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Show HN: Read the frontpage of today's New York Times

• mawise 6y ago
  Hi, I'm the author. I was inspired by a post here on HN a few months ago about someone who put today's paper on a giant e-ink display. This link is just a helper redirect to the New York Times' website. For anyone interested, it's just AWS CloudFront for HTTPS directing to a lambda function to parse the current date and return a redirect. I've been using this as my primary non-tech news source for a while, and I really appreciate the lack of adds and pop-ups, and the inability to follow links to anything. It restricts my news-reading to just the front page and that's felt pretty healthy. Sort of like the opposite of this recent XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2371/ https://xkcd.com/2371/
  • da-x 6y ago
    Thanks! This is really needed in a world of constantly distractedly updated news feeds and doomscrolling. I'll try having this in a tab, F5 once a day. Just to get that feel of "I know what's going on".
    • mawise 6y ago
      Glad to hear you like it!
• mooreed 6y ago
  Is it still working? I tried it and it redirects to an NYT CDN page.
  • lioeters 6y ago
    Apparently, the site's whole purpose is to redirect to the current day's NYT front page. It didn't work for me either, but yesterday's link works: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/18/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/10/18/nytfrontpage/scan... Perhaps the redirect logic should be adjusted to link to the previous day, until the current day's page is published/ready.