HN Explorer

Show HN: Top Links from Hacker News, Reddit, Techmeme, PH on a Single Page (alltoplinks.com)

131 points by Zakuzaa ↗ HN
Hi HN, this is something I created for my personal use and I have been using it daily for a long time now. It’s a page that shows top 25 links from the sources mentioned in the title. Updates every 10 minutes through a cron job and new links are always added to the top.

Some more details: It’s using simple heuristics like minimum upvotes/comments to select the links. For techmeme, only the first headline on techmeme.com is considered a top link. For reddit, currently fetching content from only a select few subreddits.

It’s just a simple page. No ad. No tracking. It’s the first tab I open in the morning. Suggestions and feedback are welcome. :)

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mberning
I like it. I would change the reddit contribution to only look at higher quality subs or just drop it. You have a generally decent mix of content on your page peppered with the worst of the worst from reddit.
marcusabu
First thing I noticed too. Filtering the sites would also be a nice feature.
sph
Took me a while to figure out which PH they refer to... it's Product Hunt.
0des
Imagine me wondering what the point of knowing the pH of a remote webserver was.
dspillett
Possible warning of signs that an alien has got in and is bleeding over your racks?
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onychomys
I was thinking that the top links from pornhub didn't really fit with the rest.
pengstrom
Wow haven't been to reddit in ages, surprised it's so (subjectively) bad. Has it gotten worse or was I a fool before? It's cringeworthy
xigoi
Yes, Reddit is getting worse ever since it became mainstream popular.
marginalia_nu
They've been pushing hard for growth as well, which I think is probably the single most devastating thing to an online community. There is some amount of growth that can be tolerated while maintaining a sense of community and common culture, but when the new members are pouring in by the thousands every day, that is no longer possible. Most participants will be strangers to each other.

What few subreddits have survived this are either incredibly niche, or aggressively working to make new members lurk before they post.

wmanley
I think "common culture" is precisely the problem with reddit. Before reddit there were many different separate forums. Each had to be signed up to separately and each had their own culture. With reddit there's little barrier between reddits, which has lead to a shared culture across the whole site. The culture is generally friendly, but is immature and superficial. It's great for small-talk, but useless and frustrating if you actually want to learn something.

Maybe I'm bitter, but I used to really enjoy r/rust up until 2 years ago or so. Now it's completely inane and it's no longer worth the time to sort through the noise to find the signal.

marginalia_nu
Right, when I say common culture I mean culture common to a specific subreddit. I don't think reddit as a whole has a common culture. It's like a train station and not like a village, everyone is always passing through.
ppqq
Can your post also be used as an allegory for a different context?
marginalia_nu
It's basically the difference between a village and a city. Reddit used to be like a bunch of villages, now it's like apartment buildings in the same city. Everyone is always a stranger in a city, people are always coming and going. You can walk down the same street the same time every day and see new faces every time.

That is exactly the same dynamic as is present on most of Reddit. Almost everyone you see is a stranger. Used to be (especially on old forums) you had some sort of relationship to the people you interacted with, you had a feel for their personality. Now it's just yet-another-new-username.

I think this is a major part of why there is so much tribalism online lately. People are desperately latching onto any sense of common identity to have something in common with the strangers they keep meeting.

ppqq
Cities were a mistake. ;) Anything with no borders and lots of strangers quickly turns into what public toilets do.
marginalia_nu
Well yeah, we just aren't wired to handle communities of that scale.
swader999
It feels different than just echo chamber, like it got taken over by a top driven agenda to push the corporate/global narratives the last three years.
laputan_machine
I think there are a few factors, but the biggest one I see is it's now so popular that every large sub has become an echochamber, you cannot disagree with the echochamber.

But, at the same time I think this has always been a problem, even 10 years ago the 'Reddit Hivemind' was a thing people spoke about. It's just worse now (because there are even more people using it, more bots reposting the same clickbait, more conglomeration of a few moderators owning several large subs)

0des
HN has a hivemind too believe it or not.

Edit: would the hivemind care to stop upvoting this so I could make my point here?

pokey00
definitely, but I like to think most people here are more self-aware or are less extreme about shouting down others. the heavy-hivemind topics always have a couple of good "woah there..." meta comments, and unlike reddit, they don't get buried and disappeared for the most part.
0des
post something pro-cryptocurrency
rjh29
The frontpage is pretty bad. In my experience smaller subreddits are still good quality. There's a reason why people add 'reddit' to their search queries after all.
m12k
Yeah, public reddit is terrible, but make an account, unsubscribe the default subreddits and subscribe to smaller subreddits, and it can be awesome. A selection of subreddits I can recommend (depending on your interests of course):

bodyweightfitness, breadit, dataisbeautiful, digitalnomad, onebag, Ultralight, walkablecities, cozy_places, artisanvideos, relationship_advice, bestof, financialindependence, gamedev, gamedesign, HighQualityGifs, museum, Pareidolia, programming, programmer_humor, space, startups, SaaS, webdev, science

SxC97
> walkablecities, cozy_places

I would also recommend r/raining for those cozy vibes!

dt2m
It really started sucking after the redesign, IMO. But who can blame them? What happened is the only outcome possible if your business model is Web 2.0.
hguant
Reddit had a big shift recently when they had their mobile first redesign - it's made the website subjectively worse to HN types...and has massively increased its appeal. That, combined with the deep algorithmic shifts to the front page after the 2016 election cycle (when every other post was either a "give money to the Sanders Campaign" or "MAGA forever") has made it more difficult for deeper or more esoteric content to rise to the front page.

