Show HN: Skim HN’s story feeds but with added metadata about linked articles

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2 points·timoteostewart··2 comments

Timbo’s “Hacker News” Reader (THNR) ingests the story feeds of HN’s news, new, best, classic, and active story feeds and displays the stories with thumbnail images from the linked article plus creature comforts like the estimated reading time, the name or handle of the article’s author, the percentages of programming languages (for GitHub links), a preview of first page of PDFs along with total PDF page count, and more. My aim in surfacing all this metadata from the linked articles was to help me find those stories I want to read, and I think it’ll serve that purpose for others too.

The comments link for each story goes straight to HN’s regular comments page in case you want to read or make comments on a story.

THNR’s about page: https://dev.thnr.net/about/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/timoteostewart/timbos-hn-reader

I know there are many regular and longtime HN readers who prefer the minimal, spare interface of HN’s website. By no means am I saying that my way of exploring the story feeds is superior. Only that having more information about the stories has worked well for me, and there are probably others like me who appreciate having additional details before making a decision whether to click a link or not.

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