Ask HN: Quiethn.com is down, what's the best low-UI alternative HN reader?

Posted by chr15m on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:06PM
from the ask-hn dept.

The title says it all really. What are some other lightweight HN reader apps out there?

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Re:Ask HN: Quiethn.com is down, what's the best low-UI alter... by gabrielsroka on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:34PM (#24057035)

I wrote my own using the official HN API. It's about 100 lines of JavaScript. It keeps track (using localStorage) of which articles I've already seen, so I won't see them again. https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hn.html

Source is also on GitHub. Feel free to fork, open a PR, etc. https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...

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Re:Ask HN: Quiethn.com is down, what's the best low-UI alter... by tomspeak on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:07AM (#24069595)

Hey, I made the site, didn't realise people actually used it.

https://github.com/tomspeak/quiet-hacker-news -- the source is here, you could host your own version or run it locally on demand.

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Re:Ask HN: Quiethn.com is down, what's the best low-UI alter... by gef on Saturday August 15, 2020 @06:53PM (#24173138)

Thank you! I've been missing this site. It's been one of my top five visits for the last couple of years.

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Re:Ask HN: Quiethn.com is down, what's the best low-UI alter... by gitgud on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:23PM (#24055571)

Just curious how news.ycombinator.com isn't sufficient?

It's probably the lightest-weight site I know of...

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Re:Ask HN: Quiethn.com is down, what's the best low-UI alter... by 60secz on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:38PM (#24055263)

How about a user script? https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/hacker-news-watc...

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Re:Ask HN: Quiethn.com is down, what's the best low-UI alter... by karmakaze on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:10PM (#24056911)

I made/use https://hackerer.news (click heading to switch story lists)

It's not at all quiet--no audio but has dense text.

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Re:Ask HN: Quiethn.com is down, what's the best low-UI alter... by Jugurtha on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @12:21PM (#24062556)

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

You can set up your mail client to read that feed.

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Re:Ask HN: Quiethn.com is down, what's the best low-UI alter... by redeuxx on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @02:12PM (#24063777)

I use the RSS feeds here ...

https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

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