Talkfast
talkfast.org · Group blog · on HN since 2011
Talkfast, a blog tied to a Hacker News-adjacent startup community, covers HN filtering feeds, Twitter lists, angel investing, and startup mistakes.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for its HN300 and HN500 feeds that filter by upvotes and its list of Twitter users followed by HN readers.
22HN people shared it
14linked it in comments
12stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1A Cure For Hacker News Overload, Updated: HN300 and HN500 feeds now live13 people · 6 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 2Twitter Users Most Followed by Readers of Hacker News4 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3Early Startup Time Wasters1 people · 152 points · first shared 2012 · 42 comments on HN
- 4Algorithmic Trading is Not High Frequency Trading1 people · 140 points · first shared 2011 · 83 comments on HN
- 5Engineering Teams on Twitter1 people · 21 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 6Angel Investing Mistakes1 people · 7 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 7A Simulation of Angel Investing1 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 8Traction Role Models1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 9Early Startup Time Wasters1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10Great Team, Great Product, Great Space1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11Angel investing simulation part 21 people · first shared 2011
What HN people wrote when they linked it
jnazario · 2013-05-29
neat, and a nice clean demo of django.
myself, i wrote a HN clone one afternoon (when HN was down for several hours) using flask. since i'm the only user, i feed it with twitter. what i did was set up a twitter account - @hacktweetnews - and have it follow most of the top twitter users from the HN community [1] and then score it reddit-like. no votes aside from what people post as duplicates, no comments - so it definitely lacks the full features you have, but then again it's just me. however, like your django example, it was super easy to set up in a framework. yours is definitely far more feature-filled!
1. http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-by-readers-…
gasull · 2012-12-03
> I've started outgrowing Hacker News
For those who feel that are outgrowing HN, I'd recommend reading only those posts with more that 150 upvotes:
http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload/
itsprofitbaron · 2012-11-24
Here's a list of 55 users by Micrypt of some of the people who have been in/visit #startups/HackerNews:
https://twitter.com/micrypt/startups-freenode/members
There's also a list of Twitter users who are most followed by the HackerNews Community here:
http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-by-readers-…
DanielRibeiro · 2011-10-17
Edit: Thanks for reporting Alex! I was missing 3 other users from the leadersboard. Should be all good now.
Hi Alex. I am sorry you were not listed. My first user sources were hnsearch[1][2] and on Twitter Users Most Followed by Readers of Hacker News[3].
I am adding the leader's list to the user discovery, and this should be solved shortly.
[1] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter&sortby=…
[2] http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=twitter.com&sor…
[3] http://talkfast.org/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-by-readers-…
eneveu · 2011-07-22
Great event, awesome host and lots of good / original ideas for a meetup. I'm used to technology meetups with pre-planned presentations, but the top-10 / buzzwords "improvised" discussions were actually really cool.
As a bonus point, I got to practice my English. Still need to get rid of my french accent, though...
EDIT:
I forgot to add the two links I talked about, in case you were interested but didn't write them down:
- http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload --> HN RSS and Twitter feeds
- http://html5slides.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/template/index.html / http://code.google.com/p/html5slides/ --> Google's HTML slide templates (relatively similar to those used at Google I/O 2011)
ColinWright · 2013-10-08
The web site is unreadable on a Blackberry (not that that matters much).
What's wrong with just subscribing to the twitter feeds?
See @newsyc20, @newsyc50, @newsyc150.
See also: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload/
squidi · 2013-10-08
In case anyone is not aware of it, Jeff Miller has created twitter and RSS feeds which also provide the same info (albeit without push): http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload/
chrisbolt · 2013-03-14
I long ago switched to the Hacker News 100 feed: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload/
cpeterso · 2012-04-19
Relevant to my interests, "Hacker News Overload" publishes RSS feeds of HN articles at various score thresholds (20, 50, 100, 150):
http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload
donniezazen · 2012-02-19
I read all posts that reach 100 karma points.
http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload
Ideka · 2012-01-18
Well, some people use stuff like these http://mashable.com/2010/12/01/improve-hacker-news-ui/ or these http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload
secretasiandan · 2011-10-25
Assuming you know what you're doing or have a sense for what you believe the payout profile to be like, here's some metrics of the payout for N deals.
If you're at all risk averse, you probably want a percentile more like the 10th percentile payout, but this shows 50th percentile.
http://talkfast.org/2010/04/28/angel-investing-simulation-part-2
tvorryn · 2011-06-26
I believe this is the link you're looking for: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overload
It has rss feeds and twitter accounts for stories that get 20, 50, 100, or 150 points or more.