Ask HN: What's the fastest way to get updated on what's trending on Hacker News?

14 pointsSkyTreasure6y ago24 comments

I want to know apart from visiting the website quite often is there any other way to consume hacker news data as and when new things are up?

Is there any app recommendations which does help in this process?

24 comments

abdusco6y ago

Use hckrnews.com.

It lists entries in a chronological view and let's you filter it by top 10/20/50%/frontpage/all. I've been using it as default HN client for years now and really recommend it.

nestorherre6y ago

This, since discovering it I've only browsed HN by using it.

marak8306y ago

I second this, it's been a very useful frontend for me for quite a while now.

SkyTreasureOP6y ago

That nice alternative will check it out. Filter is pretty useful.

sjl6y ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing..

t_mann6y ago

I consume HN almost exclusively through RSS. hnrss.org offers many options for customizing your feed, including whether you want to link to the linked website or the comments page and many others...

BenoitP6y ago

RSS reader on https://news.ycombinator.com/best

HNLurker26y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments

JacKTrocinskI6y ago

On a sort of similar but different note, does anyone know of a way to get a notification if someone replies to a comment I posted?

perilunar6y ago

Try: https://www.hnreplies.com

rohitbhats6y ago

I created an IFTTT workflow. Whenever there is a post that's gaining traction on Hackernews I get a notification on my Slack. I use some Slack features to remind me of it later if i am busy, also Pin somethings or Star.

SkyTreasureOP6y ago

I was looking for something like this. Any idea whether IFTTT expose some api where i can create custom hooks for some other personal applications may be like android app?

rohitbhats6y ago

Not sure about the API, I just used whatever was currently available. I am sure there might be someplace on IFTTTs api - https://platform.ifttt.com/docs this may be a good place to start.

xcubic6y ago

How do you define "gaining traction"?

rohitbhats6y ago

TLDR: Its a mystery to me. I don’t know where HN is sending this from!

This is how my workflow looks like if ‘top story on HN’ then ‘slack me’ Now when I created this workflow, I was expecting to get results when something hits the front page-top news but what I saw was—it giving me news with even 2 upvotes sometimes and that thing wasn’t even there on the first page. Honestly it’s a mystery to me. In fact I even tried comparing ‘new section’ with the results I was receiving and they didn’t match! You can check this on IFTTT hackernews just select top news when creating your workflow. Also what I realized was these news hit the top section a while later the notifications-not all but a lot.

spraak6y ago

I've been thinking of trying to hook up a neural network for this that could send me summaries of what I tell it I'm interested in but also what it 'thinks' that I might be interested in.

SkyTreasureOP6y ago

That would be amazing, to get a summary of each article in the top trending 30.

ydnaclementine6y ago

Just the normal RSS feed on my rss reader

newscracker6y ago

hckrnews: https://hckrnews.com

If you use Telegram, subscribe to the Hacker News Feed channel (top stories with 100+ points). [1]

[1]: https://t.me/hacker_news_feed

antoniorosado6y ago

This looks amazing. Nice share.

simplecomplex6y ago

hnrss.org with a filter for points.

https://hnrss.org/newest?points=500

I read the newest posts as they reach 500 upvotes delivered to my RSS reader (feedbin).

abbiya6y ago

8hrs.xyz

k_6y ago

Nice, though throwing a little context along with the url wouldn't hurt. For those that haven't opened the url yet, it's a list of "trending" HN topics for the last 8, 16 or 24 hours.

Is it only using hacker news as a source, or other sites too? I only saw HN links, but I didn't look at them all.

rampante6y ago

What is that?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

24 comments

abdusco6y ago

Use hckrnews.com.

It lists entries in a chronological view and let's you filter it by top 10/20/50%/frontpage/all. I've been using it as default HN client for years now and really recommend it.

nestorherre6y ago

This, since discovering it I've only browsed HN by using it.

marak8306y ago

I second this, it's been a very useful frontend for me for quite a while now.

SkyTreasureOP6y ago

That nice alternative will check it out. Filter is pretty useful.

sjl6y ago

Interesting, thanks for sharing..

t_mann6y ago

I consume HN almost exclusively through RSS. hnrss.org offers many options for customizing your feed, including whether you want to link to the linked website or the comments page and many others...

BenoitP6y ago

RSS reader on https://news.ycombinator.com/best

HNLurker26y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments

JacKTrocinskI6y ago

On a sort of similar but different note, does anyone know of a way to get a notification if someone replies to a comment I posted?

perilunar6y ago

Try: https://www.hnreplies.com

rohitbhats6y ago

SkyTreasureOP6y ago

I was looking for something like this. Any idea whether IFTTT expose some api where i can create custom hooks for some other personal applications may be like android app?

rohitbhats6y ago

Not sure about the API, I just used whatever was currently available. I am sure there might be someplace on IFTTTs api - https://platform.ifttt.com/docs this may be a good place to start.

xcubic6y ago

How do you define "gaining traction"?

rohitbhats6y ago

TLDR: Its a mystery to me. I don’t know where HN is sending this from!

spraak6y ago

I've been thinking of trying to hook up a neural network for this that could send me summaries of what I tell it I'm interested in but also what it 'thinks' that I might be interested in.

SkyTreasureOP6y ago

That would be amazing, to get a summary of each article in the top trending 30.

ydnaclementine6y ago

Just the normal RSS feed on my rss reader

newscracker6y ago

hckrnews: https://hckrnews.com

If you use Telegram, subscribe to the Hacker News Feed channel (top stories with 100+ points). [1]

[1]: https://t.me/hacker_news_feed

antoniorosado6y ago

This looks amazing. Nice share.

simplecomplex6y ago

hnrss.org with a filter for points.

https://hnrss.org/newest?points=500

I read the newest posts as they reach 500 upvotes delivered to my RSS reader (feedbin).

abbiya6y ago

8hrs.xyz

k_6y ago

Nice, though throwing a little context along with the url wouldn't hurt. For those that haven't opened the url yet, it's a list of "trending" HN topics for the last 8, 16 or 24 hours.

Is it only using hacker news as a source, or other sites too? I only saw HN links, but I didn't look at them all.

rampante6y ago

What is that?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse