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Ask HN: What tools/add-ons/sites do you use to get most out of Hacker News?

• xngzng 12y ago
  I use http://www.tophackernews.net http://www.tophackernews.net by a friend, which captures only news that hit front page top 3. Mainly follow @TopHackerNewsHQ to read on Twitter.
• davybrion 12y ago
  I love the weekly-newsletter format, so i very much appreciate Kale Davis' hacker newsletter: http://www.hackernewsletter.com http://www.hackernewsletter.com Other than that i use MiniHack on iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/be/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id631108846?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/be/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6...)... I rarely use the website
• dennybritz 12y ago
  I usually only check "Ask HN" and read the top stories posted by Hacker News on Twitter.
• snikeris 12y ago
  I almost exclusively read from: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
• Concours 12y ago
  I use HN RSS feed with https://www.feedsapi.org/ https://www.feedsapi.org/ to get all the stories in full length forwarded to my email inbox and read them in full length in theoldreader reader. I now and then use http://www.ihackernews.com http://www.ihackernews.com on the go (on my smartphone).
• motyar 12y ago
  FireFox
• jyu 12y ago
  I use RSS for nearly everything. RSS allows you to avoid the fear of missing great stories or content due to timing, groupthink flagging, etc. You can also follow individual user comments with RSS with some quick mods. An added bonus is that RSS preserves [dead] stories. Once a story is [dead], it won't show up in hn.algolia.com search results, even though it still shows up on HN.
  • hashtag 12y ago
    You can also follow individual user comments with RSS with some quick mods Can you elaborate on how the mod works?
    • jyu 12y ago
      I fed the custom hn.algolia.com search to something that made it into an RSS feed. So if I wanted to get an RSS feed of all of pg's comments, you could use this as the source link: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/author%3APG http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/author%... Then I made a custom yahoo pipe to create an RSS feed, taking a username as a parameter: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b5d191396ff8e04acddcaedebc2d176d&_render=rss&username=pg http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b5d191396ff8e04acd...
      • rahimnathwani 12y ago
        I had the same need, but didn't want to use Yahoo! pipes, so I submitted a small patch: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/27 https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/27
        • walterbell 12y ago
          Taking that one step further, you can convert RSS to NNTP via http://gwene.org/ http://gwene.org/
          • rahimnathwani 12y ago
• percept 12y ago
  I'm constantly doing one of the following: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+something https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+someth... https://www.google.com/?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+something https://www.google.com/?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+somethin... [Aside: I really like the DDG mission, but am finding myself more frequently (and unfortunately) returning to Google for technical searches, and switched back to it as my default. I'm finding more relevant results at the top of Google's SERPs. Both DDG and Google diminished IMO when they tried to become "smarter."]
  • dolzenko 12y ago
    How that compares to https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ ?
• dolzenko 12y ago
  Old thread with suggestions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474078. Personally I feel the strong desire to have collapsible comment threads, but still haven't invested any time into finding proper solution.
  • egor83 12y ago
    I use 'hckr news' extension for Chrome which has collapsible threads (and also highlights new comments): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodleonmmfkdhfofamacceeikgecp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...
• joshschreuder 12y ago
  Just HN Enhancement Suite, which does a whole heap of things like collapsible comments, an (arguably) nicer site design / layout, as well as a bunch more. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhancement-s/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
• mromanuk 12y ago
  Minihack is the best for iPad
• gauravgupta 12y ago
  I use HackerNode to read HN on my iPhone.
• codecondo 12y ago
  http://codecondo.com/hacker-news-web-apps/ http://codecondo.com/hacker-news-web-apps/