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I've been looking a bit more at "top of the week" on alt websites, and a bit less at the HN homepage. I think you can get most of it like this; maybe you could

by ekzy 9y ago

I've been looking a bit more at "top of the week" on alt websites, and a bit less at the HN homepage. I think you can get most of it like this; maybe you could try. (e.g. http://www.hntoplinks.com/week http://www.hntoplinks.com/week or https://news.ycombinator.com/best https://news.ycombinator.com/best)

kakarot 9y ago
This works well if you are mainly a lurker, but not if you're looking to engage in a conversation while it's hot. For me, the article is often just an excuse for discourse around its themes, which I find much more stimulating. My personal angle for solving this problem of spending too much time sifting through news/comments is an auto-tagging and summarization platform built in Python with rss feeds as both input and output, sending the output to a self-hosted TTRSS instance. I plan to also store the output in a database with robust query support.
- CaptSpify 9y ago
  Interesting. I use ttrss as well, do you have a blog-post or anything about how you are doing that?
  - kakarot 9y ago
    I'm still in the prototyping phase, and juggling it between work and another side project. I have a decent understanding of the stack I will need. I have feed parsing and HTML/XML stripping in place, currently I'm comparing auto-tagging libraries and seeing if any of them meets all of my needs. If you're interested in bouncing around ideas and possibly contributing at some point (I plan to open source after the research and legwork is done), let me know.
    - CaptSpify 9y ago
      Nah, I wish I could but I don't have time |:( I was hoping for something more drop-in ready, but if you do open-source it, I'd be interested. It sounds cool
- overcast 9y ago
  This is for HN only?
  - kakarot 9y ago
    No, the scope will be a few aggregators, news websites, blogs, twitter, and a few others.

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I've been looking a bit more at "top of the week" on alt websites, and a bit less at the HN homepage. I think you can get most of it like this; maybe you could

by ekzy 9y ago

kakarot 9y ago
This works well if you are mainly a lurker, but not if you're looking to engage in a conversation while it's hot. For me, the article is often just an excuse for discourse around its themes, which I find much more stimulating. My personal angle for solving this problem of spending too much time sifting through news/comments is an auto-tagging and summarization platform built in Python with rss feeds as both input and output, sending the output to a self-hosted TTRSS instance. I plan to also store the output in a database with robust query support.
- CaptSpify 9y ago
  Interesting. I use ttrss as well, do you have a blog-post or anything about how you are doing that?
  - kakarot 9y ago
    I'm still in the prototyping phase, and juggling it between work and another side project. I have a decent understanding of the stack I will need. I have feed parsing and HTML/XML stripping in place, currently I'm comparing auto-tagging libraries and seeing if any of them meets all of my needs. If you're interested in bouncing around ideas and possibly contributing at some point (I plan to open source after the research and legwork is done), let me know.
    - CaptSpify 9y ago
      Nah, I wish I could but I don't have time |:( I was hoping for something more drop-in ready, but if you do open-source it, I'd be interested. It sounds cool
- overcast 9y ago
  This is for HN only?
  - kakarot 9y ago
    No, the scope will be a few aggregators, news websites, blogs, twitter, and a few others.