RubenvanE

Some specs about the car:

- 31.5kWh

- 630kg

- 300km (186mi) range

This review explains the concept behind the car in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aTzuUrdyIc

The car starts at about €45k, about the same price as a Tesla Model 3!

Hi Alex,

Thank you for the feedback and #23 on a weekend day is very impressive!

I found there are a couple of those small improvements that make HN significantly easier and more pleasant to read. Good to hear that the red names are not too distracting!

The creator of https://hackerdaily.io here!

The reason for a timezone specific RSS feed is because, like the site itself, the RSS feed only updates once a day at midnight. And _when_ the day changes depends on the timezone. Therefore we created different RSS feeds, one for each time zone.

This happened in the sixties, during and after the six-day war between Israel and Egypt. Therefore I think a movie could be made out of this story any day now.

That’s a great idea! I’ll think about how to summarize this even further.

Thank you! I would love to hear from you on what could be improved.

Sorry, I put in the wrong URL, it should be working now!

I’m building some projects to slow the internet down.

1. A less addictive Hacker News (https://hackerdaily.io)

2. A brief overview of yesterday’s world events (https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com)

Yes, the 'Health and environment' section is quite overwhelming, mostly due to COVID-19. That's why I close each section initially, this way you open only the sections that interest you.

I modify the tree from Wikipedia slightly to get a less cluttered overview.[1]

[1] https://github.com/RubenVanEldik/a-brief-history-of-yesterda...

https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com

News in the digital age updates constantly. No matter what, there is always some "breaking news". This causes news sites to become more of a slot machine than a substantive source of information.

A Brief History of Yesterday tries to be an antidote. It uses Wikipedia to show a summary of what happened yesterday. It's no news anymore, the content is already gradually becoming history.

I started working on it last weekend. It is still in a pre-alpha state, but please let me know what you think of it!

Ok, I added a quick shortcut. You can now go to a specific date by just going to that page, for example, the page for exactly a month ago is https://hackerdaily.io/2020-11-29. My database goes back to roughly the start of October, so that's the furthest you can go back for now.

I haven't add anything to the UI for now. Do you have an idea how to add this nicely to the existing UI?

Great point! Let me see if I can quickly add this.

Do you mean a page to show all AskHN/ShowHN posts? Because it already shows all the posts (including AskHN/ShowHN) with more than 100 points.

It is indeed a hard problem. For Hacker News I've made the assumption that I can trust the HN community to find the best posts, so they're the filter. I only sort on the score of all posts in a single day and show the posts with a score of 100+.

Most posts with 100+ points are at least somewhat interesting and I only have to do the manual filtering to find the few posts I want to read once a day.

If you open a webpage you can share them via all the Safari sharing methods.

Thanks for the great feedback!

I just deployed a version with reduced margins between paragraphs in a comment and I'm gonna look into how to improve the comment metadata in a less obtrusive way.

Thanks for your feedback!

I indeed designed HackerDaily explicitly with smaller columns in mind. The reason for this is that it makes reading longer comments a lot easier. There has been quite a bit of research done to figure out what the optimal line length is and most sources come down to about 60-80 characters. With 80-90 characters on HackerDaily its already on the outer edge of the readability spectrum.

[1] https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability

Yes, it is based on /front, but it uses your local time to set the days, instead of UTC. The problem with /front is that the front page is always only 1 click away. I also created it to use (in my opinion) a better UI and UX, to add a dark mode, and to make it a PWA.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25568695

Not a dumb question at all!

To keep the site as lightweight as possible, I only use CSS to enable dakr mode. This is done by using prefers-color-scheme.[1] So you can only enable dark mode by enabling it either on your computer/phone on in your browser.

Please let me know if you've any more questions! :)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

Thank you for your honest feedback!

I quickly added a page with a darker background[1], is this more readable? If not I might need to increase the spacing between the items.

[1] https://hackerdaily.io/darker

Thank you!

