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Jaco
Awesome website! Thanks for sharing :-)
thedudemabry
Haha, that's awesome. I hope you keep it up because it's my new home page!
snaveint
A simple, yet extremely useful site. Love it; I can see myself regularly using this.
railswarrior
Hey nice compilation mate , only thing that it misses is the discussion forum .Would love to see that :)

Well that's why i keep coming to Hacker News or reddit and keeps you engaged .

Guys at Hacker News discussion forums are one the best people to talk to regarding technical topics .

hanzenlim
thnx for the input mate, ill try to add discussion forum in the future.
sangupta
Congrats - this is just so awesome! How about adding an RSS feed and tweaking the UI a bit to make it more usable - for the specky ones like me :)
amirf
Great job! All you need now is a better UI for mobiles and I'm sold :)

What web technology did you choose for this?

hanzenlim
I used ruby on rails for backend, then xpath to parse through each sites for links
[dead] bilbobaggie
This is seriously going to improve my quality of life :)
mforsberg
I really like the sources and amount of content you picked out. Good choice of a domain as well.

But like sangupta and amirf I think you should improve the UI a bit; maybe have a go with twitter's bootstrap?

One thing I really would like is that you skip the two columns and narrowed it down do one column and worked a bit on the navigation so that it's on one line or grouped in some shape or form.

emp_
When we see people complaining of the excess of Bootstrap sites around, they tend to forget what they would feel/look/be like before such frameworks existed.
srik
Nice work.

It would be nice to have sortable sources and comments, like popurls does. (Although popurls doesnt have hn comments, which is painful)

Also, have you considered eliminating links that have been duplicated over different sources.

mgurlitz
Very cool site. Looks like you might have a Unicode problem: "Show HN: My Github résumé"
brianfryer
Is there something that you can do about the floating social bar?

On iOS, it hovers over some of the content :-(

http://imgur.com/hwmWN

Other than that, though... YAY!

hanzenlim
thnx for letting me know, ill fix it asap :)
autophil
The floating social bar is still there on my iOS, and it's disruptive. Please fix. Great site otherwise.
hanzenlim
fixed it, should work now. sorry it took me a while :O
eatitraw
Added to bookmarks! It may become my favourite website for procrastination. :)

What I don't like is two-column layout: it makes title boxes have uneven height. Even both columns have different weights. It would be nice to see numbered list for sites with numbered postings - like HN(of course, if it's not by design, for example, if your project uses custom ranking and selection systems for publications).

awef
Fix the encoding, add a favicon and change the font from Times and I'd probably use it :)
johnnymonster
I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while now. Any thoughts on open sourcing it, putting it up on github?
skizm
This reminds me of jimmyr.com which is how I came across reddit/digg/hackernews in the first place. Not sure how I came across jimmyr.com in the first place though :\",
sktrdie
If you keep it ads free I'll use it. Please remove the left sidebar
Sharma
Cool site! My suggestion for more features/changes:

1. Social share bar for each link. 2. Finding common links/stories in all those tech sites. 3. Probably a tab view? 4. Search feature!

madmax108
Love the idea! :)

Would be even cooler if I could add/remove sites and reorder them ...