[amelius]

Why not just sort the topics of the last n hours by some criterion? Then you can choose how many stories you read depending on the amount of time you have.

The criterion could be simple (e.g. amount of upvotes), or it could be based on personal interests (e.g. collaborative filtering).

[jventura]

Something like https://hn.algolia.com?

[rayascott]

This is what I use. It's such a useful tool. I'm surprised Ycominator don't add it as a feature.

Most popular over the last 24 hours? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...

[tim333]

I guess YC like to support Algolia as it's a YC company https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14514389

[amelius]

Yes, although it's still missing the personalization (collaborative filtering) part.