[HN Gopher] Show HN: Top Links from Hacker News, Reddit, Techmem...
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       Show HN: Top Links from Hacker News, Reddit, Techmeme, PH on a
       Single Page
        
       Hi HN, this is something I created for my personal use and I have
       been using it daily for a long time now. It's a page that shows top
       25 links from the sources mentioned in the title. Updates every 10
       minutes through a cron job and new links are always added to the
       top.  Some more details: It's using simple heuristics like minimum
       upvotes/comments to select the links. For techmeme, only the first
       headline on techmeme.com is considered a top link. For reddit,
       currently fetching content from only a select few subreddits.  It's
       just a simple page. No ad. No tracking. It's the first tab I open
       in the morning. Suggestions and feedback are welcome. :)
        
       Author : Zakuzaa
       Score  : 108 points
       Date   : 2022-05-30 09:05 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (alltoplinks.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (alltoplinks.com)
        
       | yoz-y wrote:
       | There really ought to be a filter there to ignore the most
       | mainstream subreddits. AskReddit's value is below zero. (same
       | questions and answers being posted over and over)
        
         | Night_Thastus wrote:
         | If it could integrate a blocklist like what Reddit Enhancement
         | Suite uses, then I'd definitely consider it. I've filtered
         | about 200 subreddits. That sounds like a lot, but there are a
         | ton of duplicate terrible meme/armchair politics/lazy content
         | subreddits worth hiding.
        
           | Fuzzwah wrote:
           | Is it possible for you to export your list so we can import
           | it?
        
           | xeromal wrote:
           | There should almost be a blocklist similar to how ublock
           | origin works. A maintained list of subreddits that are too
           | bloated for their own good.
        
           | robswc wrote:
           | The funny thing is, there was a time I thought reddit was
           | "much better" than the likes of youtube and twitter for
           | "serious topics" but over the past few years I've realized
           | its the same thing, just being drawn out several paragraphs,
           | lol.
        
       | 2b3a51 wrote:
       | Thank you for sharing this work. I've now bookmarked your page. A
       | few suggestions...
       | 
       | Date and time displayed on each link
       | 
       | Consider adding an RSS feed
       | 
       | Consider (real edge case here) adding a plain text alternative
       | with the origin Web site stated after each link (e.g. test using
       | links or w3m in a terminal)
        
       | pengstrom wrote:
       | Wow haven't been to reddit in ages, surprised it's so
       | (subjectively) bad. Has it gotten worse or was I a fool before?
       | It's cringeworthy
        
         | coffeeblack wrote:
         | Reddit actively removed any diversity. Somewhat like Tw.
        
         | jhickok wrote:
         | Reddit is nearly unusable out of box. Use it for smaller
         | specialized interests and it can be very valuable. I use it for
         | the baseball and hiking communities and I have a radically
         | different experience than I otherwise would going thru /all.
        
         | xigoi wrote:
         | Yes, Reddit is getting worse ever since it became mainstream
         | popular.
        
           | marginalia_nu wrote:
           | They've been pushing hard for growth as well, which I think
           | is probably the single most devastating thing to an online
           | community. There is some amount of growth that can be
           | tolerated while maintaining a sense of community and common
           | culture, but when the new members are pouring in by the
           | thousands every day, that is no longer possible. Most
           | participants will be strangers to each other.
           | 
           | What few subreddits have survived this are either incredibly
           | niche, or aggressively working to make new members lurk
           | before they post.
        
             | wmanley wrote:
             | I think "common culture" is precisely the problem with
             | reddit. Before reddit there were many different separate
             | forums. Each had to be signed up to separately and each had
             | their own culture. With reddit there's little barrier
             | between reddits, which has lead to a shared culture across
             | the whole site. The culture is generally friendly, but is
             | immature and superficial. It's great for small-talk, but
             | useless and frustrating if you actually want to learn
             | something.
             | 
             | Maybe I'm bitter, but I used to really enjoy r/rust up
             | until 2 years ago or so. Now it's completely inane and it's
             | no longer worth the time to sort through the noise to find
             | the signal.
        
               | marginalia_nu wrote:
               | Right, when I say common culture I mean culture common to
               | a specific subreddit. I don't think reddit as a whole has
               | a common culture. It's like a train station and not like
               | a village, everyone is always passing through.
        
           | swader999 wrote:
           | It feels different than just echo chamber, like it got taken
           | over by a top driven agenda to push the corporate/global
           | narratives the last three years.
        
         | laputan_machine wrote:
         | I think there are a few factors, but the biggest one I see is
         | it's now so popular that every large sub has become an
         | echochamber, you cannot disagree with the echochamber.
         | 
         | But, at the same time I think this has always been a problem,
         | even 10 years ago the 'Reddit Hivemind' was a thing people
         | spoke about. It's just worse now (because there are even more
         | people using it, more bots reposting the same clickbait, more
         | conglomeration of a few moderators owning several large subs)
        
           | 0des wrote:
           | HN has a hivemind too believe it or not.
           | 
           | Edit: would the hivemind care to stop upvoting this so I
           | could make my point here?
        
             | pokey00 wrote:
             | definitely, but I like to think most people here are more
             | self-aware or are less extreme about shouting down others.
             | the heavy-hivemind topics always have a couple of good
             | "woah there..." meta comments, and unlike reddit, they
             | don't get buried and disappeared for the most part.
        
         | hguant wrote:
         | Reddit had a big shift recently when they had their mobile
         | first redesign - it's made the website subjectively worse to HN
         | types...and has massively increased its appeal. That, combined
         | with the deep algorithmic shifts to the front page after the
         | 2016 election cycle (when every other post was either a "give
         | money to the Sanders Campaign" or "MAGA forever") has made it
         | more difficult for deeper or more esoteric content to rise to
         | the front page.
         | 
         | That being said, I find that Reddit is like Twitter - if you
         | take the time to curate and cultivate your subreddits, you can
         | have a very good experience there. The best of Reddit is the
         | small subreddits that fit your niche and your communities.
        
