Ycombinator's Hacker News is probably the most popular news site for programmers and startup types. It's basically Digg before it jumped the shark, minus the good looks. The signal to noise ratio is incredibly high. The site, however, feels so 1990s. It's probably part of its appeal, but I felt like trying my hand at creating a Safari Extension for Hacker News in the vein of Google Reader, and I've made some headway.

I'm not normally one for preannouncing stuff, but it's mostly working and getting close to a finished state.

My project is open source and hosted at "the Githubs". I expect to have the bulk of the functionality completed by next week. If you can't wait, feel free to clone the repo and build a copy yourself.

Some highlights:

• You can "star" items to be read later
• You can use a mobilizer to clean up the appearance of the original link
• The extension remembers what you've read

Anyways, keep an eye out here for an announcement next week or so, where I'll be explaining what it does and how it works in greater detail.