[hawski]

There is http://n-gate.com/ if one wants a week's worth top stories with a bit of commentary.

[bringtheaction]

Their security check captcha doesn’t load for me.

[Kiro]

The comment explaining why is dead so I'm pasting it here:

"If you visit from HN, the site displays a webshit parody. Otherwise it's text only and loads very fast."