I am currently looking into how to generate an RSS feed. I personally don't use RSS, so I am not sure how you would like to have it be implemented, I have two questions:

1. Do you want all articles on HackerDaily added to your RSS feed? (HackerDaily only shows the articles with 100+ points, so that's about 30-50 articles per day)

2. HackerDaily uses your local timezone to find the articles per day, would you like to have this for the RSS feed as well, or is based on UTC also okay?

Thank you for your kind words!

Dark mode is set using only CSS, by using prefers-color-scheme.[1] So if you've enabled dark mode on your computer/phone, the website should automatically turn dark.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

Yes, it is based on /front, but it uses your local time to set the days, instead of UTC. The problem with /front is that the front page is always only 1 click away.

I also created it to use (in my opinion) a better UI and UX, to add a dark mode, and to make it a PWA.

Thank you! This was exactly my intention when I created it. :)

Hi everyone!

I love Hacker News, the problem is that, like all social platforms, it easily becomes a slot machine. Every time you look there is a new post or comment!

HackerDaily is built to alleviate this problem as well as a few others:

- The posts are grouped per day, starting from yesterday. So you never miss the best posts

- It has an improved collapsing comment system

- It’s a PWA, so you can install it to your homescreen and use it as an app

- It has a dark mode

- It's open source[1]

I would love to hear what you think about it!

[1] https://hackerdaily.io/opensource

That is correct. HackerDaily only shows posts with a score of a hundred and higher. The posts are ranked by score, so you only see the best posts per day.

Hi everyone!

I love Hacker News, the problem is that, like all social platforms, it easily becomes a slot machine. Every time you look there is a new post or comment!

HackerDaily is built to alleviate this problem as well as a few others:

- The posts are grouped per day, starting from yesterday. So you never miss the best posts

- The articles are readable on the site itself. No more loading of multi-MB webpages just to read a simple article

- It has an improved collapsing comment system

- It’s a PWA, so you can install it to your homescreen and use it as an app

- It has a dark mode

- It's open source[1]

I would love to hear what you think about it!

[1] https://hackerdaily.io/opensource

Hi everyone!

I love Hacker News, the problem is that, like all social platforms, it easily becomes a slot machine. Every time you look there is a new post or comment!

HackerDaily is built to alleviate this problem as well as a few others:

- The posts are grouped per day, starting from yesterday. So you never miss that one great article, video, or paper!

- The articles are readable on the site itself. No more loading of multi-MB webpages just to read a simple article.

- It has an improved collapsing comment system

- It’s a PWA, so you can install it to your homescreen and use it as an app

- It has a dark mode

- It's open source[1]

I would love to hear what you think about it!

[1] https://hackerdaily.io/opensource

Hi Hacker News!

This summer I wanted to learn some new technologies, in particular Postgres, Hasura and Tailwind. To learn these technologies in a fun way I made HackerDaily. It’s a way to read Hacker News in a more informative and less addictive way.

I love the articles and conversations on Hacker News, the articles shared are enlightening and the conversations often add insight and nuance to the articles. Despite many HN users complaining that “it isn’t what it used to be” I think its still an awesome resource and one of the most civil communities on the internet. The problem is that (like all social platforms) it easily becomes too much of a slot machine. I think there are two main reasons. Firstly, it's the constantly changing website: every few minutes the front page changes. Secondly, it's easier to just read the comments than the articles themselves, since the articles are on a (often unknown) website that takes time to load; it also takes time to orient yourself with a new design before you can start reading the article itself.

HackerDaily is built to alleviate these problems as well as a few others:

- The posts are grouped per day, starting from yesterday. So, the posts on the front page get updated once a day (at midnight, your local time) and they are sorted by their score (only posts with a score above a hundred are shown).

- The articles are readable in an outline.com style so you don’t have to load a whole new webpage to read an article (and get the usual spam, pop-ups, and cookies). The webpages from which an article could be extracted are marked by the book icon in front of the title

- It has an improved collapsing comment system

- It’s a PWA, so you can install it to your homescreen and use it as an app

- It has a dark mode

- It's open source[1]

Maybe some of you can also find value in it. Any feedback is appreciated!

[1] https://hackerdaily.io/opensource