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Comment by awb | Hacker News Reader

Interesting project and appreciate the simple / brutalist layout.

A couple questions:

1) That's a lot of news! Just browsing the headlines would take a long time. Any ideas on how to make it more compact? I'd definitely be interested in a site that could give me 15-30 high quality links per day across a diverse spectrum of content and sources.

2) I personally appreciate the discussion aspect of HN and wouldn't enjoy just visiting the links alone. Any thoughts around including a link back to the original HN discussion?

Thanks for sharing!

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1.) It is a lot! The frontpage in particular is almost overwhelming. Browsing by individual topics makes it a bit more digestible. One element I could support is a parameter you can supply in the URL to limit the amount of articles returned per source. The challenge with providing 15-30 high quality links is the "human editing" element required to do that effectively. I'd like to avoid that if at all possible, as well as not get into the business of harvesting visitors' personal information. There's no tracking or harvesting going on here whatsoever and I intend to keep it that way.

2.) Great idea, I could perhaps add an [hn] tag to those stories to preserve the link to the discussion.

Love the no tracking mojo, but it would be great if I could be able to "collapse" (equivalent to HN [-]) a site (hide all that site's stories) and have that setting remembered when I come back.

Putting it another way, I'm fine with manually parsing the long list, as long as I can manually exclude whole sites from hitting my eyeballs and have that work remembered next time I visit from the same device.

I've implemented a 'limit' query parameter you can optionally supply to control how much content is returned back from search source.

Example: https://brutalist.report/?limit=10 or https://brutalist.report/topic/business?limit=10

I like the compact headlines using

https://brutalist.report/?limit=5

Re 1): I agree. The source in small writing, then the top 3 stories only? With a drop down if you wanted more?

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