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Hacker News but for independent blogs
- chmod775 3mo agoSome of these submissions would put satirists out of a job.
- holtwick 3mo agoI love it!
- viermalbe 3mo agoBubbles dev here, thanks for the mention
- stakhanov 3mo agoI'm curious: What software is driving this? Is it a re-skin of the lobste.rs or HN open source software, or is it its own thing? EDIT: ...just realized that's in the FAQ. > Is it open source? > Not yet. Maybe someday.
- viermalbe 3mo agoIt runs on Go + sqlite on a Hetzner machine, built from scratch, not a re-skin.
- Semaphor 3mo agoClearly inspired by HN, there are few sites where I have to zoom in to get any kind of readability ;)
- embedding-shape 3mo ago> not a re-skin Is that something you're frequently accused of, or why the "disclaimer"?
- BrenBarn 3mo agoThe comment they were replying to specifically asked if it was a re-skin.
- embedding-shape 3mo agoAh yes of course, finally paid the price of reading comments in isolation. Thanks and sorry :)
- viermalbe 3mo agoNot really, I just picked it up from the initial question from stakhanov.
- drcongo 3mo agoThey were directly answering the post above which asked if it's a re-skin.
- TopHatHipster 3mo agoWhat type of Hetzner box are you running this on?
- AbuAssar 3mo agohow do you decide which blog is included in the aggregation?
- ShinyLeftPad 3mo agotry about page, it explains
- viermalbe 3mo agoYou can find the criteria in the FAQ: https://bubbles.town/faq#sources https://bubbles.town/faq#sources
- RobotToaster 3mo agoAny plans to add Lemmy federation? It would be nice to be able to follow it as a Lemmy community since it works like a federated hn/Reddit.
- samtheDamned 3mo agoThis would be really cool. With the process of allowing fediverse logins it would be nice to also be able to use lemmy accounts since right now those don't seem to work. (That might be related to the HN hug though I'm not sure).
- exitnode 3mo agoVery cool but I would like to be able to create an account with my mail address instead of using a Mastodon account because I am trying to avoid social media.
- solid_fuel 3mo agoIt looks like there's an RSS feed at the bottom. If you don't want to use the social aspects of the site, maybe just use that in an RSS reader? *Link: https://bubbles.town/rss https://bubbles.town/rss
- holtwick 3mo agoThe briefing pages also have RSS, this way you see the most relevant stuff https://bubbles.town/editions https://bubbles.town/editions
- DavideNL 3mo agoHmmz the "briefing" rss feed can't be filtered by "minimum votes", i believe...?
- viermalbe 3mo agoThe briefing rss feed contains one entry per day with a link to that days briefing page. The briefing itself cannot be customized, it's the same for everybody. For the list views you can use the filter menu to filter by min votes or subscribe to any of the min vote rss feeds.
- AbuAssar 3mo agoI'm curios why you are avoiding social media?
- globalnode 3mo agoIts a scam
- janaagaard 3mo agoI think the links should open in the same window (like they do here on HN) instead of in a new tab/window. If I want a separate tab, I can Cmd+click and Browsers don't have the reverse option for opening in the same window.
- AbuAssar 3mo agonope, I prefer open in new tab by default
- kpopendurer 3mo agoIn general, it's better not to force an action onto users. You might prefer things opening in a new tab, but you always have that option. If it's forced on users, it is frustrating for those who would prefer that not to happen.
- ffsm8 3mo agoAnd yet we're here, discussing how a developer should change their own application because their preference is wrong If you don't like it, adjust it for yourself with an extension or script.
- adrithmetiqa 3mo agoExactly. This is a design choice and there’s no right or wrong here.
- jaapz 3mo agothe difference is that with tab-open default, there is no way for me to open the link in this window with this-window default (or actually, the browser-default-default), I can middle click and it'll open in a new tab regardless pretty funny to have this discussion though, takes me back to the HTML4 and XHTML days
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- vee-kay 3mo agoAh, this reminds me of StumbleUpon.
- socalgal2 3mo agoJust curious but isn't this just digg, metafilter?
- sailfast 3mo agoCame here to say this. Perhaps it will work this time if it tries not to scale wildly, take investor money, and just do one thing well with a smaller group? But this kind of site has been around.
