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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 | 4 comments | 23 Oct 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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swader999 ◴[23 Oct 25 21:44 UTC] No.45687642[source]▶
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.
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1. stevage ◴[23 Oct 25 22:10 UTC] No.45687987[source]▶
Me too. That's the number one thing I always wish for with every feed. And if I reach the end of the feed, that's fine.
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2. taftster ◴[23 Oct 25 22:31 UTC] No.45688204[source]▶
Right, I'm so tired of "infinite scroll". There's a mental/emotional reward for actually reaching The End of something.
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3. dasil003 ◴[23 Oct 25 22:45 UTC] No.45688370[source]▶
I wonder how much this is a factor of the widespread mental health malaise that is often attributed to tech these days? Certainly plenty of factors to go around, but consider the connotation of "scrolling" and how common it is a default replacement to boredom in modern life and suddenly it seems quite insidious.
4. dreadsword ◴[24 Oct 25 02:34 UTC] No.45690112[source]▶
Yes - I was actually deliberate about leaving infinite scroll out; I started w/ scrolling on tag pages, for example, but switched them to paginated - largely for the feeling you described.