About hn.today
Hacker News is the best tech front page on the internet. It is also a wall of blue links that tells you almost nothing about what you're about to open.
hn.today reads the same stories and adds the two things the original leaves out: a screenshot of the page a link actually goes to, and a two-to-three sentence summary of what it says. You can tell in seconds whether something is worth your time.
How it works
Stories are pulled from the Hacker News API continuously and ranked by points and comments. For each one worth covering, the linked page is fetched, a screenshot is captured, and a summary is generated from the article text. When an article can't be fetched, the Hacker News discussion is used instead.
Summaries are written by AI from the source article. They describe the piece; they don't review it, and they can be wrong the way any summary can be. The screenshot and the link are always there so you can check.
Sections and time windows
Stories are sorted into AI, Programming, Security and six other sections. Each page can be viewed as what's live on Hacker News right now, or the best of the last 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days.
The daily email
Once a day, the 24 stories worth knowing about go out as an email digest, in the same format. Past issues are in the archive.
Who makes it
hn.today is an independent side project, built and run by one person in Waterloo, Ontario. It is not affiliated with Hacker News or Y Combinator, and it doesn't republish their content. Every story links back to the source and to the original discussion.
Questions, corrections or complaints: get in touch.