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Show HN: I made a slower, delayed Hacker News

slowhn.com

29 pointsaramadia15 comments

I saw the title, misunderstood the nature of the delay, and thought “oh are you developing a SPA framework?” (no I’m not disparaging SPAs or their frameworks; this is a reference to, IIRC, SolidJS creator’s reasonable point that HN clones make for poor SPA performance demos because HN will always be faster).

Anyway, I was very confused when the page loaded almost instantly, but thankfully the About page does too :)

HN clones aren't always slower than real HN! Maybe I'm cheating a bit, but I'm developing a HN client that is a offline-first desktop client, and it's way faster than official HN can ever be, as accessing local disk is most certainly faster than accessing network resources :) But again, I'm cheating a bit.

How does this compare with the version made by cperviva http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ ?

(I'm not complaining. Each one can implement their own version. Moreover, perhaps you didn't know about it.)

Didn't know it existed, perhaps I would've used it. I like hckrnews.com interface, but wanted some help to reduce my screen time.

I really like this interface. If this had a 'fast' version it would replace the landing page of hacker news for me

I think what you want exists: https://hckrnews.com

Edit: Actually, now that I have read the about page for slowhn, it's literally a clone of hckrnews with some features stripped out and some intentional "rate limiting" to slow down how quickly new stories appear.

Looks like the exact same thing with the exact same name has been done before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16171235

I like it a lot. Two things: it'd be great to be able to sort by comments / points, and you have a broken link - click about and then about again (suggest this link should actually change to "home" when you're on the about page).

Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/best

I believe it’s the same thing that you made. I changed my bookmark to that URL. I think it makes me spend less time on here.

I tried that and /front as well, but I developed a even strong reload habit trying to find a new story. Glad it works for you!

If I may be so bold, as I’m not the submitter:

https://www.slowhn.com/static/about.html

“SlowHN is a clone of hckrnews.com because I wanted to stop compulsively checking the website every hour. This shows the top stories from yesterday, and only updates once per day like a newspaper.”

Nice work! The about section says that it updates once per day.

What time of day does it update?

It would be great if you added a rss feed that updates once a day

Looks like someone already did it (from another comment). http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

YOur UI kills me. Dope stuff.

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