Hacker News Reader

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lopespm

The (best) stories are fetched via the Hacker News API:

- API call documentation: https://github.com/HackerNews/API#new-top-and-best-stories

- Code pointer: https://github.com/lopespm/hackernews-daily/blob/main/hnsour...

- This is equivalent to https://news.ycombinator.com/best

On a given new day, stories that appear in previous days are filtered out. The top most stories are prioritized

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So it is basically a different UI for /best ?

Apart from the different view you mentioned (added screenshot and top comments), I believe the other more subtle difference/advantage is that it picks up the most relevant stories on any given day, and filters out the others from previous days.

My experience around this is that when I check the latest "daily", I know from which day I can start reading, and all the stories starting from there will be new to me. Otherwise, checking the "best" stories, say, every day, I would have the added effort of filtering out the ones I've already seen.

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