Ideas

Read Hacker News Best on your Kindle

The threads that actually held up, collected weekly — the long-read version of Hacker News.

Set this up Free for 14 days.

Why on a schedule

"Best" is the slow list — the threads that held up after the day they were posted. It moves at a weekly pace, so it should arrive at a weekly pace.

This is the long-read version of Hacker News: one Saturday-morning issue instead of seven days of scrolling.

What arrives

The week that survived, with scores and links to the discussion.

Default schedule
08:00 every Saturday, in your own time zone
Format
EPUB with a contents page
Plan
Both plans — 50 sources on Standard from $3.99/mo, unlimited on Pro

Start from one of these

Each one is a real feed URL. Follow the link and it is filled in for you.

Example Hacker News best sources
Source Feed URL  
Everything in Best https://hnrss.org/best?count=30 Use this
300 points or more https://hnrss.org/best?count=30&points=300 Use this

Setting it up

  1. Paste your Kindle email

    It ends in @kindle.com. Where to find it →

  2. Approve our address on Amazon

    Once, so Amazon lets our documents onto your Kindle. Where →

  3. Add the source

    Everything else has a sensible default you can change later.

    • Minimum points (optional) — for example 100
    • Stories per poll (optional) — for example 30
  4. Pick when it should arrive

    The default for this source is 08:00 every saturday, evaluated in your own time zone — including across a clock change. Or collect it into a digest with your other reading so it arrives as one issue.

Set this up See the plans

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