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A simple and fast Hacker News Top Stories reader – using Instapaper

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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

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Why do stories open in Instapaper?

Stories open in Instapaper and look something like this:

A Great Story in Instapaper

Why use Instapaper?

  1. It’s free – Create an account.
  2. It comes with a great reading experience: large text (useful when reading while walking), good typography settings, night mode…
  3. It provides a cross-device “Read Later” functionality (very useful when an article is interesting but will require your full attention later).
  4. 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.
  5. Browsing read.hn & Instapaper feels like a unified experience when your Instapaper settings look like this:

Instapaper Settings

Note: you can still access the original stories by clicking the domain name below each story title.


Keyboard navigation

  • next / previous story
  • read story on Instapaper (more accessible and readable than most sites)
  • alt + read story on original site
  • c open the comments

Contributing

Discuss changes in an issue

If you’d like to suggest a change or adding a feature, it is recommended to open a GitHub issue and discuss it beforehand.

Run the project locally

  1. Create a fork of this repository
  2. Clone the repository on your machine
  3. cd into the directory
  4. run yarn install
  5. run yarn run dev

Make changes, open a pull request

Commit your changes in a clear an concise manner, then push your changes and open a pull request.


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