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patrickgzill on June 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty year...

Sounds like a weekend project - adapt trn style reading to something that scrapes HN and keeps track for the user of all those things... heck I would pay $5/month for such a webapp.

jacques_chester on June 6, 2011 [–]

I remember folk writing such apps for Slashdot.

Since 1997 we've known that HTTP+HTML is the worst way to achieve any task online. It is, however, the most popular.

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