Hi everyone, OP here. This is the story of HNdigest.
You see, I've gotten so much good content from Hacker News. Some days, I'd have to keep up with the top stories and happen on a great JavaScript library, or a really educational blog post. Then I started to think, what was I missing on those days where I was too busy to check what's making top news? I really started to worry about missing all the good content. So, I set out to create HNdigest for myself so I could sleep better at night.
Now, what I'm planning on adding soon _may_ excite some of you. I'm planning to add the ability for you to choose the topics that you want to subscribe to. So, if you never cared about politics too much, you won't be bothered with it....more Python links coming your way, good sir (if you're into that type of stuff).
Anyway, it's been and I'd love to hear what you think about it.
How does it compare with HN Summaries and the HN newsletter? Have you investigated the other attempts to do something similar in the past? What exactly do you do that's different?
My humble opinion: When I cannot keep pace with HN, I cannot keep pace with it through email also. I do not prefer to have a backlog of things to read (which is one of the characters of my inbox) since I cannot possibly read everything of interest to me. I find it better to search HN at times of need than maintain a heavy cache of it in my mind to avoid what would be like a premature optimization.
It's quite rough around the edges, but the idea is that you follow individuals rather than topics. Any feedback is appreciated (but I won't be able to incorporate it until the competition freeze is over, in a couple of days).
To the mod that changed the title: Is Get top Hacker News posts in your inbox more informative than the original HNdigest: The top Hacker News stories in your inbox, on your own terms?
I feel like the new title doesn't reflect that HNdigest gives you control over the emails you receive and it's not just a dump.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, I'm kind of wondering your take.
Sounds good to me. It doesn't say it anywhere on the site, so I was just asking. Also, it would be nice to be assured that I'll get only emails that I'm signing up for. Just an idea for your site to put some people at ease. I'm signing up though.
I have to say the number of 'shameless' plugs on this thread is really quite shameful. It really reinforces the reason that I don't read HN much anymore; it's become a self-promotion pit instead of a venue for actual discussion.
Another shameless plug: if you need a curated, hand-picked, carefully designed, paper version of Hacker News (that delivered to your doorstep), there's always the good ol' Hacker Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com).
Just wanted to say we are subscribed here at the office and it's a great way to catch up with HN on bus commutes -- the quality of curated articles as well as the "packaging" is top notch; keep up the great work
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[ 0.28 ms ] story [ 80.5 ms ] threadYou see, I've gotten so much good content from Hacker News. Some days, I'd have to keep up with the top stories and happen on a great JavaScript library, or a really educational blog post. Then I started to think, what was I missing on those days where I was too busy to check what's making top news? I really started to worry about missing all the good content. So, I set out to create HNdigest for myself so I could sleep better at night.
Now, what I'm planning on adding soon _may_ excite some of you. I'm planning to add the ability for you to choose the topics that you want to subscribe to. So, if you never cared about politics too much, you won't be bothered with it....more Python links coming your way, good sir (if you're into that type of stuff).
Anyway, it's been and I'd love to hear what you think about it.
Well, two things:
1.) You get to refine exactly when you want the emails to be sent to you and how many of them you want.
2.) You'll be able to subscribe to selected topics (sooon).
Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for your feedback!
Yeah, it's definitely possible. To launch, I was trying to keep the number of combination to a minimum.
Yes, because sometimes it's the lower-ranked articles that are interesting. Also: Is Ask HN included? It would be nice to see those as well.
http://hs.clojurecup.com/
It's quite rough around the edges, but the idea is that you follow individuals rather than topics. Any feedback is appreciated (but I won't be able to incorporate it until the competition freeze is over, in a couple of days).
Collects posts that reaches top 3. RSS is at http://www.tophnnews.com/rss
I feel like the new title doesn't reflect that HNdigest gives you control over the emails you receive and it's not just a dump.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, I'm kind of wondering your take.
The best way to get the HN title you want is to post a blog entry with that title, and then link to that.
example Issue #158 : http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=faa8eb4ef3a111cef92c4f3d...
Also, if you got to the link, you'll find that I'm planning on adding filter where you could filter out specific types of posts.
What else would you be concerned about?
http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
Another shameless plug: if you need a curated, hand-picked, carefully designed, paper version of Hacker News (that delivered to your doorstep), there's always the good ol' Hacker Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com).
No internet connection required :)
Just wanted to say we are subscribed here at the office and it's a great way to catch up with HN on bus commutes -- the quality of curated articles as well as the "packaging" is top notch; keep up the great work