That being said, I find that Reddit is like Twitter - if you take the time to curate and cultivate your subreddits, you can have a very good experience there. The best of Reddit is the small subreddits that fit your niche and your communities.

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coffeeblack
Reddit actively removed any diversity. Somewhat like Tw.
ppqq
You have to be more specific. Diversity of thought. Other types of diversity are heavily promoted.
jhickok
Reddit is nearly unusable out of box. Use it for smaller specialized interests and it can be very valuable. I use it for the baseball and hiking communities and I have a radically different experience than I otherwise would going thru /all.
hoseja
I've found out it gets surprisingly better around like page 10 of /r/all.
vesinisa
I like it. It loads really fast and there's nothing extra - just AllTopLinks.com like it says on the can.

BTW Probably a stupid question but what is the site with the logo that looks like a T with a hyphen/horizontal bar on top (T̄ or ₸)?

pc86
It looks like the logo for alltoplinks.com as it seems to be on any site where they haven't created or don't already have a logo matching their theme.
Zakuzaa
That T thing is for techmeme. That's the best icon I could find on fontawesome that resembled techmeme's icon.
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XCSme
Funny how you can usually know which site a link is from based on how the title is worded.

> I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge - HN

> What’s a sign of extremely low intelligence? - AskReddit

> Chinese government data shows domestic smartphone shipments fell 30% YoY to ~86M units in the first four months of 2022 amid the resurgence of COVID-19 in China - News/WSJ

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firebaze
Nice, will bookmark this. Could you change the reddit-links to point to old.reddit.com instead? Or would this break something else?
yoz-y
There really ought to be a filter there to ignore the most mainstream subreddits. AskReddit's value is below zero. (same questions and answers being posted over and over)
Night_Thastus
If it could integrate a blocklist like what Reddit Enhancement Suite uses, then I'd definitely consider it. I've filtered about 200 subreddits. That sounds like a lot, but there are a ton of duplicate terrible meme/armchair politics/lazy content subreddits worth hiding.
xeromal
There should almost be a blocklist similar to how ublock origin works. A maintained list of subreddits that are too bloated for their own good.
robswc
The funny thing is, there was a time I thought reddit was "much better" than the likes of youtube and twitter for "serious topics" but over the past few years I've realized its the same thing, just being drawn out several paragraphs, lol.
jonwest
Just an absolute sea of “onion on my belt” stories.
robswc
For me its the fact that everyone has to be an expert on everything, all the time.
Fuzzwah
Is it possible for you to export your list so we can import it?
Night_Thastus
I don't think RES offers such a feature, but I could be wrong. Even if it did, mine is personalized, there are other subreddits sprinkled in there that others might not want to block.
sumthinprofound
I would subscribe via RSS if a feed was available.
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blinding-streak
I expected something like the now defunct popurls.com, but this is much nicer. Good work.
mkl
Similar but more for general news is https://sumi.news/, which has more sites and groups the stories by site.
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RISKIAWAN
hellow Hacker.. salam dari indonesia
Operyl
A suggestion: filtering out NSFW posts. There's an AskReddit NSFW post at the bottom right now, haha. Or having a page where it's filtered out, I think.
freediver
This has been around for a while and does the same thing (perhaps even better)

https://news.t0.vc

Zakuzaa
Wow it's actually pretty good. Thanks.
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2b3a51 

    You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.
    https://news.t0.vc/
OA does display the basic list of links when JavaScript is disabled. Good luck to both projects.
2b3a51
Thank you for sharing this work. I've now bookmarked your page. A few suggestions...

Date and time displayed on each link

Consider adding an RSS feed

Consider (real edge case here) adding a plain text alternative with the origin Web site stated after each link (e.g. test using links or w3m in a terminal)

systemvoltage
The best there is IMO: https://skimfeed.com/

High density, compact and loads fast.

tsuujin
Seems like it’s a good desktop option, but the mobile UX isn’t there. A single column responsive layout would make a big difference.
JetSpiegel
> No Tracking

And yet, loads 5 domains straight up: cloudflare, fotawesome, hwcdn, jquery

Zakuzaa
Good catch. I have removed jquery. Now fontawesome is the only outside file that's being called.
t_mann
Fyi, you can achieve something similar tailored to your own preferences by using a tool like rssmix.com plus the RSS reader of your choice.