During the most recent YC "launch season," I made a HN proxy solve two problems: filtering content based on URL/title and caching HN pages so we don't have to deal with 30s+ page load times. When I want my pop tech news tabloid drivel, I want it now.

You can use the URL params to customize your regex filter and follow the results across all the more/next links. It's super-minimal and effective at lowering my story-induced annoyance level throughout the day.

Tech tip: Sometimes you have to refresh the page to get a new version. If the cached version is too old (default cache time is 5min), the old page is immediately returned while a new page fetches in the background to maintain responsiveness at the expense of freshness.

    rebar get-deps
    rebar compile
    ./start-dev.sh

A hnf instance is usually running live at http://diff.biz/

• You can change the webserver's IP/Port in hnf.config.

Download deps:

    rebar get-deps

Build:

    rebar compile

We really should have tests, shouldn't we?