[thesoonerdev]

SkimHN is a desktop application to skim hacker news articles and decide if you want to read an article fully

https://github.com/mcaravind/HackerNewsSummary

It even has a cheesy 'Time saved' feature to help you see how much time you might have saved by not reading the full comment thread :-) Not sure how useful it actually is, but it was a lot of fun to develop. I used C#, edge.js, ideas from natural language processing, tree algorithms etc.

Unfortunately it only works on Win 64 right now (although I built it with node-webkit so making it cross platform desktop app should be feasible in the future)