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The thing I'm always missing on Reddit and HN is a sliding scale to tweak the time dropoff factor. For example I've been busy and check Reddit for the first time in four days. Ideally I'd see the most important stuff of the past 4 days, but the algorithm for "best" is not configurable and I roughly see what's hot today.

Another example is a thoroughly boring lesson where you just keep hitting refresh and all the links are purple already. Here I'd slide the scale to "what's new in the past 5-30 minutes?"

On reddit you can go for top posts of the day/week/month/year/alltime already and HN can do the same via the search feature. What I can't select is a granularity of less than a week and either longer or shorter than a day, and this website can't do that either, so for me at least this site has no use.

I'm not saying you (OP) should build this. It's more of a shout out to the community in general, perhaps someone has tips (e.g. an app that can do this) or someone agrees and happens to know a reddit admin and tells them... just my thoughts. That's why I'm posting this, not to make you change this site ;)

By the way, it might just be me, but the background... is more of a foreground, at least when I try to look at the website it jumps out immediately.

That's something that Digg did well. You could click "top today/24 hours/week/x days" and you would see the submissions with most diggs in 24 hours/week/days/etc.

But why not make it a sliding scale, where you can pick the past 17.3 minutes if you wish to do so?

Might be because it requires more complex database querying and/or is less cacheable.

Still... I'm unhappy with the current selection of offerings.

Reddit lets you see the top posts from the past: hour, day, week, month, year, all time.

Going from one month to a whole year is a huge jump! And personally I almost never look at top posts from the past hour.

I would love to see top posts from the past 3-months and 6-months.

Intuitively it seems like you could approximate by weighting/combining 15min and 30min caches. But also seems like a very esoteric problem!

You could potentially do this with a client side extension. RES lets you filter posts that have certain keywords or other criteria. You could perhaps add a bit of code to make it filter posts that are older than x hours/days, and then browse /top like normal, but see only new posts.

I'm more concerned about mixing posts from different subreddits. When I browse my reddit.com/top feed (sorted by past week), I see only posts from the largest subreddits I subscribe to, mainly default subreddits. I see zero posts from the smaller subreddit's I subscribe to. This is especially bad because I find the smaller subreddit's the most interesting!

Don't they still have the "multi reddits"? Just make a group for the smaller ones. Or a simple bookmark like reddit.com/r/smallsub1+smallsub2+smallsub3 etc. A bit work upfront but if you are annoyed it may very well be worth the time.

It might help a bit. But really the problem is I want to see the top 10 posts from the last week that I missed. Even grouping smaller subreddits together, /top still sorts them by the size of the subreddit and is mostly useless.

I added the RSS feed for popular HN posts from http://hnapp.com to my RSS reader.

That way the RSS reader gives me the popular posts since last time.

And because I like HN for its discussion most of all, I coded a small WebExtension to have a button to the discussion of the current page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-comments/

I definitely want this, but their goal is to have you visit their sites daily. I highly doubt they have an incentive to build this.

About the background: I want the site to have a feeling of holiday ><!

GitHub part is so flawed... because FreeCodeCamp inflate their popularity by requiring during onboarding for the user to star their repository yet keeping them at the top. It's like if I told everyone to vote up my Hacker News posts... and gave them the link to do it and GitHub has no remedy for that inflation.

This is why we recently retired FreeCodeCamp from Changelog Nightly[^1]. It was in the Top Starred list each and every night for months on end. Impressive, but not very interesting.

[1]: https://changelog.com/recent-improvements-to-changelog-night...

Good job. Btw, there is a similar project here: http://reader.one/ (lol, just got a downvote)

Well, that Reader One (One Reader?) only seems to show the current top N posts of a couple of popular sites (Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, Slashdot, Designer News, Lifehacker, ...). Is there a (hidden) feature to show the top posts on a daily, weekly or monthly level?

I don't think so. It's not my project either. It was featured months ago on product hunt and since then I didn't notice any update on the app.

Awesome! You should really create a daily/weekly/monthly newsletter and rss feeds, I think it would be really valuable.

How did you compile the top medium posts? Do they have an API?

For Medium, I just fetch this link( medium.com/top-stories) and get top 10 links every day

+1 for RSS feeds. I would definitely subscribe to weekly feeds for HN and Medium at the least.

i have not found anything more powerful than panda for this kind of thing, its the perfect mix of customization and preconfiguration.

http://usepanda.com/app/

I got here through Panda.

This app/plugin is well done.

It's only for Hacker News, but Colin Parcival daily posts the top 10 HN posts on http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/. It lacks your feature to show the top posts on a weekly or monthly level (and more sources), which are cool features. (I'm not a big fan of the UI style thought.)

Then there's also "hckr news", https://hckrnews.com/, which shows the top 10 or top 20 per day, or the top 50% of every six hours. But also that one is just for Hacker News.

Great concept.

But ditch the hideous background. It may be just me, in which case ignore this, but I would expect more people to be put off by it.

I don't like having blocks of headlines all over the screen. It kind of reminds me of a web portal from the 90s. I think something like http://reader.one/ (mentioned by another user on this page) provides a more readable interface.

For people who are interested in the raw JSON data and how I get them. The JSON files and the'crawler' is also opensourced on github: https://github.com/timqian/my-headline-crawler

Great service! Good work but What is that backgound? HUrts my eyes in kind of funny way

Curious if this was built to "scratch your own itch."

Yes, This site is built for quickly view headlines in the programmer world when I don't have time browse site by site

Solid. I have built something similar for myself, I was wondering about feeding a subset to Pocket

You know what would be cool, if you can have an email list going and send these out on the daily basis to your users.

Really like the site. But you need to work on html entity decoding :)

Sadly it doesn't seem to go back further than April 2016 :(

The author could seed it back with a HN dump like https://github.com/alixaxel/dump.HN

Whoa. Thanks for showing me v2ex. Cool!

Sounds like a good way to read average articles and reinforce a filter bubble, click bait titles, and bike-shedding.

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