The Briefings have been most useful for me. It feels more curated and less firehose-y.

https://bubbles.town/briefing

Would love a version of this on HN.

https://hcker.news

also

https://hckrnews.com

for a slightly different take on the concept

Also, showing the excerpts from the post text is vastly superior to just showing the post titles.

I currently work on a feature to show excerpts (and read time) in the list views as well. But I will wait with the deployment until the Hacker News visitor wave has calmed down.

> and read time

If anything, I would recommend a word count instead.

Word count is objective. Read time is subjective, variable, just an estimate, and probably based on word count anyway.