Slow HN is a Hacker News aggregator that allows for easy user-defined throttling of post updates.<p>I love HN, but frequently find myself mindlessly refreshing the page throughout the day. This feels unproductive and sometimes unhealthy. Tools like browser extensions that time-limit domains haven't been effective for me, so I decided to try to build something that would trick my brain a little more cleverly.<p>On the backend, Slow HN is a Go server that frequently pulls the best posts from the HN API. It persists data about those posts, as well as their position on the page, to a sqlite3 database. When a user selects their desired update frequency, they receive a list of the weighted-average best posts from the relevant interval. The whole thing is running on a $5 VPS.<p>I'm also picking up great historical data about HN posts and looking forward to publishing periodic summaries of the best posts!<p>(Another purpose for the project was to learn more about React, so apologies to the <noscript> crowd.)