Hacker News Reader

Hey, I made this. I built it for myself, have been using it privately for the last six months, and opened it up publicly for friends this morning. (Which is why it has no credits/about page/nav/etc.)

It's an automated aggregator streaming tweets from around 1,000 Twitter accounts, extracting and normalizing the links, and then ordering them with a dead-simple ranking algorithm favoring URLs that resemble new projects/sites over articles/blog posts.

That's pretty much it, no idea how it ended up here.

Any RSS feed planned ?

Not sure what this is. No about page, no sitemap. Can anyone give me some insight?

How did this even get to the front page of HN with no context in any way?

~8 unique people with different IP's who know how to game the system.

What am I looking at here?

Looks like the top posts from Show HN and Product Hunt.

On there link list they have belong.io listed described as:

"Hey, I made a new thing: It’s a Twitter-fueled link aggregator that favors new projects/sites over n…"

So I'm guessing they are grabbing sites from twitter, but no clue if there is any method to the madness. I wouldn't be surprised if it was manual or if it was just pulling from one persons twitter.

Belong.io