Show HN: Weekly summary of HN to help fight procrastination

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4 years ago

Lately, I've realized I'm spending a lot of time on HN. I've also realized that my brain uses it as a some sort of "escape" route: whenever I'm dealing with something complicated, my brain defaults to Cmd+T + "news..".

So I've decided that I need to stop continuously browsing HN. BUT, I still don't want to miss the relevant news, events and discussions.

That's why I've built this very simple, statically generated summary of HN posts (by year, month and week): https://hn-summary.github.io/

I think it's also a good way to filter the noise and only focus on those relevant posts that had a considerable impact on their given week.

I've also grouped the submissions on different (and arbitrary) groups that I consider relevant (for example: News, Dev Blogs, Scientific News, etc). Feel free to suggest changes/additions (it's all in a json file within the repo).

I guess the only thing left is block news.ycombinator.com on my /etc/hosts :)

[Source] https://github.com/hn-summary/hn-summary.github.io

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