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hacker_newspaper

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hacker news reformatted

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This is a very rewarding thing to do. I recommend it to everyone. You don't necessarily even need to use AI. I filter HN with http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/, which pulls…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-02-03 00:38:31 UTC to 2024-11-06 18:30:06 UTC.

0122010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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tessierashpool·Nov 6, 2024
I agree, but I'm biased. I built basically the same app as OP back in 2009 and it had different headline sizes like a newspaper: https://github.com/gilesbowkett/hacker_newspaper/blob/master... I kept it running for 5 or 10 years but eventually let it die. edit: I'm not hating on OP btw. their version has pics, which mine doesn't. just agreeing that I believe the visual hierarchy inherent to newspaper title design is an important benefit of the format.
In Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize
iamgilesbowkett·Feb 17, 2012Recommendation phrase
This is a very rewarding thing to do. I recommend it to everyone. You don't necessarily even need to use AI. I filter HN with http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/, which pulls RSS, filters it, and reformats it on an hourly cron job. I mainly did it for the typography -- I disagree with just about every visual design decision on Hacker News -- but added very primitive filtering after the fact. I throw out any story from TechCrunch, Zed Shaw, Steve Yegge, and Jeff Atwood, because I just got tired of them, and any story with "YC" in it, too, because I got tired of seeing job ads for Y Combinator startups. (In fact it was the job ad for a Curebits marketing manager right after their scandal that did it.) When Apple launched the iPad, I went in and added a simple regex to filter out any story about it. Hacker News is a great source for skimming
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but occasionally gets fixated on topics. I get like a hundred uniques a day so it's not exactly a huge hit, but I've thought about making a commercial version with customization. It got featured on Mashable and somebody created an iPad app which looked very, VERY similar, which I'm going to take as validating my design. But whether or not I ever startupify it, anyone who wants a customized version can just fork the project, deploy their own version in like ten or twenty minutes, and tweak regexes to their heart's content. It's on GitHub (https://github.com/gilesbowkett/hacker_newspaper) and only requires the most basic proficiency with cron, ruby, and python. I also want to add comment-scanning. Right now I don't use comment links at all. The code extracts them but then simply throws them away. I don't want to add comment links back in unless I can also set it up to alert me if the comments thread contains comments from raganwald, patio11, jashkenas, amyhoy, etc -- basically automated comment elitism. I'm not trying to be a dick with that, I'm just a busy dude. Anyway, when I set out to do this, I planned on doing a bunch of Bayesian whatnot, but I found that I got most of the way there just tweaking regexes occasionally. Likewise there's a lot of rough edges I could clean up, e.g., text encoding is a bit of a mess, and summarization in the style of http://tldr.it/ would make it way more useful. But I recommend it because making deliberate decisions about what info you want to get from HN makes it a lot less like watching TV and a lot more like doing actual research into topics which interest you. It's surprising how much more enjoyable HN becomes when viewed through a customized filter.
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