         | dt2m wrote:
         | It really started sucking after the redesign, IMO. But who can
         | blame them? What happened is the only outcome possible if your
         | business model is Web 2.0.
        
         | rjh29 wrote:
         | The frontpage is pretty bad. In my experience smaller
         | subreddits are still good quality. There's a reason why people
         | add 'reddit' to their search queries after all.
        
           | m12k wrote:
           | Yeah, public reddit is terrible, but make an account,
           | unsubscribe the default subreddits and subscribe to smaller
           | subreddits, and it can be awesome. A selection of subreddits
           | I can recommend (depending on your interests of course):
           | 
           | bodyweightfitness, breadit, dataisbeautiful, digitalnomad,
           | onebag, Ultralight, walkablecities, cozy_places,
           | artisanvideos, relationship_advice, bestof,
           | financialindependence, gamedev, gamedesign, HighQualityGifs,
           | museum, Pareidolia, programming, programmer_humor, space,
           | startups, SaaS, webdev, science
        
             | SxC97 wrote:
             | > walkablecities, cozy_places
             | 
             | I would also recommend r/raining for those cozy vibes!
        
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       | mkl wrote:
       | Similar but more for general news is https://sumi.news/, which
       | has more sites and groups the stories by site.
        
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       | coaltunbey wrote:
       | You might enjoy this one too: https://github.com/karakanb/devo
        
       | UmbertoNoEco wrote:
       | > Atheists of Reddit: What could change your mind?
       | 
       | Run away very fast.
       | 
       | > The good.
       | 
       | Minimalistic, no BS, titles can be read quickly.
       | 
       | > The not so good.
       | 
       | No date/times for the articles, some questionable site
       | choices,not visible way to customize the feed.
        
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       | 0des wrote:
        
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       | JetSpiegel wrote:
       | > No Tracking
       | 
       | And yet, loads 5 domains straight up: cloudflare, fotawesome,
       | hwcdn, jquery
        
       | webscout wrote:
       | https://biztoc.com & https://terminal.news for Business / Crypto
        
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       | mberning wrote:
       | I like it. I would change the reddit contribution to only look at
       | higher quality subs or just drop it. You have a generally decent
       | mix of content on your page peppered with the worst of the worst
       | from reddit.
        
         | marcusabu wrote:
         | First thing I noticed too. Filtering the sites would also be a
         | nice feature.
        
       | philonoist wrote:
       | Strangely similar to Guy Kawasaki's https://alltop.com/
       | 
       | https://guykawasaki.com/alltop-version/
        
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       | systemvoltage wrote:
       | The best there is IMO: https://skimfeed.com/
       | 
       | High density, compact and loads fast.
        
       | vesinisa wrote:
       | I like it. It loads really fast and there's nothing extra - just
       | AllTopLinks.com like it says on the can.
       | 
       | BTW Probably a stupid question but what is the site with the logo
       | that looks like a T with a hyphen/horizontal bar on top (T or
       | [?])?
        
         | pc86 wrote:
         | It looks like the logo for alltoplinks.com as it seems to be on
         | any site where they haven't created or don't already have a
         | logo matching their theme.
        
         | Zakuzaa wrote:
         | That T thing is for techmeme. That's the best icon I could find
         | on fontawesome that resembled techmeme's icon.
        
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       | atc wrote:
        
       | XCSme wrote:
       | Funny how you can usually know which site a link is from based on
       | how the title is worded.
       | 
       | > I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge - HN
       | 
       | > What's a sign of extremely low intelligence? - AskReddit
       | 
       | > Chinese government data shows domestic smartphone shipments
       | fell 30% YoY to ~86M units in the first four months of 2022 amid
       | the resurgence of COVID-19 in China - News/WSJ
        
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       | RISKIAWAN wrote:
       | hellow Hacker.. salam dari indonesia
        
       | Operyl wrote:
       | A suggestion: filtering out NSFW posts. There's an AskReddit NSFW
       | post at the bottom right now, haha. Or having a page where it's
       | filtered out, I think.
        
       | freediver wrote:
       | This has been around for a while and does the same thing (perhaps
       | even better)
       | 
       | https://news.t0.vc
        
         | Zakuzaa wrote:
         | Wow it's actually pretty good. Thanks.
        
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         | 2b3a51 wrote:
         | You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.
         | https://news.t0.vc/
         | 
         | OA does display the basic list of links when JavaScript is
         | disabled. Good luck to both projects.
        
       | sph wrote:
       | Took me a while to figure out which PH they refer to... it's
       | Product Hunt.
        
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         | nvr219 wrote:
         | thanks
        
         | 0des wrote:
         | Imagine me wondering what the point of knowing the pH of a
         | remote webserver was.
        
           | dspillett wrote:
           | Possible warning of signs that an alien has got in and is
           | bleeding over your racks?
        
         | onychomys wrote:
         | I was thinking that the top links from pornhub didn't really
         | fit with the rest.
        
       | sumthinprofound wrote:
       | I would subscribe via RSS if a feed was available.
        
         | Zakuzaa wrote:
         | Noted. I'll add that.
        
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       | firebaze wrote:
       | Nice, will bookmark this. Could you change the reddit-links to
       | point to old.reddit.com instead? Or would this break something
       | else?
        
       | blinding-streak wrote:
       | I expected something like the now defunct popurls.com, but this
       | is much nicer. Good work.
        
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