Deadstack
Productivity
news aggregator
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How HN took it
19 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 6 critical, out of 49 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.
Idea: 10 for, 0 againstDesign: 4 for, 6 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean, fast, simple design
From 3 comments
Really good, clean and to the point, love it.
neilellis on HNSimplistic site, looks clean and easy to navigate!
productiveminds on HNThumbs up! This low-friction aggregator beats Ground News and other aggregators by a mile for simplicity and easy to read. Nice work!
Jaauthor on HN
LLM overview saves clicking away to each site
From 1 comment
I love that your site comes with an overview instead of clicking away to another site immediately. Feels snappy and looks good. I can see this being my news roundup. Great work!
NetOpWibby on HN
Good for news roundup
From 2 comments
I love that your site comes with an overview instead of clicking away to another site immediately. Feels snappy and looks good. I can see this being my news roundup. Great work!
NetOpWibby on HNWow. That's amazing! I've bookmarked it because I think it's one of the best news sites I've seen now.
wccrawford on HN
Objections
Hard to scan; blue links and spacing create a wall of text
From 2 comments
I'm not sure, something about the "Recent Stories Summary" section (first view) is hard to read. The spacing is wrong. And the blue font. Someone mentioned Garamond too. It's…
taftster on HNI hear you about "links are blue" ... except when you are a link aggregator. The links are blue design from early HTML was meant to highlight links in the context of a paragraph…
taftster on HN
Incoming and outgoing labels are unclear
From 3 comments
This is probably a dumb question, but.. what does "incoming" and "outgoing" mean?
amatecha on HNOh, sure, but I literally just don't understand what their meaning is >_>
amatecha on HNReally nice and clean, well done. What is the purpose of having summaries for "Recent", "Incoming", and "Outgoing" all at the top? Seems like all content from the later two are…
metalliqaz on HN
Cookie banner is intrusive
From 2 comments
If I'm not logged in you don't need cookies. Being blasted in the face with a cookie banner as the first thing on a web page is very disrespectful.
mariusor on HNIf you can get rid of the cookies message that would be great, as I will place the site as an app in my phone and that message is annoying to have when I open it.
tamimio on HN
Too many product announcements, too few blogs
From 1 comment
I would love this but with more blogs and less product announcements.
stevage on HN
Requests
RSS feed support
From 2 comments
In case you are still reading this: Any plans to add RSS etc.? I might be in a small minority, but for me my feedreader is the central source. If I can't subscribe via feed, it…
jantissler on HNRSS?
jarmitage on HN
Hide items already scrolled past
From 1 comment
Maybe I'm the only one but I would love a feed that never showed me items again that I've already scrolled past without engaging in the first time.
swader999 on HN
Publish source list and code
From 3 comments
I just configured my own rss website to only find this awesome solution. I’m crying right now if only it found you earlier I would have saved me so much time. Also do you have…
tiaremnt on HNThis is great! Are you using a news API or pulling in RSS feeds yourself? Is there a list of what sources are included?
chicagojoe on HNVery nice, I've been working on something similar, but for regular news. But I want to summarize complete articles, and RSS only provides the headlines and sometimes the first…
gitaarik on HN
Suggest more blogs and sources
From 1 comment
I hear you - today was heavier on product announcements than normal I feel. And re: blogs - for sure: send me suggestions and I'll add them...!
dreadsword on HN
Questions
How clustering is done with LLMs
From 2 comments
This is pretty cool man. How do you cluster the articles into stories? It looks like you did a good job of it.
_menelaus on HNPretty cool! How do you do to build these "stories" based on news?
jiwidi on HN
How titles avoid confabulation
From 1 comment
How do you ensure the titles aren’t confabulated? I’ve used Kagi News recently and it summed up the articles about France wrong (that’s the only section in which I could reliably…
Diti on HN
What the signal-to-noise test is
From 1 comment
So the question really is; What is your "signal-to-noise test"?
HardwareLust on HN
Alternatives named
Techmeme
From 1 comment
A similar site I've enjoyed for >15 years (!!) is https://techmeme.com/ I also use it's sister aggregator site for political news every day - https://www.memeorandum.com/
nathanwallace on HN
Particle News
From 1 comment
looks very similar to https://particle.news how would you distinguish your approach (other than the tech focus)?
clueless on HN
News Minimalist
From 1 comment
Put the number of occurrences (I assume that's the # at the end) first to help with signal to noise ratio based on quantity of coverage maybe? I'd also take a look at news…
gneuron on HN
Ground News
From 1 comment
Thumbs up! This low-friction aggregator beats Ground News and other aggregators by a mile for simplicity and easy to read. Nice work!
Jaauthor on HN
Kagi News
From 1 comment
How do you ensure the titles aren’t confabulated? I’ve used Kagi News recently and it summed up the articles about France wrong (that’s the only section in which I could reliably…
Diti on HN