- altairprime 3mo agoNo, those are general-any link posting. This is more like Planet Mozilla, which used to be maintained as a curated aggregator of the personal blogs of contributors to the Mozilla project, which was not filtered exclusively to their Mozilla-content posts. Bubbles accretes on a different criteria than that, but at its core is similarly centered first around ‘curated authors’ rather than ‘curated links’, and then second around publishing all posts by a curated author. That curation is what makes it more valuable than a generic-any site aggregator like Digg or HN: a post by a curated human is much more likely to be interesting than the majority slop of /new on any content-first aggregation site (Imgur is a great example of this!).
- ochronus 3mo agoThis is lovely
- nathell 3mo agoI’ve been perusing Bubbles increasingly often since discovering that my blog is syndicated there, a few weeks ago. It feels really refreshing compared to doomscrolling of social media, or indeed even to HN. It’s so diverse and humane. The indie blogosphere is coming to life. Kudos to the author. A great idea, splendidly executed. I hope it grows and doesn’t change much.
- flir 3mo agoJust glanced at the front page - it seems to be very "blog posts about blogging" (4 out of the top 5 posts right now). Is it always like that? The "My" tab looks like it covers the same ground as a feed reader would. I wonder who the audience is for that feature.
- jl6 3mo agoIs blogging always like that? Always has been.
- flir 3mo agoFrom memory, there was a long tail of blogs like that way back when, but a core of solid, interesting content. I have an expectation that an aggregator would bubble the interesting stuff up, and the self-referential stuff down. But maybe this is just content the audience finds interesting.
- jl6 3mo agoThere is still solid and interesting content, it’s just that the material is so diverse that attention is spread thinly. Meanwhile, blogging is the one thing bloggers definitely have in common, so the attention is more concentrated. It’s a failing of aggregators that they optimize for attention concentration rather than interestingness. But is there even such a thing, objectively?
- flir 3mo ago
- rsolva 3mo agoOh, great, I can log in with my GoToSocial instance to comment and vote! I will definitely add this site alongside my HN addiction :)
- pchm 3mo agoI submitted a somewhat similar project yesterday to Show HN (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring, with zero community features. I call it bubblewire. Funny. I had no prior knowledge of bubbles.town until seeing it here now. bubbles.town looks nice! Hope to see more projects that aim to bring back the good old web. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552985
- latexr 3mo ago> (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring One reason for it not resonating might be that it’s yet another opaque algorithmic feed in a moment in time where people are getting sick and tired of them and wary of their manipulative features. And HN is so inundated with AI submissions that having yet another Show HN about it is uninteresting to many. Would you visit HN if it were just a link aggregator whose ranking was decided by hidden logic of a machine? A lot of people wouldn’t. We’re a social species, there is value in human curation—especially when driven by the community—that’s inherently lacking from algorithmic curation (AI or otherwise).
- pchm 3mo agoThat's true, provided that all activity (comments, voting) here is still coming from actual humans. That's no longer the case for community websites, I'm afraid. It's an experiment made for the web of 2026, where you can no longer tell if the users are humans or bots. If nobody's interested in that idea, I accept that.
- akoboldfrying 3mo ago> Would you visit HN if were just a link aggregator whose ranking was decided by hidden logic of a machine? I assumed it was...? If not, who or what decides the ranking moment-by-moment? dang?
- agmater 3mo agoIt's based on votes mainly. This is covered in the FAQ [1] and the exact algorithm has also been shared in the past [2]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013
- ozgrakkurt 3mo agoThis is it!! I can finally leave reading comments on hn or get bamboozeled by ai posts masquerading as something technical
- whereistejas 3mo agoThis reminds me of Kagi's Small Web: https://kagi.com/smallweb/ https://kagi.com/smallweb/ or https://kagi.com/smallweb/river https://kagi.com/smallweb/river
- RobotToaster 3mo agoIt would be great if this supported federation as a Lemmy community, given that Lemmy already has votes.
- bovermyer 3mo agoThe Briefings have been most useful for me. It feels more curated and less firehose-y. https://bubbles.town/briefing https://bubbles.town/briefing
- frereubu 3mo agoWould love a version of this on HN.
- ryanbuening 3mo agohttps://hcker.news https://hcker.news
- swed420 3mo agoalso https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com for a slightly different take on the concept
- lapcat 3mo agoAlso, showing the excerpts from the post text is vastly superior to just showing the post titles.
- viermalbe 3mo agoI currently work on a feature to show excerpts (and read time) in the list views as well. But I will wait with the deployment until the Hacker News visitor wave has calmed down.
