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Any plans to support HTTP authentication? This is wonderful! It could save us from having to hire an administrative assistant to do manual scraping.

What do you think about http://news.ycommentator.com ? It does some HN-enhancement (shows top comments on the front page), but using a server to do all the processing instead of a …

An icon to access the sort menu would make the interface a little easier to use. Context meus are nice, but they should be a shortcut to an action rather than the only way to trigg…

This is a great example of a Minimum Viable Product. It has just enough features to be useful (multiple accounts, search, editing) and no more. From the website, they have plans to…

That's a great idea. My preference is to have the comments always expanded so I can skim them quickly, but an expand / collapse feature would increase the app's appeal to people wh…

The comments on HN are often at least as good (if not better!) than the links. I built this app to have a way to quickly read through all the top comments on front page stories. I …

The comments on HN are often at least as good (if not better!) than the links. I built this app to have a way to quickly read through all the top comments on front page stories. I …

A question for PG: How many applicants did you get?

The decision on whether to release your work under a free license depends a lot on the purpose you write it for. If you're writing, say, a blog to express your thoughts or as a sel…

Lim Cheng Soon, the creator of the Hacker Monthly, deserves a good deal of credit for securing the rights to reprint all of the content in this magazine. I'm sure that was the most…

I like your summary of the talk. One subtly to his position that made the talk stand out for me was that he wasn't completely opposed to the top-down model for determining the weig…

I've been using websnapr.com for the web app I'm working on. It seems to be the best web-based solution around, but it does have some drawbacks, like thumbnails for new sites take …