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HNdigest: The top Hacker News stories in your inbox, on your own terms
- hgezim 13y agoHi everyone, OP here. This is the story of HNdigest. You see, I've gotten so much good content from Hacker News. Some days, I'd have to keep up with the top stories and happen on a great JavaScript library, or a really educational blog post. Then I started to think, what was I missing on those days where I was too busy to check what's making top news? I really started to worry about missing all the good content. So, I set out to create HNdigest for myself so I could sleep better at night. Now, what I'm planning on adding soon _may_ excite some of you. I'm planning to add the ability for you to choose the topics that you want to subscribe to. So, if you never cared about politics too much, you won't be bothered with it....more Python links coming your way, good sir (if you're into that type of stuff). Anyway, it's been and I'd love to hear what you think about it.
- ColinWright 13y agoHow does it compare with HN Summaries and the HN newsletter? Have you investigated the other attempts to do something similar in the past? What exactly do you do that's different?
- hgezim 13y agoGreat question! Well, two things: 1.) You get to refine exactly when you want the emails to be sent to you and how many of them you want. 2.) You'll be able to subscribe to selected topics (sooon).
- simias 13y agoI would be definitely interested in filtering HN stories, but how are you going to implement that on your side? How will the tags be attributed?
- emp_ 13y agoIf I may suggest something, add an exclusion filter too. Removing things like NSA, Hiring might be extremely useful.
- hgezim 13y agoThe "We're hiring" posts are excluded by default. And yeah, a exclude filter in general would be pretty useful. Thanks for the tip!
- alok-g 13y agoMy humble opinion: When I cannot keep pace with HN, I cannot keep pace with it through email also. I do not prefer to have a backlog of things to read (which is one of the characters of my inbox) since I cannot possibly read everything of interest to me. I find it better to search HN at times of need than maintain a heavy cache of it in my mind to avoid what would be like a premature optimization.
- hgezim 13y agoYou've got a point. I did find that 30 emails per day was a bit too much for me. That's why having the ability to pick off the top 10 is great. Thanks for your feedback!
- nickstinemates 13y agoSounds a lot like HNWatcher (http://hnwatcher.com http://hnwatcher.com)
- workhere-io 13y agoCool! Would it be possible to get e.g. 50 or even more stories per day?
- hgezim 13y agoHaha, are you sure you want that?! Yeah, it's definitely possible. To launch, I was trying to keep the number of combination to a minimum.
- workhere-io 13y agoare you sure you want that?! Yes, because sometimes it's the lower-ranked articles that are interesting. Also: Is Ask HN included? It would be nice to see those as well.
- hgezim 13y agoYes, Ask HN, Show HN, are also included. The only thing that's not are job postings.
- coherentpony 13y agoThis is cool. I can finally get rid of all the posts about politics.
- oskarth 13y agoShameless plug. I made a similar service this weekend during Clojure Cup: http://hs.clojurecup.com/ http://hs.clojurecup.com/ It's quite rough around the edges, but the idea is that you follow individuals rather than topics. Any feedback is appreciated (but I won't be able to incorporate it until the competition freeze is over, in a couple of days).
- jemeshsu 13y agoAnother shameless plug: http://www.tophnnews.com http://www.tophnnews.com Collects posts that reaches top 3. RSS is at http://www.tophnnews.com/rss http://www.tophnnews.com/rss
- cool-RR 13y agoWhat I want is to have each story that reaches 500 points to be emailed to me instantly, without waiting to be grouped in a digest.
- jacquesm 13y agohttp://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload/ http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...
- hgezim 13y agoTo the mod that changed the title: Is Get top Hacker News posts in your inbox more informative than the original HNdigest: The top Hacker News stories in your inbox, on your own terms? I feel like the new title doesn't reflect that HNdigest gives you control over the emails you receive and it's not just a dump. I'm not necessarily disagreeing, I'm kind of wondering your take.
- wikwocket 13y agoTitles are often changed to the page title or H1 title of the linked page. The best way to get the HN title you want is to post a blog entry with that title, and then link to that.
- OwGrk 13y agoWell, this is very interesting. It's a way to filter unwanted posts.
- pella 13y agoalternative : http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ example Issue #158 : http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=faa8eb4ef3a111cef92c4f3d4&id=2f851a4a19 http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=faa8eb4ef3a111cef92c4f3d...
- hnriot 13y agoWhy would I want this in my inbox, what's wrong with a web app like it already is?
- hgezim 13y agoWell, for starters, if you're not constantly checking what's making front page, you could miss great content. Also, if you got to the link, you'll find that I'm planning on adding filter where you could filter out specific types of posts.
- jacquesm 13y agohttp://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
- mholt 13y agoWhat is the privacy policy?
- hgezim 13y agoLet's start with, I won't sell your email or share it with other people without your permission?! What else would you be concerned about?
- mholt 13y agoSounds good to me. It doesn't say it anywhere on the site, so I was just asking. Also, it would be nice to be assured that I'll get only emails that I'm signing up for. Just an idea for your site to put some people at ease. I'm signing up though.
- sbarre 13y agoI use an IFFT action to get this listing (via RSS) in my inbox every day: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
- benzittlau 13y agoI have to say the number of 'shameless' plugs on this thread is really quite shameful. It really reinforces the reason that I don't read HN much anymore; it's become a self-promotion pit instead of a venue for actual discussion.
- killerpopiller 13y agoI for one, find those alternatives helpful and the hint honorable. What are you reading instead?
- EStudley 13y agoWhy isn't "1" an option for amount of top links? I would like to receive the best story on Hacker News on a given day.
- hgezim 13y agoHmmm... I didn't think of that. I was trying to keep number of combinations low.
- bearwithclaws 13y agoNice work! Another shameless plug: if you need a curated, hand-picked, carefully designed, paper version of Hacker News (that delivered to your doorstep), there's always the good ol' Hacker Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com http://hackermonthly.com). No internet connection required :)
- sharkweek 13y agoHey Cheng! Just wanted to say we are subscribed here at the office and it's a great way to catch up with HN on bus commutes -- the quality of curated articles as well as the "packaging" is top notch; keep up the great work
- coolswan 13y agoawesome! one suggestion: anyway to make this a RSS feed as well?
- abimaelmartell 13y agoi can smell a django app :P