- lapcat 3mo ago> and read time If anything, I would recommend a word count instead. Word count is objective. Read time is subjective, variable, just an estimate, and probably based on word count anyway.
- gus_massa 3mo ago
- HardwareLust 3mo agoPlease make AI a category.
- atulvi 3mo ago> "5011 independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you." That line is so claude.
- kenanfyi 3mo agoI thought the same. I like the idea of it and probably use it to find nice blogs, but it looks like AI-coded.
- zingar 3mo agoIs this “hacker news”-esque in terms of being a social bookmarking site? I don’t see much by way of the same topics, and don’t think the difference is only whether it’s Indy or not.
- agup792 3mo agoI like it, but shouldn't this be part of "Show HN"?
- 1317 3mo agolooks quite nice, but i always find myself disappointed that all the content on the "small web" is just posting /about/ the small web, rather than doing anything interesting on it 14/30 of the posts on the top page are just about making websites
- cosmicgadget 3mo agoI can say from experience that the small web has considerable breadth. I think what you're seeing here is a product of the small, curated list of sites combined with the recency bias of a feed data view. You'll see similar results from the various indieweb indexes that primarily use the kagi RSS list from github; this list attracts a specific segment of the blogosphere.
- 1317 3mo agothanks for recommending kagi small web, just going through their random posts page i've already seen lots of nice stuff on there
- altairprime 3mo agoLong ago when we didn’t have Movable Type and every blog was either a work journal on a gopher prefix or a hand-maintained directory of HTML files, this was always the case; a significant fraction, if not an outright majority, of the people willing to try out new styles of interaction are also going to post introspectively about styles of interaction. Developing communities requires discussing developing communities, after all! So it is normal for something that is ‘bubbling’ up from the cauldron of experiments to have a degree of navel-gazing inherent in it — and given how catastrophically blogging went once it lost that aspect, I can accept some amount of ‘seeing how the social structure sausage is made’ if it shifts the overall scales back towards meaningful.
- TacticalCoder 3mo agoHoly smoke the bullshit I see upvoted on that site frontpage mate! Fitness is "white supremacism"!? A few lines from that "the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle" frontpage articles (that title, already): > I cannot help but see that “Pinterest clean girl fitness and fruit bowl gua sha yoga mat pilates in the forest” content as covert white supremacy and eugenicist ideals Let people live ffs! > it’s always white or racially ambiguous people, "Racially ambiuous"? For a start it's an attempt at manipulating thought by manipulating speech. Then it's deeply racist: it's wanting to categorize people by race, to hate on them. In this case putting, for example, latino-whites (I'm not saying it, TFA is) or half-asian/half-white (like my nephew) as "white" to hate on whites. It has a name: racism. Anti-white racism, but racism (usually double-down by explaining that it's impossible to be racists towards whites for anti-white racism is impossible). And at the gym and among my friends, I see a lot of these "yoga girls" are with... asian genes. Same online among the fitness "influencers" with many subscribers. There are also a huge lot of incredibly muscular and fit... Blacks. What a surprise: blacks ain't white. How can someone be filled with so much hate (including, potentially, hate for its own race) to write such hateful texts? Despicable author, writing hateful words, to please people with really dark hearts.
- mikestew 3mo agoMore of a meta discussion of an aggregator, don’t you think? It would likely be more productive to go complain in the comments of that singular blog.
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- intrikate 3mo agoThis reads like a kneejerk reaction to the title, which I understand. I think it's deliberately written that way to draw you in, but I get how it could be upsetting. Her point isn't that "fitness is white supremacy," and not even remotely close. Just that the social media and culture around wellness and fitness can give off white supremacist, fascist energy by presenting an extremely unobtainable and yet highly idealized state of being, where everyone is very thin and white and fits within the stereotypes of the gender assigned to them, which is not remotely how the world at large can be. Actually, reading it again, I don't see the author calling out anyone in particular, just noting that the culture around a thing they otherwise enjoy makes them uncomfortable, and why.
- azhenley 3mo agoSearch doesn’t seem to work.
- rvba 3mo agoAo refreshing that new links open in new windows - such a time saver dor those pf us who open hundreds of windows. Top does not sort? Also "top" is what exactly? All time? Today? How do you defend against brigading?
- kwar13 3mo agoyou might find this little extension i wrote for HN: https://github.com/kavehtehrani/hackernews-savedyouaclick https://github.com/kavehtehrani/hackernews-savedyouaclick
- Honest_Carrot 3mo agoI agree, clarity would be nice here. Similarly, I would like to be able to see top week/month/year.
