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Re: Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?

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Post by ljoshua »

r3bl wrote: post #36
ljoshua wrote: post #28

Side question: does anyone know of a browser extension or anything that would hide/gray out HN headlines that I've already seen on previous visits so I know only what stories are actually new on the front page? Would make scanning quicker.

Accessing HN with Firefox (if your web history is turned on) does exactly that[1]. No extension is necessary. The same is true for every other browser since the CSS file it clearly says: a:link { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } a:visited { color:#828282; text-decoration:none; } [1] http://i.imgur.com/CqKW1yK.png

Sorry, didn't mean just visited links. I want unvisited (but seen) links to be treated differently.

Example: I visit once, scan 30 links, click 2, and leave. Come back 2 hours later, there are 5 new links, 5 have dropped off, and my attention is drawn to just the five new links, regardless of whether I visited the other 25 or not.

Re: Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?

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Post by ck2 »

Klathmon wrote: post #31
charlieegan3 wrote: post #23

https://lobste.rs/ _sometimes_ gets things before HN. I also follow Product Hunt but I don't find either are as consistently high in quality has HN. Last year I made http://serializer.io/ that aggregates items linearly from all 3 (and some others) on a single page.

id love to try out lobste.rs but i cant seem to get an invite, and commenting is one of the biggest parts of these kinds of sites to me.

HN thread on lobste.rs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452384

Invites are supposedly via irc chat https://lobste.rs/chat

Re: Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?

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Post by yodon »

spoiledtechie wrote: post #30

Drudgereport.com - its the best news aggregator on the web about politics hands down and I am fascinated by politics.

Drudge is a great aggregator but my goodness it has strong political biases. I used to pair Salon.com visits with drudge to get contrasting spins, but a year or two ago Salon went all link-baity fluff. For a while qz.com was amazing until they re-designed their home page and removed 50 IQ points from the content (ditto for fivethirtyeight.com). At this point my news sources are mainly reduced to the great-but-comically-biased drudge and the once-great-now-dumbed-down-but-still-analytically-unbiased fivethirtyeight.com

If anyone knows of a good US-moderate or left of US-center news aggregator that acts like its readers are intelligent, I'm all ears (I also like right of US-center news but I get plenty of that from drudge)

Re: Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?

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Post by BenoitP »

http://www.datatau.com/

http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/automaton

http://highscalability.com/

A selection of subreddits, among which: r/apachespark/, r/java/, r/programming/, r/InternetIsBeautiful/, r/dataisbeautiful/, r/MachineLearning/

I'd like to follow a bunch of people on twitter, on the subjects they are experts in; but find the signal to noise ratio is not high enough.

Also, I stalk a few people on various forums because I really like their way of thinking or expertise. If you say something clever, I'm going to go through your post history.

On top of that, some youtube channels, and about 400 blogs of individuals. Best ones: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks, http://colah.github.io/, https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/blog/, http://acko.net/, http://karpathy.github.io/.

Re: Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?

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Post by bazzargh »

ljoshua wrote: post #28

Side question: does anyone know of a browser extension or anything that would hide/gray out HN headlines that I've already seen on previous visits so I know only what stories are actually new on the front page? Would make scanning quicker.

I assume you mean seen but not visited, since as the other reply says, the browser tracks :visited for you.

I have a more aggressive greasemonkey script that hides lots of non-technical links on HN

    var links = document.links;

    var boring = [ "adage.com", "arstechnica", "bbc", "discovermagazine", "bloomberg", 
               "bloombergview", "buzzfeed", "businessinsider", 
              "californiasunday","cnn","csmonitor","dailymail",
              "digg", "economist","esquire", "fastcompany",
              "forbes", "ft.com", "fortune", "fusion", "geekwire",
              "gizmodo", "harvard.edu", "huffingtonpost", "inc.com",
              "longreads", "medium", "mondaynote",
              "nature", "nautil.us", "newscientist", "newstatesman",
              "newyorker", "npr.org", "nybooks", "nymag", "nytimes", "pando",
              "psychologytoday", "qz.com", "reddit", "reuters", "sciencedaily",
              "scientificamerican", "slate", "techcrunch", "telegraph",
              "theatlantic", "theguardian", "thenation","theparisreview",
              "theverge", "theregister", "time", "usatoday", "vancouversun",
              "vice", "vimeo",
              "vogue", "washingtonpost", "wired", "wsj", "yahoo",
              "youtube", "zdnet" ];
     matcher = new RegExp("\\b("+(boring.join("|").replace(/\./g,"\\."))+")\\b");
     for (i=0; i
Just to be clear, I read a lot of those sites - I'm just not interested in seeing them on HN, where I'm looking for technical news.

Anyway, you could adapt this by parsing the age field and making judgements based on how old the article is and your time of day (ie you'll have seen a 6 hour old article at the end of the day, but at the start of the day, it first appeared overnight)

Re: Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?

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Post by charlieegan3 »

ck2 wrote: post #38
charlieegan3 wrote: post #23

https://lobste.rs/ _sometimes_ gets things before HN. I also follow Product Hunt but I don't find either are as consistently high in quality has HN. Last year I made http://serializer.io/ that aggregates items linearly from all 3 (and some others) on a single page.

Nice job on serializer - there are now newsworthy articles on the front page that are missing from HN front page. ps. I think you should set a max-width on the content area, I see you made it flexible probably for mobile but on larger displays the unlimited width makes your eyes move too much (meanwhile I'll fix it with stylish) pps. free https maybe?

Thanks! I've thought about the content area before, I should do it really.

About the missing items. Only the top 25 are taken, and the top 5 from show HN. Items are refreshed every 10 mins.

Re: Ask HN: What else do you read as regularly as Hacker News?

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Post by HenryTheHorse »

spoiledtechie wrote: post #30

Drudgereport.com - its the best news aggregator on the web about politics hands down and I am fascinated by politics.

Drudge's headlines are comically sensationalistic, biased and so deliberately taken out of a story's context that it's pure genius.

And that's a terrible way to get one's news.

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