Show HN: HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?

Hi everyone!<p>I love Hacker News, the problem is that, like all social platforms, it easily becomes a slot machine. Every time you look there is a new post or comment!<p>HackerDaily is built to alleviate this problem as well as a few others:<p>- The posts are grouped per day, starting from yesterday. So you never miss the best posts<p>- It has an improved collapsing comment system<p>- It’s a PWA, so you can install it to your homescreen and use it as an app<p>- It has a dark mode<p>- It&#x27;s open source[1]<p>I would love to hear what you think about it!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerdaily.io&#x2F;opensource" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerdaily.io&#x2F;opensource</a>

Very useful, nice work.<p>I find your HackerDaily comment section much more difficult to read compared to standard HN. I think it&#x27;s because Hacker News indentation is larger (with upvote&#x2F;downvote arrows), and standard HN uses almost the entire width of my 4K display (which makes almost every comment only 1 or 2 lines long), compared to your website which has a narrow column so wraps each comment into many paragraphs (which makes it harder to view the comment tree in a compact way).<p>I&#x27;m sure other users prefer the narrow column view, so take my feedback with a grain of salt.

Isn&#x27;t that what this is - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front</a>

Nice work~ I have built a similar service using GitHub action &amp; issues. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;headllines&#x2F;hackernews-daily&#x2F;issues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;headllines&#x2F;hackernews-daily&#x2F;issues</a> It creates an issue every day with top posts in it so that users can subscribe it by watching the repo or RSS

It&#x27;s hard to read. Maybe because the dark background is too light? Or maybe the typeface? I can&#x27;t read each list with focus, because the next or previous list is grabbing my attention too. Let&#x27;s say I read list number 2 title, my eyes simply jump up and down reading number 1 and 3. Have you consider to darken the background?<p>Anyway, nice design!

Love it! I&#x27;ve been wanting to write a reader that RSS-like ingests things and gives me a throttled digest - to reduce the frequency of the slot pulling behavior.<p>The problem i&#x27;ve been struggling with is how i properly summarize. The slot behavior is useful because slot-wins have material impact of finding content i do, actually, want to consume. Reducing the slot-pulls to once a day puts more weight on something else doing the filtering. Meaning i fear missing things i care about.<p>I wonder if there&#x27;s some type of non-ML pattern seeking implementation that will let you refine your filter to improve signal:noise. I say non-ML because i&#x27;m interested in non-trained, smaller locally hosted datasets.<p>Anyway, i digress. This is cool! I think i&#x27;ll let this thing be my slot-machine for the next few days and see if i feel like i&#x27;m missing anything. Appreciate it!

How is this different from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;front</a> ?

This site has been quite pleasant to use and read through. I especially liked the easy collapsibility of comment threads and the indication of the comment level.<p>While I haven’t used the site much, it seemed as if one could only navigate by day for the last one week. Is it possible to enter or choose a date and go to that date in the (probably distant) past? If yes, I haven’t discovered it. I don’t have time to catch up with some posts and threads within a week, and would like to use this interface if possible. I get that it may add to your storage and server costs to keep a longer term archive.

also <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daemonology.net&#x2F;hn-daily&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.daemonology.net&#x2F;hn-daily&#x2F;</a>

Awesome site, thanks for it! I am going to switch to it! One request: on mobile, when going back to HackerDaily from clicking a link, it loads the HackerDaily page at the top, so that I have to scroll back down to where I was. Minor inconvenience, but compare it to HN where I browse back, and HN loads right where I was. Again, thanks for this!

One request: AskHN&#x2F;ShowHN included as well.<p>I know it increases the content and thus the slot-machine surface area, but Show&#x2F;Ask represent a good portion of my desire to come HN at all. There are many super interesting posts that never make it to the front page.

This is fantastic! Love the choice of colors and fonts. It just might replace HN for me -- at least on my phone. The urge to refresh the frontpage is hard to control. I can see this helping.<p>edit: Just noticed the incredibly nifty comment collapsing buttons. Very intuitive.

Very cool!<p>Small Feedback: The &quot;Show HN&quot; tag does stand out a lot - giving it the vibe of something like a site administration announcement or an error message. Maybe you could consider toning it down a bit?<p>Otherwise, great work. Let&#x27;s see if I can replace normal HN :)

This is fantastic, and it’s the first PWA that I’ve felt the need to install.<p>Really nice work.<p>I would only add that the comments are way too big to be usable. I’d take a look at the Octal IOS app for an example of doing hacker news comments “right” in terms of size and display.

This is difficult to not like.<p>Nice color scheme!

Nice, I&#x27;m a big fan of this. This certainly is for the ones who just want to lurk the best posts and not get caught up on the &quot;what&#x27;s hot now&quot; every hour.

Is it possible to open links in safari or share them via the pwa? I use send to Firefox quite a bit on my phone

Looks great! :thumbsup:

I really like the idea, and the site is pretty. Is there a daily RSS feed too? I cannot find it.