Newsconomy [1] was a website with a pretty similar idea. It never gained much traction afaik, but the developer seemed pretty passionate about it [2]. I believe

Newsconomy [1] was a website with a pretty similar idea. It never gained much traction afaik, but the developer seemed pretty passionate about it [2]. I believe this [3] is the developer's current page, in case you wish to get in contact with him for this project. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20190404134937/http://newsconomy.com/tag/programming http://web.archive.org/web/20190404134937/http://newsconomy.... [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20190423090552/http://nickmudge.info/post/request-for-input-for-a-new-kind-of-link-sharing-news-website http://web.archive.org/web/20190423090552/http://nickmudge.i... [3] https://dev.to/mudgen https://dev.to/mudgen