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Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by j_s »

daredevil_kohai wrote: post #78

I use the telegram channel of hacker news' top posts of the day with more than 100+ scores ( https://telegram.me/hacker_news_feed )and also the hooks bot (@hooks_bot) in telegram which shows posts with 200+ score..

As mentioned in the article, there is also a 100+ score Twitter account: https://twitter.com/newsyc100 which has sibling accounts for other score limits.

Not related but still worth a mention due to apparently considering coming out of retirement after a year's hiatus: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by j_s »

Are there any audio summaries of HN? At this point I'd even appreciate pointers to listenable podcasts which primarily consist of discussion/opinions on recent HN stories, but I'd really appreciate a "just the facts, m'am" summary.

Preliminary research:

Some sort of experimental text-to-speech of the article titles: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnAsMIl3kF9LAYJuKxH8Ebw (last updated: June 2017)

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by balladeer »

jorvi wrote: post #96
j_s wrote: post #91

These things come and go, the annoying part is verifying they are still maintained. I recently collected this list along with the best discussion, typically from their launch: http://hackernewsgrid.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078605 (2017) https://www.taggernews.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337275 (2017) https://vue-hn.now.sh & https://hnews.xyz | https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hnews.x…

I've tried multiple clients on iOS and MiniHack[1] is by far the best one I've tried and is well-maintained. Only issue with it is that dark mode is triggered by light intensity and not time, so if you're on the threshold value the color theme will constantly flip-flop. [1] https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/minihack-hacker-news-client/...

And I have tried many apps but I have always felt better using the website both on desktop and mobile. This way I also check it less.

I try to keep bare minimum of essential apps on my phone. Rest just websites whenever I have to use it.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by blueish »

j_s wrote: post #91

These things come and go, the annoying part is verifying they are still maintained. I recently collected this list along with the best discussion, typically from their launch: http://hackernewsgrid.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078605 (2017) https://www.taggernews.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337275 (2017) https://vue-hn.now.sh & https://hnews.xyz | https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hnews.x…

I've been using

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic
For my day to day browsing. It has a pretty fully fledged feature set, including saving stories for later, and some neat aggregates (top last 24 hours is labelled "catch up" or something similar).

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by j_s »

Santosh83 wrote: post #60

Does anyone know of a hacker news viewer that can sort an article's comments chronologically or on another criteria? My only gripe with the default site is that there is no way to quickly locate the most recent comments on an article.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

> Show and highlight new comments since you last view a thread

discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=enhancement%20suite (none really big)

elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310679

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by feliciaan »

j_s wrote: post #91

These things come and go, the annoying part is verifying they are still maintained. I recently collected this list along with the best discussion, typically from their launch: http://hackernewsgrid.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078605 (2017) https://www.taggernews.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337275 (2017) https://vue-hn.now.sh & https://hnews.xyz | https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hnews.x…

I use the hndigest morning newsletter, with Some top stories of the day. https://hndigest.com/

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by krapp »

galfarragem wrote: post #84

HN with thumbnails: https://hnews.xyz/ This is specially useful on phones.

That's nice, but the thumbnails appear to be of the site layouts, rather than thumbnail metadata, which would seem to make them less than useful since it's not contextually relevant. Most of what's visible is the header of the page (which is repeated in the link) and some thumbnails are even blank.

That said, having tried to make a HN clone that did use metadata for thumbnails, even that seemed not to add value in most cases. Turning a URL into a useful thumbnail seems to be kind of a hard problem.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by acobster »

maze-le wrote: post #30

They didn't even mention haxor-news. This is basically a command-line interface with a lot of features. Maybe there is justifieble objection to the "read Hacker News without the eyestrain"-bit in this case. [0]: https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news

I'm surprised as well! Although I prefer hn-cli, a much simpler way to browse the headlines and jump directly to the articles you want to read.

https://github.com/rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli

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