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Re: TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story

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I wish there was a service that shows HN pages with short previews of the linked stories included so that you had more info to decide whether to click the link, or go straight to the comments, or skip the story altogether.

The preview should ideally be a summary for it to be useful. Many articles nowadays seem to stretch the topic a lot more than is necessary, with the paragraphs at the beginning being a lot of fluff.

Re: TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story

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What I'd like to see is, instead of a wide range of topics displayed on the same page, unsorted and un-categorized, a tool that would only display the topics I'm interested in. For instance I don't want to read about politics on HN, only computer science, so an app that would auto-tag/filter links depending on the source/content would be welcome. To me that's the biggest flaw of HN, having to go through pages of link to only get what I'm interested in is painful.

Re: TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story

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post #7

I wish there was a service that shows HN pages with short previews of the linked stories included so that you had more info to decide whether to click the link, or go straight to the comments, or skip the story altogether.

There’s a bot on Reddit that automatically posts summaries of long articles (/u/autotldr). Looks like it uses the smmry.com API, and it works quite well. Something similar for HN would be interesting.

Re: TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story

#15

What I'd like to see is, instead of a wide range of topics displayed on the same page, unsorted and un-categorized, a tool that would only display the topics I'm interested in. For instance I don't want to read about politics on HN, only computer science, so an app that would auto-tag/filter links depending on the source/content would be welcome. To me that's the biggest flaw of HN, having to go through pages of link…

Alternatively it could cross-reference posts with Reddit and see what subreddit they’re posted in and filter based on that.

Re: TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story

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post #7

I wish there was a service that shows HN pages with short previews of the linked stories included so that you had more info to decide whether to click the link, or go straight to the comments, or skip the story altogether.

This may suit your needs http://hn.premii.com/

Re: TopHN – When you have time for only one Hacker News story

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I tend to use http://hckrnews.com/ and only display the top 10 stories.

What I particularly like is the day-split, the high density of information, and the color coding: orange means "Still on the homepage" and grey means "Already visited" (which applies to both the story and the comments).

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