Ideas

Read the Hacker News front page on your Kindle

Today's front page as one issue, so the tab you keep refreshing becomes something you finish.

Set this up Try any plan free for 7 days.

Why on a schedule

The front page is a tab people refresh. Delivered once a morning it becomes something with an end: thirty stories, read through, finished.

Set a points threshold and the noise floor disappears with it.

What arrives

Each story with its title, score and a link to both the article and the comment thread.

Default schedule
07:00 every day, 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 front page sources
Source  
The whole front page
Thirty stories, every morning
Use this
100 points or more Use this
250 points, capped at 20 stories 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 07:00 every day, 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