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ask: Would you try HN weekly newsletter?

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I thought it would be great to have weekly newsletter since I am wasting a lot of time visiting HN many times a day.

Newsletter comprised of webpages made to the top 30. Comes in pdf format so offline and archival are additional benefits.

Thanks

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codingdave
Not a chance.

I don't care about the top 30 - I browse for things that match my own interests. And depending on what they are, I might care about the linked article or I might care about the comments. Or both.

But a weekly newsletter in PDF form of the top 30 completely misses the mark of what I get out of HN.

Jeremy1026
Adding to this, is it everything that got to top 30 in the week? If so, the newsletter would be hundreds of items long.
keiferski
I think this has been done before. I’m not sure how successful it was. If you dig around in the archives I’m sure you’ll find something similar.

Personally, I get more value from the HN comments. So I would find a “top comments” of the week more insightful than just the top links.

dinkleberg
I’ve been subscribed to https://hackernewsletter.com/ for years. I imagine this would be tough to compete with.
duck
Thanks for the mention! It'll be 13 years this year... which is hard to believe.
dinkleberg
Thanks for running it! It has been invaluable to keep the FOMO away when I’ve gone through periods of cutting out all social media.
AlenWork
I usually check HN twice a day. I think that users of such portal already read everything which potentially could be in this weekly newsletter/
moomoo11
Wouldn’t mind if it’s monthly. Weekly I feel like I would probably know what hit the top.

You could also tag the content so if I wanna see the top AI or hardware or Geopolitics post I could sign up to see those. Some posts that way might filter past just the top 30.

Imo just the top 30 don’t add that much value. Tagged top 30 might, at least for me.

gardenhedge
I'd listen to a weekly podcast of the presenters going through the top stories
giantg2
Nah. My interests are varied. I also enjoy the discussion more than the article itself at least half the time.
KomoD
Nope, don't care for top 30
ksherlock
If done right, sure. I used to subscribe (via nntp via rss) to the n-gate HN weekly summary but that died out a couple years ago. But... if there was already a HN newsletter, would that save you time?