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Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does

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142 points dreadsword | 1 comments | 23 Oct 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

An honest to god, non-algorithmic reverse chrono list of tech news that passes my signal-to-noise tests, updated hourly.

A lightweight a page design as I've been able to keep; simple, clean, fast. No commercial features or aspirations - this is a passion project, something I've been fooling around with on and off for decades.

There's a "Top" view too with an LLM edited front page & summary, and categorized views for a large number of topics - see the Directory. A few more buried features to explore, but the fundamental use case is pop in, scan, exit - fast and concise.

Your feedback would be appreciated!

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taftster ◴[23 Oct 25 19:33 UTC] No.45685935[source]▶
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 creating a "wall of text" effect to me and I'm not able to quickly skim and allow my eye to catch the bits that are interesting to me.

As a comparison, the HN homepage is very accessible to me for skimming and finding things to click into (like this entry).

UI is often quite subjective, understood. But I can't really "scan" the first view fast enough. It's all blending together and causes extra processing on my mind.

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dreadsword ◴[23 Oct 25 19:40 UTC] No.45686041[source]▶
How about now? Story titles are still clickable links, but are black. Made the story count a link as well, and kept it blue as a visual cue.
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1. felideon ◴[23 Oct 25 20:13 UTC] No.45686463[source]▶
Some additional feedback:

There's no reason for both the story count and the story summary to be clickable. It's confusing because:

(a) It's not clear what the number in parentheses even means (until you click and infer)

(b) Separate links makes you think they lead to different pages

Also, echoing another comment, it's not really clear what "incoming" and "outgoing" stories mean. Maybe "new" vs. "stale"?