HN Recap - Daily, ranked list of articles that hit the front page

In plain words

HN Recap aggregates articles from Hacker News' front page and ranks them based on their position over time. Updated every two minutes, the site assigns points to articles—30 for the top spot, descending from there—to preserve ranking information that standard RSS feeds lose. It's designed for people who can't monitor Hacker News constantly but want to catch important discussions and content without missing ranked context.

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In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey guys, I just flicked the switch on http://hnrecap.com and thought I would make a tiny announcement! The site was created for a simple reason: There is a big rotation of articles on the front page of Hacker News every day, and unless you are on here 24/7, you are bound to miss some great content and discussions. I…

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  Visit the front page of Hacker News on a random day2024 · randomhackernews.com · ▲267

  Hi HN. I was surprised that there wasn't a feature here that lets you go back in time to the front page of Hacker News on a random day...so I made one. http://randomhackernews.com is a simple HTML page that navigates you to the front page of HN on a random day between today and February 19, 2007 (the oldest date I could find with content). I made this for myself, but figured others may find some interest in it.

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  HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts26d ago · hn.watch · ▲225

  The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.

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  Hacker News Outliers2024 · hn.moritz.pm · ▲147

  I made a little website with a server that collects only HN submissions with > 500 upvotes chronologically. https://hn.moritz.pm/ It's quite simple because I wanted to learn from the project. But I think it's useful, to get a summary of what was important over the last days. The UI is almost identical to the HN frontpage, you can click on the comments to view the thread and on the username to see the profile. The rest of the cards takes you to the submitted URL.

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  Daily non-commercial blog posts which didn't reach HN's front page2020 · hnblogs.substack.com · ▲289

  Curated daily list of blog posts posted on Hacker News. Click to read HackerNews blogs newsletter, by Paul, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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  hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page2025 · hcker.news · ▲180

  Hi folks, I've built an alternative Hacker News front page. It is inspired by and meant to be a replacement for hckrnews.com. I built this because HN is woefully underfeatured, but most sites that try to improve it seem to assume that the visual design is the problem. hcker.news tries to maintain HN's familiarity while adding useful enhancements. There are three primary views: - Timeline View: Browse top stories by votes or comments grouped by day, week, or month (e.g., top 20 per day, top 100 per week). - Aggregate View: See top stories by votes or comments over custom time ranges. - Front…

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  Find Hidden Gems on HN2025 · pj4533.com · ▲118

  Hey HN. I created this website. https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/ It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this. I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R ). But I…

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  WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement▲287

  wallhop is a free paywall bypass. Paste any article link to read it without paywall popups, ads or clutter. No signup, no extension. A simple 12ft.io alternative.

  Growth · 13d ago · wallhop.io

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  Prefer▲201

  The execution layer for AEO

  Growth · 25d ago · tryprefer.com

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  MakerMap▲197

  A living map of makers and what they’re building

  Growth · 28d ago · makermap.lol

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  didtheywinornot.com Single Purpose Scores Site▲33

  I built didtheywinornot.com this week in my spare hours before work. Currently it only does baseball scores, but as new seasons start in the fall, I think I'll expand it to other sports. Would love some feedback and any ideas as to how to make it better, keeping in mind that this is meant to be single purpose and not at all bloated. Did I miss a stat that people really care about? Is the amount of information good enough?

  Life & fun · 2010

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  Talking to your customers made easy.▲24

  Dear Hackers and founders, I am working on a startup which aims to make customer development easier, faster and perhaps lazier. We all know how important it is to talk to customers, GainGeek (http://gaingeek.com) makes this process easier. My hope is that this app will resonate with all those following Eric Ries's Lean startup and Steve Blank's customer development strategy. I thought it would be a great idea to submit my idea to the eyes of the most critical crowd I know. Please let me know what you think. Cheers, Edo. PS: Some will note that this app could be intrusive. My bet is that the…

  Life & fun · 2010 · gaingeek.com

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  I made this search engine for Reddit using Bing+Reddit API.▲16

  Dev tools · 2010 · ftfysearch.com

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  maskedmail: craigslist style email anonymizer web service▲16

  Life & fun · 2010 · maskedmail.net

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  Hacker News like site for South Africa: ZA-Coders▲12

  Life & fun · 2010 · zacoders.net

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  My notes from the Web 2.0 Expo▲8

  http://web2expo.heroku.com/ I had the opportunity to attend the Web 2.0 Expo earlier this week. While at the event, I was inspired to build out a prototype for a problem I saw with the Twitter stream. The problem is that hash tags are fleeting; Twitter focuses on live results, and we lose track of tweets over time. This was especially true during the Lean Startup Intensive. #leanstartup was great when it was live on Monday, with the results consisting of live tweets of each presenter. However, if we search for the hash tag now, we get a mess of content not specifically tied to that event.…

  Growth · 2010 · web2expo.heroku.com