@michaelmontano

Last Friday night I built yc.backtype.com — I wanted to make Hacker News more relevant and interesting by overlaying statuses on the front-page from anyone I was following on Twitter. Doing this well would not be trivial, but thanks to our powerful back-end at BackType, it was a simple call to an internal API. Check it out for yourself by entering your twitter handle on the front login page. It works for any user, so you can check out how they see Hacker News, here are a few samples. I've replaced my HN bookmark with yc.backtype.com and have really enjoyed it so far. Let me know what you think.