Several years back, I did this - it was called HackerSlide. A sliding bar with a...

Several years back, I did this - it was called HackerSlide. A sliding bar with a few days worth of hours, slide it and the front page automatically updated - see http://peterc.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/hackerslid...

And.. no-one was really that interested. I used it every now and then to catch up but when HN moved to the new API I didn't bother updating it (although it would be trivial to do so if anyone were interested).