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FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

77 points by rmontanaro 15y ago

ch0wn 15y ago
The filtering works surprisingly well. Thank you for building this!
BasDirks 15y ago
First "app" on HN in 2 months that I actually _need_ (as defined by myself). Very useful, thank you.
ghiculescu 15y ago
Is it possible to get a link to the comments page as well as to the article in question?
- rmontanaro 15y ago
  It is. In the future, the you'll find a link to the comments on the description of the feed.
JoachimSchipper 15y ago
Is it possible to exclude specific things? E.g. "50+ -groupon -climate".
- rcfox 15y ago
  Yeah, I would like to be able to get everything except for a few keywords.
- jconnop 15y ago
  I'd also love this ability.
foob 15y ago
It works great and looks very useful, but there is one thing that you might want to change. Your example is "Startups, Google, Apple" but when you enter this string it actually adds "Startups,", "Google,", and "Apple". It would be more intuitive if you break the entry up into separate tags removing ", " or "," instead of just " ". Edit: You might also consider clearing the text box after adding a tag. It felt a bit awkward having to hit ctrl-a before typing each time I wanted to enter something new.
ColinWright 15y ago
Doesn't work for me, but probably because the machine I usually use to access HN is running Firefox 1.5 on SuSE 10.1. One of the things I love about HN is that it runs prefectly on such an old browser/OS combination. EDIT: Wow, a downvote despite providing concrete feedback to the submitter? Interesting. I might have to re-think my entire position about the HN "community" as expressed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660578 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660578
- BasDirks 15y ago
  Don't be butthurt over one downvoter. Here, I upvoted you.
- Simon_M 15y ago
  Out of interest, why the old browser/OS combo?
  - ColinWright 15y ago
    Long story. Older hardware, doesn't do flashy stuff, helps stop me procrastinating, runs lots of low priority, background tasks that will get broken by upgrading, and so on. The fast, whizzy machines with new OSs and up-to-date browsers get used for serious, work-related stuff. Not for HN.
    - mnutt 15y ago
      Hasn't Firefox 1.5 lacked security updates since it was discontinued ~4 years ago? Why not Chrome or something?
      - ColinWright 15y ago
        Yes, true, but I don't go click on much. Anything potentially interesting I actually forward to another machine that's more secure and look at it there. There really isn't much joy in trying to hack that older machine. It's so old, most attack vectors don't work anymore anyway. And I have other protection in place that I won't discuss.
cyanbane 15y ago
This is great, future enhancements I would love to see: Subject filter (filter Ask HN) User criteria - 'always on' or 'always filter' by user (always show from rmontanaro/never show from cyanbane) show/filter x levels of comments (ie show 'bitcoin' unless there are 4+ levels of comments at some point)
smharris65 15y ago
Is there any way to put the topics next to the link? If I type several topics I get a list of links but can't quickly see which topic belongs to which link.
binzup 15y ago
i cant beleive bitcoin isnt one of the popular topics, lol
AdamGibbins 15y ago
Can you add the ability to link to the HN comment page instead of directly to the article please? I find they're often more insightful than the article itself. Would also love the ability to specifically blacklist keywords. Other than that awesome work, thanks.
- adam_albrecht 15y ago
  I'd really like to see both links, as well.
dadads 15y ago
This is a cool UI for doing search, really inspiring! I hope you won't mind me using this concept for my next app creations.
rmontanaro 15y ago
Hi all, thank you for the reception. To let you know, I wanted to build the simplest thing that could possibly work at first, but everything is feasible in the future. Blacklists, better browser support (I've tested it only on the newest of the five most used, sorry about that), and to provide more options. I'll work on all that as soon as my college exams are over.
- sbierwagen 15y ago
  It would be handy if there was a volume limit: three posts per day, or one, or one a week.
feedus 15y ago
very cool. I'd love to see a list of tags that other people use.
plasma 15y ago
Very nice UI! Simple and easy to use, well done.

