Show HN: Curated News from Hacker News, Designer News, Product Hunt and 9 More

While I also started with aggregating only the top sites and so on, I found it quite "unpleaseant" that it lists all of the news-items in that way. I tried to make another ranking of the news and also tried to get more factors into the formula.

At the end there was a custom crawler, a special API using Solr and a custom Frontend [1] in two versions [2] which aggregates everything together.

I have also open-sourced the frontend [3][4]. If you have fun, have a look into that, but unfortunately the source-code diverged from the frontend Reader [1] a bit, because I started refactoring the db-schema and had not time to update my repositories yet. The second frontend [2] just happend because I was curious about the abilities of Foundation from Zurb. Works really well, btw. Also from your smartphone.

I plugged all of that into a machine learning algorithm too and let everything classify - online and in realtime. And renamed it to babbleaway, because the name "Newscombinator" was a bit too... well... fill in a word of your choice. The HN Community was not so pleased :)

In case there are questions, feel free to ask.

Merry Christmas. Tom

[1] http://reader.newscombinator.com/#/ [2] http://live.newscombinator.com [3] https://github.com/tomw1808/newscombinator [4] https://github.com/tomw1808/newscombinator-live

I would love to hear your thoughts! Do you like seeing posts from multiple websites in one feed?