[yorwba]

I like your site. It's not busy with distractions and works flawlessly without JS.

Unfortunately, my opinion is probably irrelevant, because I'm not a potential user. I'm simply not that interested in news (yes, I realize the irony of saying that on Hacker News) and looking at your headlines confirmed to me that I'm not really missing anything.

I do have an suggestion for your "In the News" sidebar: some entries (e.g. "U.S" and "President Trump") are likely to be there constantly. Maybe it would be more informative if you adjust for topics that are mentioned unusually frequently compared to their base rate. Additionally, that list begs for each item to link to a list of relevant stories.

Oh, and the link to your engineering blog's RSS feed in the announcement post needs an initial / to make it root-relative.

[3into10power5]

Can you tell what you use to source the news articles? Any API or just scraping? Cool site otherwise. May be you want to add personalization based on persons interests/needs etc.

[bruce_lipshitz]

> Can you tell what you use to source the news articles? Any API or just scraping?

We use a mix of approaches but we don't scrape web pages, we're quite scrupulous about that.

> May be you want to add personalization based on persons interests/needs etc.

We've been thinking about personalization. Can you tell us in more detail what you're thinking?

[bruce_lipshitz]

> I like your site. It's not busy with distractions and works flawlessly without JS. Thank you! We've been watching recent website design trends with something approaching horror. (See this excellent discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18284910) We decided that our website would reflect our belief that HTML should be rendered on the server side and CSS should be used to make it look pretty; JS strictly for

> Unfortunately, my opinion is probably irrelevant, because I'm not a potential user. I'm simply not that interested in news (yes, I realize the irony of saying that on Hacker News) and looking at your headlines confirmed to me that I'm not really missing anything. You're not alone. Many people have had this reaction.

> I do have an suggestion for your "In the News" sidebar: some entries (e.g. "U.S" and "President Trump") are likely to be there constantly. Yes, President Trump does stay have a tendency to stay in the headlines constantly. Last week's issue of The Economist concluded that his disruptive approach is working well abroad and that "unpredictability has some advantages". https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/10/27/trump-is-... The New York Times concluded 2 days ago that "the president has sought to seize the national stage in the last stretch of the [mid-terms] campaign". https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/us/politics/midterm-elect...

> Maybe it would be more informative if you adjust for topics that are mentioned unusually frequently compared to their base rate. That's a really good idea. Let me chew over it and see how it pans out.

> Additionally, that list begs for each item to link to a list of relevant stories. Ah, you've guessed at what we're working on right now! That's right, we're working on search results for news archives, with stories ranked by relevance and displayed in a reverse chronological timeline. We're aiming to make search fast and scalable using the free text search capabilities of Postgres 11 but if anyone wants to point us towards a better approach, we would welcome it.

> Oh, and the link to your engineering blog's RSS feed in the announcement post needs an initial / to make it root-relative. Thank you for pointing that out. It's fixed now https://www.newshound.co/blog/20181101/under-hood-newshounds... and the feed URL is the correct one: https://www.newshound.co/blog/engineering/feed. We hope you subscribe!