While Hacker News is a great place for finding great links/articles, it cannot be subscribed to (unlike a blog). This makes it difficult to read this through devices like Kindle. So last weekend turned to be pretty productive for me trying to put the two together:<p>http://hnkindle.blogspot.com/<p>The application uses a specialized library (boilerpipe - http://code.google.com/p/boilerpipe/) for extracting just article contents from links. Also, HN has a lot of links showing up in the Top 30 moving up and down every single day. I have put in place a simple heuristic (which is explained in the app) to chose only the prominent. At the moment, the heuristic is quite arbitrary.<p>Your feedback is most welcome!
While Hacker News is a great place for finding great links/articles, it cannot be subscribed to (unlike a blog). This makes it difficult to read this through devices like Kindle. So last weekend turned to be pretty productive for me trying to put the two together:<p><a href="http://hnkindle.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hnkindle.blogspot.com/</a><p>The application uses a specialized library (boilerpipe - <a href="http://code.google.com/p/boilerpipe/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/boilerpipe/</a>) for extracting just article contents from links. Also, HN has a lot of links showing up in the Top 30 moving up and down every single day. I have put in place a simple heuristic (which is explained in the app) to chose only the prominent. At the moment, the heuristic is quite arbitrary.<p>Your feedback is most welcome!