For people who are interested in the raw JSON data and how I get them. The JSON files and the'crawler' is also opensourced on github: https://github.com/timqian/my-headline-crawler https://github.com/timqian/my-headline-crawler

ramblerman 10y ago

Great concept. But ditch the hideous background. It may be just me, in which case ignore this, but I would expect more people to be put off by it.

ruler88 10y ago

You know what would be cool, if you can have an email list going and send these out on the daily basis to your users.

vassilevsky 10y ago

Really like the site. But you need to work on html entity decoding :)