- rirze 3mo ago> https://tuesdaynight.blog/i-want-to-go-to-a-furry-con/ https://tuesdaynight.blog/i-want-to-go-to-a-furry-con/ Ok. I think I'm good without this.
- the_lonely_phon 3mo agoContent aside, not my thing either, I actually did really like this one. It has so much personality it reminded me of the early MySpace days before we all became identical looking Facebook timelines.
- nozzlegear 3mo agoVisually difficult to read with all of the colors, but I thought the content was good.
- zimzalabimzim 3mo agoi was wondering where all this traffic was coming from lmao. this is my blog. i actually am not super familiar with JS so i somehow broke my easy-reading mode toggle but usually its there, black background on white text. sorry!!
- nozzlegear 3mo agoNo worries! It was probably there, I didn't actually look for it. I just figured the colors were part of the vibe you were going for with your blog so I read through it regardless. Good luck with the convention if you decide to go!
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- Finnucane 3mo agoIt's not stated explicitly, but I would assume that 'independent' blog means no Substack, no Medium, etc? Is that the case?
- viermalbe 3mo agoIndependent does not mean self-hosted. Blog platforms are ok if the content is not monetized, no adverts, no paywalls, no self-marketing. For full criteria see the FAQs.
- Finnucane 3mo agoIsn't the whole point of Substack, etc. monetization, one way or another? Maybe I'm just a cranky old man, but that to me goes against 'independent'. But then, I'm not just old enough to remember when blogs weren't monetized, but remembering perusing Factsheet Five to see if there were any interesting new zines to trade with. Maybe you could mark the Substack blogs with a little swastika like an asterisk.
- NoSalt 3mo agoI was there, literally, 5 seconds and already saw a headline that pissed me off. No thanks, I don't need any extra stress in my life.
- derangedHorse 3mo agoSame haha
- the_lonely_phon 3mo agoWas it the one where doing yoga and eating healthy is a white supremacist dog whistle?
- NoSalt 3mo agoBingo!
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- eduction 3mo agoThe title is wrong as they are not just different in sourcing but topic. A better title would be "Hacker News but for general content from independent blogs." Hacker News but for independent blogs would be the same topic as HN but only stuff from independent blogs. This is avowedly broad: "Hacker News and Lobste.rs have community voting figured out, but non-tech content gets drowned by the tech majority" https://bubbles.town/about https://bubbles.town/about
- altairprime 3mo agoYou can email the mods and ask them to consider your edits; they may well agree. Just include a link to your thread with reasoning here so they can log the change in reply if they do so.
- KerryJones 3mo agoCurious on your "Top" algorithm? I see many 1-voted items there. Also, how do you vet your blogs?
- ChrisArchitect 3mo agofirst thing that caught my eye was "Bubbles mentioned in Verge newsletter" .... that's a post from a "Hand-picked blog"? Thought it was supposed to be non-tech? Definitely don't want to see posts about tech posts from the sloppy tech duplicating press. We have HN for that!
- altairprime 3mo agoAh, I love a good classic curated-authors aggregator. The days of yore have returned! Gives me hope. And thank you for having posts open to HN, that’s a brilliant way to augment rather than displace. On first glance, the first several posts are more interesting than HN; that’s a good sign. But there’s no hide link to mask the AI posts I don’t care about; perhaps one appears after signup? But. HN’s single-post mute method is treading water at best versus the flood, and with the sixth post on the homepage being outsourced-to-AI, clearly that will persist at Bubbles. Can I mute specific blogs that are just repeatedly posting ‘I subcontracted my project to AI and am now taking credit as if I did the work myself’ on this site? If so, I’d give this a full week tryout immediately.
- viermalbe 3mo agoHide button appears after sign-in. You can eather hide individual posts or specific blogs.
- altairprime 3mo agoExcellent! Thanks!
- sdsd 3mo agoI love this, but while we're here I was wondering if any of you could recommend small niche Youtube channels that you love? I don't care what the niche is, I just love passionate oddballs.
