A simple, fast, and accessible Hacker News top stories reader.
- Shows the top 25 links from Hacker News
- Opens stories in Instapaper (free and great for reading stories on both mobile and desktop)
- Supports keyboard navigation
- Shows clearly which stories you've already read
- Accessible to screen readers and people with low-vision
- Gets refreshed every ~5 minutes
- Runs over HTTPS
Stories open in Instapaper and look something like this:
- It’s free – Create an account.
- It comes with a great reading experience: large text (useful when reading while walking), good typography settings, night mode…
- It provides a cross-device “Read Later” functionality (very useful when an article is interesting but will require your full attention later).
- A lot of stories posted on Hacker News aren’t optimized for mobile, are slow, and come with a lot of ads. Instpaper strips that out and only keeps the content. It’s faster, works on mobile, and is less tiring since all articles look the same.
- Browsing read.hn & Instapaper feels like a unified experience when your Instapaper settings look like this:
Note: you can still access the original stories by clicking the domain name below each story title.
- ↓ ↑ next / previous story
- ⏎ read story on Instapaper (more accessible and readable than most sites)
- alt + ⏎ read story on original site
- c open the comments
If you’d like to suggest a change or adding a feature, it is recommended to open a GitHub issue and discuss it beforehand.
- Create a fork of this repository
- Clone the repository on your machine
cdinto the directory- run
yarn install - run
yarn run dev
Commit your changes in a clear an concise manner, then push your changes and open a pull request.
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