In timeline mode, it's just a pure top 10/20/50/100 stories by points (or comments, if chosen) for each day (in your time zone). The stories are presented in chronological order in which they were submitted (top is newest).

The timeline view can get wonky when it's like 12AM-2AM when there are relatively few stories in "today".

  Misc:
  1) it doesn't filter out flagged stories
  2) second-chance pooled items, should they rise in ranks, will be shown on the day the item was originally submitted, not the day it got popular.

I may do to a "rising" type of view but I'm curious about what others want to see first.

Thanks for keeping the HN API open for these alternative UIs.