Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Hacker News Daily (announcement)

daemonology.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 82 posts

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#71

Post by brown9-2 »

cperciva wrote: post #58
brown9-2 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps "Top 10 most-commented posts" would be interesting as well?

That's a lot harder to do -- I can get away with scraping the front page right now because highly voted posts are likely to be on the front page for most of their vote-getting lifetime, but that argument probably doesn't hold about highly commented posts.

Hm, this is true. Perhaps you could scrape /newcomments and keep track of which stories are getting new comments?

This would hinge on the frequency of all comments to the site and having your scraping interval be less than the difference of the most recent comment and last comment displayed on /newcomments.

I think it'd just be really great to have another view into "Most active discussions".

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#72

Post by wingo »

edanm wrote: post #37
alexkay wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I second this! I would gladly pay 5-10 bucks a month for a daily digest of top hacking-related articles (no business, no politics and no Apple rumours/speculations). HN used to be 80% programming and 20% business-related, now it's the opposite.

I have to say that's surprising. I'm relatively new here, but I thought most people would get here through Paul Graham/YCombinator, which has more to do with business than programming.

Paul Graham also used to be 80% programming and 20% business.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#73

Post by [deleted] »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #43
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…

That's exactly why I created http://www.hackerblogs.com if you check HN frontpage right now, there are zero posts by hackers, all come from PR blogs like techcrunch, readwriteweb, thenextweb, etc. I highly recommend you giving it a try, it is still growing and I hope someday it may become the new source of real hacker news. * I dare you to find an article like "Flipping arrows in coBurger King" on the news sites righ…

[deleted]

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#74

Post by bsnss-mn-cdr »

heffay wrote: post #49
roadnottaken wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

then, before you know it, you're Slashdot!

or worse, reddit/digg

It would be horrible for the guys at YC to have created a $200m+ business, right? http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/22/google-in-final-negotiation...

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#76

Post by duck »

hackermom wrote: post #14

Part of the problem is how Hacker News seemingly have turned into something more akin of News. The hacker tidbits are far and few between, and the overall amount of new submissions have skyrocketed.

I agree. I wonder how it would work if it cost you X karma points for every submission? Maybe X varies based on keywords in the title too.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#77

Post by andrewtj »

jrockway wrote: post #41
andrewtj wrote: post #17

I'd like to PayPal you $5 toward obtaining daily.hn ($62 + whatever the tax is on gandi.net) — anyone else?

My browser has a working bookmarks implementation, so I don't care what the domain name is.

My bad, I get excessively terse when I'm tired. I wasn't suggesting it out of utility but out of appreciation — nothing says thank you quite like a superfluous vanity domain.

EDIT: Just noticed my other post has garnered at least one down-vote so although I'm pretty sure this idea doesn't have legs, on the off-chance you dear reader are one of ~13 other folks who'd like to see this happen, drop me an email to express your interest.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#78

Post by duck »

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…

I started http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ last week. The selected articles I pick are based on a combination votes, comments, and items that I found valuable. I received similar feedback from a couple HN members and thought of splitting up the newsletter based on the article "types". I will be trying that out for the next edition. I think some weeks it will work better than other since the quantity/quality vary a good bit week to week.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#79

Post by alexkay »

bradendouglass wrote: post #46
alexkay wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I second this! I would gladly pay 5-10 bucks a month for a daily digest of top hacking-related articles (no business, no politics and no Apple rumours/speculations). HN used to be 80% programming and 20% business-related, now it's the opposite.

If you are looking for something that is 100% programming then http://news.usethesource.com/news is a good choice. It is built on the same platform as HN Disclaimer - I have no affiliation with the amazing peeps at usethesource

Thanks! That's more or less what I was looking for.

Re: Hacker News Daily (announcement)

#80

Post by xsmasher »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #53
giantfuzzypanda wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice site, just added my blog. Only problem I see is that if it does keep growing and becomes popular, then people could add feeds of irrelevant blogs, and like most social news sites it would turn into a digg/reddit.

I am the curator, I check it every ten minutes (I am that addict) and believe me, I hate fud, payperpost and propaganda to death. If I see one blog incurring in a fault, they're banned for life.

I tried to register http://deadpanic.com/blog/ , but apparently didn't make the cut. Any suggestions for improvement, or insight into the criteria you use?
Post reply on HN