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 Try any plan free for 7 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
Up to 10 built-in or custom sources per schedule on Plus from $6.99/mo

Start from one of these

Choose an example and the setup form is filled in for you.

Example Hacker News best sources
Source  
Everything in Best Use this
300 points or more 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
  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 one scheduled delivery with your other reading so it arrives as one issue.

Set this up See the plans