Hacker News Reader

Comment by smhinsey | Hacker News Reader

It's been basically my primary portal to the internet since it came out. Other than HN and reddit, which don't really produce super useful feeds, I don't really browse any sites directly anymore. I have always been looking for the next big thing to replace it, since there hasn't been a tremendous amount of effort put into it lately, but nothing has compared.

The feature that I have been sort of daydreaming about is the ability to use your subscriptions to weight your search results so that sites you've subscribed to are ranked higher.

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That would be a very interesting feature. My Reader search results are by far more useful than google.com results.

I'm also waiting for post to G+ from reader.

Read Later would also be very useful.

Yeah, I'd settle for a high quality search within reader itself, realizing that integration into the main search might be impossible.

I find it really confusing that the "Share" link in Reader still goes to Buzz, which is sort of associated with my G+ profile but not quite, in that it doesn't seem that people who are in my circles are necessarily able to see them.

The Instapaper bookmarklet works great in Google Reader :)

Shameless plug for more useful HN feeds: http://hnapp.com - filter posts by points, keywords, etc. and subscribe to the results by RSS.

Hey, then I can also put a link for http://jetsli.de here ;)

The next version will contain the possibility to include any rss feed and rank them to your personal needs. At the moment the first ten of your searches are used to boost articles if your are logged in.

You may prefer a modified reddit feed [1] where the article URL is the main RSS item URL, which makes the RSS feed much more useful.

[1] http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=bnYqwjiA3RGJxTckBR...

Thanks, that does look useful. It might be a good way to follow some low traffic subreddits without subscribing to them.

My main beef, however, is less with the content of the feed per se and more with the fact that they are in a fixed order, so you lose the curation aspect of voting.

"Hacker news Overload" has HN RSS feeds for posts rated >= 20, 50, 100, or 150:

http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...

Hm, thanks, I'll check that out. I'll probably still hit the site directly, but it'd be nice to have that archive in my account.

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