Hckr news – Hacker News sorted by time
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I made one[0] for myself that splits by day, and otherwise orders by score within day, but grouped into categories and keywords (or site). Clicking the title shows yesterday's or older stories. It started out being a single page view that I could load while commuting in the subway that had intermittent Internet on my phone, and load several story links at each stop. I've since stopped commuting of course but still use it so I'm not playing dopamine slot machine.
I still want to improve it to be able to categorize story groups lower (or suppress them) and surface niche stories that may not have made the front page but of non-mainstream interests that I (or others) may care about--perhaps with some sort of reader-driven tagging system.
I need to keep track of twitter for work purposes but I don't want to login everyday.
Having quick next/previous tabs for days plus sort by likes or comments is invaluable.
This is the same content but with a better and responsive design. And by that I don't just mean how it looks but the core functionality of the site. How it looks is actually pretty minimalistic and clean.
Finding stuff back on HN is tricky because the page changes all the time and the items re-order and disappear. This gets rid of that by sorting by time. And then you can narrow it down with top 10% and top 50%. So simple and effective. I loved Twitter and Facebook a lot more before they decided to be "clever" and hired a lot of machine learning propeller heads that completely ruined the experience by trying to second guess what I should be seeing and not seeing (which mostly serves their needs rather than mine).
HN of course has a much more simplistic algorithm of some formula involving time, upvotes, and number of comments. It works in combination with the old school paged list of stuff where the page size was set in stone to 30. It creates a sense of urgency for people to get their link on the front page. It's prime real-estate and it replaced slashdot in that sense.
This seems to keep the best parts of that by simply sorting by time and getting rid of the 30 items per page thing with a more modern design. You can simply scroll back as far as you want and still benefit from the "frontpage" notion by filtering.
I’d been gradually customizing it on my phone by using an inspector extension and a custom CSS extension. Recently another poster shared a more thorough stylesheet, so I switched to that. It wasn’t entirely my preference but it’s close enough that I was satisfied to stop trying to customize someone else’s website on my phone.
Well, since then one thing after another has started getting smaller and closer together again, presumably as selectors change for other purposes.
I’ve previously built a dark mode extension that I won’t link because it’s also broken now. I’d love to actually contribute mobile friendly styles that people could opt into. But as far as I can tell HN is intended to be used by people with perfect eyesight and perfect hand eye coordination with a mouse on a good desk surface and a large screen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
Not so customizable, though.
Also sends push notifications for when someone replies/comments to your post/comment.
Screenshots:
iOS, iPadOS and MacOS:
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...
Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...
With their shift of focus to PURE ads it has now become a hemorrhoid of the internet (unless you use custom clients)
That's the killer feature, it's amazing what a little cookie can do to vastly improve the user experience.
Kudos for including post mortems in the feed at all though! Many would not.
Is there a way to jump to a specific day? Let's say August 30th 2022.
I see each day has a single GET request (for example https://hckrnews.com/data/20220830.js) but it doesn't refresh the site.
How my app processes a URL like https://hckrnews.com/data/20220830.js:
https://github.com/Leftium/hckrweb/blob/d3bfff14e89ffc1cd96c...
(I browse with showdead but I still have a signal that says “this may not be worth your time” before reading.)
Honestly that'd be nice. I don't know about details, but some way to know why a comment is gray would be nice.
"All comments start with a score of 1 point (but in order to prevent bandwagoning, the comment score is not visible to users other than the author). After users reach 501 Karma, they gain the ability to downvote another comment. Downvoted comments (i.e. with a score < 1) reduce their placement on the comment thread and will appear desaturated to other users deemphasize them."
[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...
For some reason, I’ve found that I still miss some interesting posts with hckrnews. Maybe it’s because those posts have been pushed down in ranking over the hours I’m not checking or because I’m not using the available filters. So I still go to HN directly sometimes.
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