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Life & fun · April 29, 2013

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Automated post to HN at the perfect time

Hello! I’ve been reading Hacker News for years and have a bad habit of favoriting articles but never actually going back to read them. I finally built hnbuffer to scratch my own itch and help me work through that backlog. I also mainly built this as an excuse to learn/use some of the languages/frameworks/tools since I have another backlog of things I wanted to try too. It syncs your favorites into a queue with a reader mode and swipe gestures. The streak tracking is something I'm still experimenting with. Note: It requires an HN login to scrape the favorites list (credentials…

Automated post to HN at the perfect time launched on April 29, 2013 with 15 votes, #101 of 528 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

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HNBuffer is a tool for Hacker News readers who accumulate unread favorites. It syncs a user's HN favorites into a readable queue with swipe gestures for navigation and includes experimental streak tracking to encourage consistent reading. The app requires HN login credentials to pull the favorites list, which are kept client-side only. It targets people looking to work through their backlog of saved articles in a more structured way.

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Hello! I’ve been reading Hacker News for years and have a bad habit of favoriting articles but never actually going back to read them. I finally built hnbuffer to scratch my own itch and help me work through that backlog. I also mainly built this as an excuse to learn/use some of the…

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