- Otternonsenz 3mo agoThe CrafsMan is great, a lovely voice to listen to as he works, and makes a bunch of fun diy crafts. A good amount of videos to work thru: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCrafsMan https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCrafsMan
- nuxi 3mo agoA few random links: https://www.youtube.com/c/ISHITANIFURNITURE https://www.youtube.com/c/ISHITANIFURNITURE https://www.youtube.com/@Knobs https://www.youtube.com/@Knobs https://www.youtube.com/@kiwami-japan https://www.youtube.com/@kiwami-japan https://www.youtube.com/@NileRed/videos https://www.youtube.com/@NileRed/videos https://www.youtube.com/@GirlWithTheDogs/videos https://www.youtube.com/@GirlWithTheDogs/videos https://www.youtube.com/@bernadettebanner/videos https://www.youtube.com/@bernadettebanner/videos https://www.youtube.com/@shootimpro https://www.youtube.com/@shootimpro https://www.youtube.com/@DrMattRegan https://www.youtube.com/@DrMattRegan https://www.youtube.com/@clabretro https://www.youtube.com/@clabretro https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections https://www.youtube.com/@BrickTechnology https://www.youtube.com/@BrickTechnology https://www.youtube.com/@kellyeld2323 https://www.youtube.com/@kellyeld2323
- pillars 3mo agoSorry, I copied my old comment. Some Machining related channels on youtube: this old tony, Chronova engineering, cylo's garage, inheritance machining, breaking taps, blondie hacks, tarkka, dan gelbert, Jonesey Makes, Eric(with a K), Clough42, Alec steele, NBR Works, Not An engineer, Stefan Gotteswinter, oxtoolco, ROBRENZ, MrCrispin, Clickspring, Artisan Makes, MH Anything, Jellyfish machine,Maker B, And also there is great course on precision engineering by Alex slocum
- stanac 3mo agoBen Syversen > Documentaries featuring stories from the history of math and science https://www.youtube.com/@bensyversen https://www.youtube.com/@bensyversen Integza is no longer small, but still good, home built rocket engines https://www.youtube.com/@integza https://www.youtube.com/@integza edit: formatting
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- mmarian 3mo agoI'd love to see something like this but a bit more business-y, although not big tech business, neither just indie hacking promos. Maybe I'm too picky...
- altairprime 3mo agoThere aren't many business-y people with public blogs that aren't just PR outlets for, if not outright hosted by, their business. They do exist but it's a very quantity-limiting criteria, as (unlike the general population) success in business tends to be accompanied by wariness of speaking openly in publicly-indexed venues such as blogs. No shame in having a picky preference! But worth keeping in mind. (ps. You might appreciate the Scope of Work slack!)
- mmarian 3mo agoYou're right. Had a look at Scope of Work, looks really cool but I'm not into any hardware whatsoever unfortunately. Appreciate the suggestion though!
- altairprime 3mo agoRands slack? It’s really, really not my cup of tea but if you’re dead set on a high concentration of MBA and can tolerate what I assume is a lot of support for AI, it’s probably the one community I know of that’s open to walk-ups.
- mmarian 3mo agoLooks interesting, been thinking of moving into tech leadership. I'll sign up to it, thanks for the suggestion!
- bad_username 3mo agoOpen... "the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle" Close... guess I will stick to HN
- easterncalculus 3mo agoExactly what I thought. The beginning of the end of the free and open internet was the rise of the walled garden. The final nail in the coffin is that every search result for "independent blogs" and "free and open internet" these days goes to politically challenged morons like this. Simply put, the people running their own websites and blogs aren't "normal" anymore. The "normal" people are on the big platforms, unfortunately.
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- sph 3mo agoDespite its faults, what makes HN different is that it has principled moderators.
- wwfn 3mo agoExcited to see this get traction! Federated voting and comments on top of RSS has an indie-web elegance to it. Indulging in meta-commentary: The HN submit history for bubbles.town is interesting. Took 7 tries to reach the front page. The final viral title resembles the supposed-LLM-tell "X not Y." Coincidence or evidence that the models touch on a useful way to communicate ideas. (I only looked because I submitted the one 2 weeks ago.) 436 points 3 days ago Hacker News but for independent blogs 3 points 4 days ago Bubbles – community-ranked feed of blog posts 3 points 13 days ago A community-ranked feed of blog posts from curated sources 3 points 20 days ago Bubbles – an HN-like link aggregator for the non-tech internet 1 point 28 days ago Bubbles: Blog Post Discovery 4 points 50 days ago Bubbles 6 points 75 days ago Bubbles – HN-like frontpage for personal indie blogs
- jdiff 3mo ago"X but for Y" has been around for a good long time, it long predates (and I would say is significantly distinct from) "not X, but Y"
- wwfn 3mo agoI think they're both "negative parallelism" constructs. Either way, neither are new. The prose on https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-post-training/ https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-pos... changed how I think about it: the framework is useful for reasoning, not lazy writing. This bubbles.town submission's title could be light evidence of negative parallelism's utility. (Or, more likely, just the stochastic nature of what's popular when)
- throwawayk7h 3mo agoVery exciting! And I like the fediverse integration too. > $N independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you. This sounds a bit AI-generated (i.e. bland). I would just remove that line entirely from the UI. > top / new / hot / my this is a non-parallel construction[1], "my" sounds weird here to an english speaker. These can all be read as adjuncts if you change it to "mine". [1] https://www.grammar.com/nonparallel-construction https://www.grammar.com/nonparallel-construction
- siddboots 3mo agoI saw it and completed it as “top posts” “new posts” “hot posts” “my posts”.
