Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles • Hacker News Board

jedberg wrote: post #4

This is awesome! On an unrelated note, anyone have good resources for converting chrome extensions to Safari? I found this and will try it later if no one has a better suggestion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/10meyn5/how_to_conv...

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Re: Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles

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Post by smusamashah » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 6:48 PM UTC

I made this user script that does the same. Uses localstorage, when you come back and refresh, if there were new stories, it adds `(NEW)` in green before the title.

Also added a comment count change in there recently.

https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/e7c9ed3936ba69e522f8cb38...

Re: Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles

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Post by gabrielsroka » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 8:12 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #8

gabrielsroka wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought Safari and Firefox were supposed to start supporting Chrome's webextensions. I've had some luck with Firefox although there are differences. I haven't tried Safari.

I don't see a way to install an extension that isn't in the Safari store, other than that link I found on reddit. But I could definitely be missing something.

I meant they support the standard. If you have the source code. I didn't mean that Safari can install them directly from Chrome's store.

Re: Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles

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Post by adolph » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 8:27 PM UTC

This is interesting but seeing the same headlines over and over does two things for me:

  * internal opening-HN-too-much alert
  * headline spaced repetition learning

Re: Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles

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Post by ljoshua » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 8:55 PM UTC

frfl wrote: post #3

I've defaulted to this https://hckrnews.com/ intead of HN homepage. This is ordered by time rather than rank.

Same here. Saves me so much time and very reliable. There are also a few settings one can tweak (limit to homepage or top X%, for example) to make it even better.

Re: Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles

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Post by disillusioned » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 9:17 PM UTC

Slightly unrelated, but I've been using a similar Stylish theme to this one for years and it makes my HN experience much more readable and enjoyable: https://userstyles.org/styles/46180/georgify-for-hacker-news

Re: Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles

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Post by qingcharles » Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 9:50 PM UTC

Now I just need to rework it for my favorite HN front page viewer:

https://hackernews.betacat.io/