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First, let me say that I really like the idea of this site. You already have the tools built to scrape HN every 5 min so why not expand on this idea. It would be very interesting to create something that scrapes HN and then provides the N most popular articles (by vote) for the day where N is defined in the URL. It would also be interesting to scrape the "New" section and then have a special section that has more stringent than the HN front page. A sort of "HN Plus" (forgive my reference to Hulu). Personally I like that HN trickles (sometimes torrentially) in through the day. I will admit that sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the content but it is always a good break from whatever I'm doing. Maybe that should be an "Ask PG" of my own but the idea has been rolling around in my head for some time to do something similar. I'm glad you're a lot less lazy than me and doing something about it. Is there any way you would be willing to put the source up on GitHub?

provides the N most popular articles (by vote) for the day where N is defined in the URL

Aside from the "don't include links which were on a previous Daily Hacker News", this is exactly what I do. The top-10 list for YYYY-MM-DD is at http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/YYYY-MM-DD.html

s there any way you would be willing to put the source up on GitHub?

I'd prefer not to do that, simply because it would encourage people to add extra load to the HN web server -- besides which, the code is extremely trivial and I'm sure anyone who wants to could replicate it easily. :-)

Maybe you could provide the data as a JSON feed? Then others can do their thing without hurting the HN servers. I imagine the bandwidth to serve them would be pretty small (or maybe I underestimate the hunger for HN JSON feeds :p)

I'm sure you have better things to do with your time, but it would be cool and maybe would lead to some other cool stuff...

I love the idea as I agree it is difficult to keep in the loop during the day with the volume of posts.

One quick request though, would it be possible in the RSS feed to send the entire post and not just the first ~125 characters?

Discussion about the annoucement (I'm not sure which people will vote for, the site or the announcement of the site): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1514037

EDIT: Looks like almost all of the discussion is over in the other thread.

> I'm not sure which people will vote for, the site or the announcement of the site

Apparently both :)

Yeah, I wasn't expecting that. I figured that once one had received a significant number of votes people would just pile onto that one.

(I considered only submitting the blog post, but I figured that if I didn't do it someone else would submit the direct link, and by submitting both at once at least I could have links pointing back and forth.)

I give him an "A" for effort but the higher the vote does not always equal the most interesting. Take yesterday for example...the old spice twitter feed. Wtf?

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