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

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post #16

There is http://n-gate.com/ if one wants a week's worth top stories with a bit of commentary.

Their security check captcha doesn’t load for me.

If you visit from HN, the site displays a webshit parody.

Otherwise it's text only and loads very fast.

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

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post #16

There is http://n-gate.com/ if one wants a week's worth top stories with a bit of commentary.

Their security check captcha doesn’t load for me.

The comment explaining why is dead so I'm pasting it here:

"If you visit from HN, the site displays a webshit parody. Otherwise it's text only and loads very fast."

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

#23

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…

I have a simple userscript that filters by the domain and by article title - blacklisting articles.

You can get more technical hacker new by filtering out all news websites. It's quite effective.

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

#24

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…

You just described subreddits.

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

#25
post #8

Don't forget https://news.ycombinator.com/best

What’s the difference between that and the front page? Is it like the difference between the “top” and “best” algorithms that Reddit use? How do these algorithms differ specifically on HN?

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

#26

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…

So then why are you on HN instead of Reddit?

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

#27
post #8

Don't forget https://news.ycombinator.com/best

What’s the difference between that and the front page? Is it like the difference between the “top” and “best” algorithms that Reddit use? How do these algorithms differ specifically on HN?

A cursory observation suggests "Top" prioritises the last 24 hours so has low rated but new items. "Best" seems to look at what's been popular in the last three days.

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

#28

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…

check out https://lobste.rs it is usually just computer science.
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