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Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#11

Post by runeks »

I wish there were a way to display news from a custom time interval, as opposed to always getting news from a fixed interval of time (I think there are three different settings as of now).

If I haven’t visited HN for, say, 6 days, I find it’d be really helpful to be able to display all news from this time period, based on number of upvotes in descending order.

In other words: I’d appreciate complete control over the algorithm that decides which news to display: time interval, minimum upvotes, minimum comment count, upvotes-per-hour, etc.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#15

Post by untangle »

runeks wrote: post #11

I wish there were a way to display news from a custom time interval, as opposed to always getting news from a fixed interval of time (I think there are three different settings as of now). If I haven’t visited HN for, say, 6 days, I find it’d be really helpful to be able to display all news from this time period, based on number of upvotes in descending order. In other words: I’d appreciate complete control over the…

Try http://searchhn.com/

This comes close to your specs.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#16

Post by Zircom »

smnscu wrote: post #5

I've used hn.premii.com for years and couldn't be happier. I also like the name, it means 'prizes' in Romanian.

Seconded! Been using it forever, if he'd implement replying and voting I'd have no reason to ever use the vanilla site.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#17

Post by cyberferret »

Shameless plug: I use my own home written app http://tophn.info to keep an eye on the movement of the top news articles during the day, in real time and jump straight to the comments.

I also wrote about how I built it using Vue.js and RethinkDB... https://hackernoon.com/tophn-a-fun-side-project-built-with-v...

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#18

Post by microcolonel »

yorwba wrote: post #8
microcolonel wrote: post #2

I prefer the version of Hacker News from four months ago to the current version, and all of the viewers listed here, even on mobile. I wouldn't think my opinion would be niche.

What changed four months ago? I didn't notice any change.

Weird stuff like collapsing downvoted comments (and their replies) by default. I even browse with showdead on, so I don't want to have to manually expand comment trees just because slightly more people disagree than agree with the point being made.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

#19

Post by TeMPOraL »

KGIII wrote: post #7
acidshards wrote: post #3

You've been reading Hacker News wrong your whole life.

They don't want you to know the secret to reading HN! On a more serious note, I'm pretty happy with seeing it right here on this very domain. Hell, I haven't even changed the orange header. The layout and navigation are simple but intuitive. The site is very light and loads quickly. I don't like how voting will make me jump around the page, but I can live with that. No site is perfect for everyone, after all. Yeah, I…

> voting will make me jump around the page

What do you mean by that? Voting is handled by AJAX requests, so it shouldn't jump around.

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