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TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story
- amelius 9y agoWhy not just sort the topics of the last n hours by some criterion? Then you can choose how many stories you read depending on the amount of time you have. The criterion could be simple (e.g. amount of upvotes), or it could be based on personal interests (e.g. collaborative filtering).
- jventura 9y agoSomething like https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com?
- rayascott 9y agoThis is what I use. It's such a useful tool. I'm surprised Ycominator don't add it as a feature. Most popular over the last 24 hours? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=last24h&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...
- tim333 9y agoI guess YC like to support Algolia as it's a YC company https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14514389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14514389
- amelius 9y agoYes, although it's still missing the personalization (collaborative filtering) part.
- ClassyJacket 9y agoI actually have a use case for this: I try to ban myself from browsing websites because I think it ruins my attention span. Particularly, reading all the headlines so quickly. This is why I quit reddit entirely. But sometimes I have some time to kill and still need something to read, so going straight to the top HN story is nice. Suggestion: add a way to scroll to the next story, but still only show one at a time.
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- latte 9y agoI wish there was a service that shows HN pages with short previews of the linked stories included so that you had more info to decide whether to click the link, or go straight to the comments, or skip the story altogether.
- newscracker 9y agoThe preview should ideally be a summary for it to be useful. Many articles nowadays seem to stretch the topic a lot more than is necessary, with the paragraphs at the beginning being a lot of fluff.
- ivanfon 9y agoThere’s a bot on Reddit that automatically posts summaries of long articles (/u/autotldr). Looks like it uses the smmry.com API, and it works quite well. Something similar for HN would be interesting.
- mateja 9y agoThis may suit your needs http://hn.premii.com/ http://hn.premii.com/
- Flimm 9y agoDon't forget https://news.ycombinator.com/best https://news.ycombinator.com/best
- bringtheaction 9y agoWhat’s the difference between that and the front page? Is it like the difference between the “top” and “best” algorithms that Reddit use? How do these algorithms differ specifically on HN?
- ChrisSD 9y agoA cursory observation suggests "Top" prioritises the last 24 hours so has low rated but new items. "Best" seems to look at what's been popular in the last three days.
- nostalgeek 9y agoWhat I'd like to see is, instead of a wide range of topics displayed on the same page, unsorted and un-categorized, a tool that would only display the topics I'm interested in. For instance I don't want to read about politics on HN, only computer science, so an app that would auto-tag/filter links depending on the source/content would be welcome. To me that's the biggest flaw of HN, having to go through pages of link to only get what I'm interested in is painful.
- megous 9y agoI have a simple userscript that filters by the domain and by article title - blacklisting articles. You can get more technical hacker new by filtering out all news websites. It's quite effective.
- bringtheaction 9y agoAlternatively it could cross-reference posts with Reddit and see what subreddit they’re posted in and filter based on that.
- jaseemabid 9y agoYou just described subreddits.
- leadingthenet 9y agoSo then why are you on HN instead of Reddit?
- nullp0tr 9y agocheck out https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs it is usually just computer science.
- humbleferret 9y agoSimilar to https://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/
- hawski 9y agoThere is http://n-gate.com/ http://n-gate.com/ if one wants a week's worth top stories with a bit of commentary.
- bringtheaction 9y agoTheir security check captcha doesn’t load for me.
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- bbx 9y agoI tend to use http://hckrnews.com/ http://hckrnews.com/ and only display the top 10 stories. What I particularly like is the day-split, the high density of information, and the color coding: orange means "Still on the homepage" and grey means "Already visited" (which applies to both the story and the comments).