A few technical notes for those curious about how it works:
For HN stories, ranking is left untouched. HN’s algorithm works well, why mess with it?
Each story runs through multi-label categorization so a single story can appear in multiple relevant categories simultaneously. The Hot tab uses a round-robin blend, so all sources have a chance to be seen, regardless of volume.
The CVE enrichment is something I’m particularly happy with. Any story containing a CVE ID triggers an NVD lookup that attaches the CVSS severity score. Useful for the security folks in the room.
Also, stories linking to known paywalled domains are tagged upfront so you know before you click.
Free tier is the top 60 stories, no login needed. First login starts a free Pro trial with everything unlocked, no credit card required.
How do you feel about the Hot category? I went through several iterations trying to get it right and would love to know if the format works for you.
Thank you for the feedback. It’s a fair point about feeling like it’s mostly based on HN. I started it thinking it would be cool to have a Digg style HN feed. I remember how alive Digg felt in a static web world. I quickly realized as I broke the feed down by categories there wasn’t much content in some areas and started adding feeds that could bring in more articles I liked. The challenge is not to bring in too much where the site just becomes overwhelming. Brutalist is a good example. It’s has a huge list of great sources, but my brain turns off as soon as the scroll bar never ends. Currently,
I’m pulling from HN, Algolia, Product Hunt, and arXiv. Appreciate your point about comments. I do agree it’s not ideal, and I’ve been tossing around what the right path is. Thanks for the reply!
I’ve updated the RNKFlow.com filter to use a comma separated list of terms. Using a negative term will filter out stories you don’t want to see. If you sign in, you can save a default filter list and I’ve made it part of the free tier. Hope this helps a bit.
I would agree. While not quite what you’re looking for, I recently built a site, RNKFlow.com (Rank Flow), to bring in multiple tech/science feeds including HN and Product Hunt to pull in more interesting posts. There is a filter option so can search across all feeds and only see what you’re interested in. Also an alerting function where you can add keyword tags and get an email digest. And Categories to limit posts only Robotics or Show HN/PH as an example. So not quite what you’re going after, but maybe a better overall experience for you.
I too have one sitting on my desk, 486DX2 66Mhz. I've had it for probably 25 years now, bringing it from job to job like the magical lost artifact it is. I remember how much more capable it was for playing Doom and Descent than the 33Mhz, or heaven forbid the SX. Of course shortly after the Pentium came out and blew everything away. The good 'ol days of giant Gateway 2000 towers.
For HN stories, ranking is left untouched. HN’s algorithm works well, why mess with it?
Each story runs through multi-label categorization so a single story can appear in multiple relevant categories simultaneously. The Hot tab uses a round-robin blend, so all sources have a chance to be seen, regardless of volume.
The CVE enrichment is something I’m particularly happy with. Any story containing a CVE ID triggers an NVD lookup that attaches the CVSS severity score. Useful for the security folks in the room.
Also, stories linking to known paywalled domains are tagged upfront so you know before you click.
Free tier is the top 60 stories, no login needed. First login starts a free Pro trial with everything unlocked, no credit card required.
How do you feel about the Hot category? I went through several iterations trying to get it right and would love to know if the format works for you.