77 points by rmontanaro 15y ago

ch0wn 15y ago

The filtering works surprisingly well. Thank you for building this!

BasDirks 15y ago

First "app" on HN in 2 months that I actually _need_ (as defined by myself). Very useful, thank you.

ghiculescu 15y ago

Is it possible to get a link to the comments page as well as to the article in question?

rmontanaro 15y ago
It is. In the future, the you'll find a link to the comments on the description of the feed.

JoachimSchipper 15y ago

Is it possible to exclude specific things? E.g. "50+ -groupon -climate".

rcfox 15y ago
Yeah, I would like to be able to get everything except for a few keywords.
jconnop 15y ago
I'd also love this ability.

foob 15y ago

It works great and looks very useful, but there is one thing that you might want to change. Your example is "Startups, Google, Apple" but when you enter this string it actually adds "Startups,", "Google,", and "Apple". It would be more intuitive if you break the entry up into separate tags removing ", " or "," instead of just " ". Edit: You might also consider clearing the text box after adding a tag. It felt a bit awkward having to hit ctrl-a before typing each time I wanted to enter something new.

ColinWright 15y ago

Doesn't work for me, but probably because the machine I usually use to access HN is running Firefox 1.5 on SuSE 10.1. One of the things I love about HN is that it runs prefectly on such an old browser/OS combination. EDIT: Wow, a downvote despite providing concrete feedback to the submitter? Interesting. I might have to re-think my entire position about the HN "community" as expressed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660578 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2660578

BasDirks 15y ago
Don't be butthurt over one downvoter. Here, I upvoted you.
Simon_M 15y ago
Out of interest, why the old browser/OS combo?
- ColinWright 15y ago
  Long story. Older hardware, doesn't do flashy stuff, helps stop me procrastinating, runs lots of low priority, background tasks that will get broken by upgrading, and so on. The fast, whizzy machines with new OSs and up-to-date browsers get used for serious, work-related stuff. Not for HN.
  - mnutt 15y ago
    Hasn't Firefox 1.5 lacked security updates since it was discontinued ~4 years ago? Why not Chrome or something?
    - ColinWright 15y ago
      Yes, true, but I don't go click on much. Anything potentially interesting I actually forward to another machine that's more secure and look at it there. There really isn't much joy in trying to hack that older machine. It's so old, most attack vectors don't work anymore anyway. And I have other protection in place that I won't discuss.

cyanbane 15y ago

This is great, future enhancements I would love to see: Subject filter (filter Ask HN) User criteria - 'always on' or 'always filter' by user (always show from rmontanaro/never show from cyanbane) show/filter x levels of comments (ie show 'bitcoin' unless there are 4+ levels of comments at some point)

smharris65 15y ago

Is there any way to put the topics next to the link? If I type several topics I get a list of links but can't quickly see which topic belongs to which link.

binzup 15y ago

i cant beleive bitcoin isnt one of the popular topics, lol

AdamGibbins 15y ago

Can you add the ability to link to the HN comment page instead of directly to the article please? I find they're often more insightful than the article itself. Would also love the ability to specifically blacklist keywords. Other than that awesome work, thanks.

adam_albrecht 15y ago
I'd really like to see both links, as well.

dadads 15y ago

This is a cool UI for doing search, really inspiring! I hope you won't mind me using this concept for my next app creations.

rmontanaro 15y ago

Hi all, thank you for the reception. To let you know, I wanted to build the simplest thing that could possibly work at first, but everything is feasible in the future. Blacklists, better browser support (I've tested it only on the newest of the five most used, sorry about that), and to provide more options. I'll work on all that as soon as my college exams are over.

sbierwagen 15y ago
It would be handy if there was a volume limit: three posts per day, or one, or one a week.

feedus 15y ago

very cool. I'd love to see a list of tags that other people use.

plasma 15y ago

Very nice UI! Simple and easy to use, well done.