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Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

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Post by smork »

I subscribed to the RSS feed but somehow the content in google reader is truncated to this:

"The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are: "

Would be nice to have the full post in there with the 10 links :)

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#4

Post by niyazpk »

cperciva, I really appreciate the effort you put into this.

One thing I find a bit depressing is that even though this scheme hugely reduces the time one spends on HN by filtering the articles according to votes, the top voted articles are not the ones that I would want to read. I usually come here for that "hacker" hacker news (hackerhackernews.com used to be something like this, but now the domain name has expired it seems). Anyway I am sure there will be people who find your service really useful.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

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Post by cperciva »

smork wrote: post #3

I subscribed to the RSS feed but somehow the content in google reader is truncated to this: "The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are: " Would be nice to have the full post in there with the 10 links :)

My blog code defaults to only putting one paragraph into the RSS feed -- for most of my blog posts this works well. I've adjusted my script so that future dailys will include the list of links in the RSS feed.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

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Post by cperciva »

niyazpk wrote: post #4

cperciva, I really appreciate the effort you put into this. One thing I find a bit depressing is that even though this scheme hugely reduces the time one spends on HN by filtering the articles according to votes, the top voted articles are not the ones that I would want to read. I usually come here for that "hacker" hacker news (hackerhackernews.com used to be something like this, but now the domain name has expired…

It's not perfect, certainly -- over the past 3 days I've still only read about half of the top-ten links. This is about avoiding the situation where an interesting highly-voted article gets drowned out by all the noise rather than an attempt to find "good" articles which don't get lots of votes.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#7

Post by smork »

cperciva wrote: post #5
smork wrote: post #3

I subscribed to the RSS feed but somehow the content in google reader is truncated to this: "The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 13, 2010 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are: " Would be nice to have the full post in there with the 10 links :)

My blog code defaults to only putting one paragraph into the RSS feed -- for most of my blog posts this works well. I've adjusted my script so that future dailys will include the list of links in the RSS feed.

Cheers, thanks for the quick fix :)

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#8

Post by davidw »

niyazpk wrote: post #4

cperciva, I really appreciate the effort you put into this. One thing I find a bit depressing is that even though this scheme hugely reduces the time one spends on HN by filtering the articles according to votes, the top voted articles are not the ones that I would want to read. I usually come here for that "hacker" hacker news (hackerhackernews.com used to be something like this, but now the domain name has expired…

Yeah, I tend to find the really interesting stories are not the top of the page ones. Love in the age of the pickup artist? Sorry, couldn't care less.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

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Post by cperciva »

davidw wrote: post #8
niyazpk wrote: post #4

cperciva, I really appreciate the effort you put into this. One thing I find a bit depressing is that even though this scheme hugely reduces the time one spends on HN by filtering the articles according to votes, the top voted articles are not the ones that I would want to read. I usually come here for that "hacker" hacker news (hackerhackernews.com used to be something like this, but now the domain name has expired…

Yeah, I tend to find the really interesting stories are not the top of the page ones. Love in the age of the pickup artist? Sorry, couldn't care less.

Remember that being at the top of the front page at some point during the day does not necessarily mean that an article is in the top 10 links for the day.

I think looking at scores -- without looking at how long it took for those scores to be reached -- probably weights in favour of more "interesting" stories and against link-bait stories, simply because the link-bait tends to accumulate most of its votes very quickly.

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