- casey2 3mo agoWhat happens when the instance admin gets bored? Fediverse doesn't to my knowledge have a good migration policy. I can't imagine this is recommended since even the forum hosting related proposals [1] requires email. [1] https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-521a-representing-actors-public-keys/3380/34 https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-521a-representing-...
- freetonik 3mo agoNice. Glad these kinds of projects exist. Obligatory mention of Minifeed, a curated directory, reader and search engine for personal blogs: https://minifeed.net/ https://minifeed.net/ I’ve been running it for a few years now. You can build a personal feed, follow others, see related blogs and posts, and use full-text search across all blogs. Feel free to submit your own or someone else’s blog here: https://minifeed.net/suggest https://minifeed.net/suggest
- hackerbeat 3mo agoLove these niche experiments. Rap Dash is great too in case you're into rap: https://rapdash.com/ https://rapdash.com/
- johnea 3mo agoCan you pipe those posts to an IRC channel?
- dchuk 3mo agoNice job, clean and well built. I built something very similar, with a focus on engineering/product/startup blogs https://engineered.at https://engineered.at What's your tech stack? Mine is pretty vanilla ruby on rails, while my site is closed source, I did open source a rails engine for adaptive monitoring of RSS feeds that does a lot of the heavy lifting: https://github.com/dchuk/source_monitor https://github.com/dchuk/source_monitor
- adrianwaj 3mo agoThe summaries are a great idea. It would be interesting to extract devices and inventions from articles to create an "inventions race" (as opposed to "arms race.") It could be used to establish prior-art and negate a lot of expensive and unnecessary patents that end up going nowhere or used for trolling. That's something I have been thinking about for tinkeri.ng. Something comparable to a patent archive - but used for networking and sharing. Would end up looking like a wiki with articles getting pingbacks.
- dchuk 3mo agoIt’s funny, sites like these are so divisive. I’ve gotten as many “do not llm summarize anything for me” as I’ve gotten “this is super handy!” responses. I like them, so I’m keeping them. Interesting idea overall. Could be generalized to just general trend identification I think based on named entity recognition (like google trends). Over time you can trace first mentions of stuff and buzz over time. I’ll noodle on it.
- adrianwaj 3mo agoYep, you could have an options menu (like at hcker.news) and have the ability to switch the summaries off or even extend them? Could also make them blacker and larger? Also, looks like ArticlesBase stopped in 2024 - maybe offer a way for users to upload articles, summarize them and then people can micropay to read? Maybe just charge for older articles? Can also charge for extra long articles? Put everything into an LLM?
- halyconWays 3mo ago>Click >Read top link >It's some garbage about white supremacy >Read second link >It's a Hacker News story about Linux >Same for the next three links >Read sixth link >More garbage about white supremacy and how Trump bad >Close site and don't bother to remember its name This isn't normal and this isn't how the Internet used to be
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- DoctorOW 3mo agoThis is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. I've been feeling like HN feels more and more repetitive.
- sph 3mo ago> independent blogs > looks inside > american politics and culture war I guess my choice is Hacker News with its AI obsession, or just abandoning the internet. There is no escaping the shit that has infected the rest of social media
- alfirous 3mo agoNow one thing is missing for me is Hacker News for design. Something like Designer News which sadly is gone. The close I found is Sidebar[1] but do not have comments section for discussion. 1. https://sidebar.io https://sidebar.io
- gumboshoes 3mo agoWaiting for the inflection point that all social sites go through: When a social site's top content stops being about itself, then it is probably going to be successful. A second corollary: When a social site's top content stops being about the internet, then it is probably going to be even more successful.