Newser
Productivity
news reader pdf generator
SHOW HN2022
47points
18comments
#1,005of 2,570 in 2022
Top 40%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.33.
Idea: 3 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Idea seen as useful for e-ink or minimal reading.
From 2 comments
Cool idea! With the user-hostile modern web, there's something appealing to having a visibly finite, static, and focused piece of content.
enw on HNThis is great! If it's useful, I work on a project where we maintain a repository of XPath selectors for extracting article content from many different sites:…
k1m on HN
Objections
Config and margin controls are limited and rough.
From 2 comments
Is the amount of words per line / margins controlled by the config? Configuration was a bit messy (to me) so I figured I'd ask. If I used this I know I'd like to have large…
TheFreim on HNNot for now, but I plan on adding more styling customizations, margins are pretty simple to add so I'll do it probably tomorrow. I also plan on doing some more complex stuff when…
lnenad on HN
Requests
Add margin and styling customization.
From 2 comments
Is the amount of words per line / margins controlled by the config? Configuration was a bit messy (to me) so I figured I'd ask. If I used this I know I'd like to have large…
TheFreim on HNNot for now, but I plan on adding more styling customizations, margins are pretty simple to add so I'll do it probably tomorrow. I also plan on doing some more complex stuff when…
lnenad on HN
Questions
Why get a Supernote if it is used for news?
From 1 comment
> I've gotten myself a Supernote A5X (awesome device btw) and since it doesn't have a web browser or anything I've wanted to have a way to read news on it. I've ordered one of…
TheFreim on HN
Alternatives named
Calibre can produce similar output.
From 1 comment
I've not done used the feature in ages, but I'm pretty sure Calibre can do something similar.
alan_n on HN
RSS-to-Kindle scripts using pandoc and ConTeXt.
From 1 comment
I had a similar setup for creating PDF files from RSS feeds (https://github.com/adityam/rss2kindle). I was simply downloading the webpage, using pandoc to convert HTML to…
adiM on HN
FiveFilters site config and PDF tools.
From 1 comment
This is great! If it's useful, I work on a project where we maintain a repository of XPath selectors for extracting article content from many different sites:…
k1m on HN