Weekly summary of HN to help fight procrastination
Lately, I've realized I'm spending a lot of time on HN. I've also realized that my brain uses it as a some sort of "escape" route: whenever I'm dealing with something complicated, my brain defaults to Cmd+T + "news..". So I've decided that I need to stop continuously browsing HN. BUT, I still don't want to miss the relevant news, events and discussions. That's why I've built this very simple, statically generated summary of HN posts (by year, month and week): https://hn-summary.github.io/ I think it's also a good way to filter the noise and only focus on those relevant posts…
Weekly summary of HN to help fight procrastination launched on January 2, 2022 with 10 votes, #1,143 of 2,891 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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This tool provides weekly summaries of Hacker News posts organized by year, month, and week, designed to help users reduce compulsive browsing while staying informed. Posts are filtered by relevance and grouped into categories like news, dev blogs, and scientific discussions. The statically generated summaries are available on GitHub, making it easy to scan high-impact stories without the time-consuming nature of continuous browsing. Users can suggest category changes through the repository.
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Lately, I've realized I'm spending a lot of time on HN. I've also realized that my brain uses it as a some sort of "escape" route: whenever I'm dealing with something complicated, my brain defaults to Cmd+T + "news..". So I've decided that I need to stop continuously browsing HN. BUT, I still don't want to miss the…
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