Show HN: Ken, Curation of best programming news on the Internet

[cnlwsu]

Is the rendering of the story in this site really fair to the people who wrote the article? kinda denies them the ad revenue.

[rm445]

Is it scraping, or just presenting the data from a feed?

[dethstar]

They wouldn't get ad revenue from me anyway

[dysoco]

Curation of best web programming news on the internet*

Seriously, where are the C and C++ articles? Functional programming? Computer Science? Not everyone is a rails/js ninja.

[danpalmer]

That's the first thing I noticed.

I wonder if articles appear in multiple categories, after all, if this is about programming specifically, then most Android articles should really be in Java as well, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

[tomphoolery]

Where do you get the idea that there are Rails articles here? ;)

I only see JS, Java and PHP.

[larksimian]

Initial load seems to be really slow. Takes 5-10 seconds the first time I load the site, though afterwards navigation is snappy.

Serving a cached list of articles immediately and updating it after the initial load has happened would make for a better experience than spending a lot of time staring at "Loading...".

Minor gripe with navigation is that the previous list of articles doesn't get cleared when I click on a different category. The experience is: I am looking at the Node.js article list. I click on PHP. I see "Loading..." show up at the top of the Node.js article list. Then "Loading..." disappears from the top of the Node.js article list. Then the Node.js article list is replaced with the PHP article list.

It would be clearer to me that the site is functioning well and realizes I clicked a button if the Node.js article list disappears as soon as I click the PHP link. It can then be replaced with a blank "Loading..." page or, as mentioned above, a cached list of PHP articles and an "Updating..." notification.

Do you plan on taking it in a reddit/HN-like direction with local comments/voting?

A programming news aggregator with better categorization than HN and less noise/navigation effort than the myriad subreddits would be a great tool.

e. also Chrome PageSpeed says you should compress your assets, though that doesn't seem to have much to do with the speed issues, since the hangup is loading the article list, not the app itself.

[vjoel]

> A programming news aggregator with better categorization than HN and less noise/navigation effort than the myriad subreddits would be a great tool.

lobste.rs has tags and high signal/noise; but it's very quiet.

[mlakkadshaw]

Thanks, I will make these changes, it was something I build during the evening in a couple of hours, so it has lot of issues. I will fix it, and if you guys what a voting option, I will add that too.

[danpalmer]

The categories imply that this is very much curated for the creator of the site.

Android, but no iOS? Java but no C/C++? No Ruby? No functional languages at all? No computer science?

[mlakkadshaw]

Sorry right now I have added a lot of stuff but I plan to add c/c++, iOS and Ruby today.

[ollysb]

Planning on adding ruby?

[yeabuddy]

+1

[mlakkadshaw]

done

[alxjrvs]

+1

[pgsch]

+1

[MichaelTieso]

As a blogger myself, I really dislike sites that scrape content like this.

[missingdigit]

Very nice aggregation.

Interface is super clean, but lacking in helpful info IMO. Would like to see publication dates and urls (or at least domains) along with the article titles. Would also be nice to provide the "View on site" link next to the article titles instead of at the top of articles so user doesn't have to load the same content twice if they choose to view the content from the source website.

[mlakkadshaw]

Thanks, I will make these changes.

[rhgraysonii]

Loading slow, but I really like the concept and simple UI. You should add a Ruby section. Maybe throw in Lisp too just so there can be a fun forum to discuss it even though its old school. Plenty of fun projects blowing around in other dialects.

[akos]

I love the interface and structure.The loading went really really slowly though. I would suggest you to add some keyboard shortcuts (like [J] and [K] for switching articles back and forth) and let the users participate!

[coolsunglasses]

Haskell please.

[OafTobark]

Can you add an RSS Feed. Also why is the homepage forcing Javascript as the default instead of ALL languages as default with selection of each or all on the side (all option is missing).

[lowglow]

Any chance you can add our site to it? http://www.techendo.co/feed.rss

How are you collecting what sites to follow?

[mlakkadshaw]

I am collecting sites relating to general computer science (algorithms, data structures etc), machine learning, AI and programming languages.

[mlakkadshaw]

I have added Ruby in Ken, will add more today.

[nathan_f77]

a) Why is it called Ken?

b) Why is there no Ruby, C, C++, Go ... ?

[stefan_kendall]

Painfully slow, and now throwing 404s. Devs get hard-ons for fat client front-ends when web servers since the early 90s have been able to trivially serve up this kind of content.