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The internet's commentary track.

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   Lightstream▲349

   A powerful live streaming production studio in your browser.

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   Comment Mode▲151

   Watch YouTube videos and read comments at the same time

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4. 4
   Beseda Share▲316

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   re:Charged▲332

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   Tune by Google▲196

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   YouTube Community▲198

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   hackernews.roundtable.audio turns HN posts into live audio discussions▲109

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   A database of top ranking Hacker News front page posts

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    BigTube▲135

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    Subreply▲76

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    Stage Channels by Discord▲94

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    Telescope, a news reader app▲90

    I got fed up with the news reader apps out there so I decided to make my own. Its a simple concept where it tracks all your favorite news sources for new posts and the social shares it received. Then it ranks it HN/Reddit style using social shares as upvotes. It's not meant to be alternative to HN, just a focused way to track your favorite sources. Please try it out and let me know what do you think, http://telescope.surf/ Note: you can do 'Add to Homescreen' on mobile to make it as an app. Please leave a feedback or any feature wishlist you may have. Thanks!

    2017

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    Follow.net▲123

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    ChannelSync▲84

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    2011

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    IndexFlow▲114

    IndexFlow makes Discord threads searchable on the web.

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    Read Hacker News right from Slack

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    Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews▲119

    For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549 It works with comments, too: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253 Hastily-developed source: https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com

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    Hacker News Talk, a Chrome extension for real-time commentary▲48

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