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Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by apizzimenti »

mrleinad wrote: post #21
catherinezng wrote: post #10

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Developer of hackernews-newsfeed here: I'll work on that this weekend :)

Check out the rest of comments. Making it look like some of my contacts shared news on HN would be awesome.. though tricky I presume.

The other dev of this project here - I think it's less of a challenge than presumed because, essentially, we're hijacking Facebook's markup structure anyway. All we have to do is inject stories one-by-one into existing elements rather than replacing the news feed entirely.

If you want this as an actual feature, create a new issue ticket for your request here: https://github.com/yczeng/hackernews-newsfeed. Happy hacking!

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by apizzimenti »

tanderson92 wrote: post #43
apizzimenti wrote: post #26

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You don't actually need Greasemonkey. These scripts are browser-agnostic, so if you use Chrome, you can just install this as a Chrome extension. If you don't use Chrome, you can install this on Firefox using Greasemonkey.

The chrome extension blocks the column to the left of the newsfeed for me, too. The tampermonkey script does not.

Currently, the Grease/Tampermonkey userscript and the Chrome extension driver script are separate entities. We're working to either make them one and the same OR be exclusively driver scripts, and the real work is done somewhere else.

If you want to make this a suggestion that we can track, open up a new issue ticket at https://github.com/yczeng/hackernews-newsfeed.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by apizzimenti »

water42 wrote: post #8

There was a missed opportunity here to format HN posts using Facebook styles

If you want this as a feature, you can provide it through a pull request OR submit it as an issue ticket on the repo, and we'll get to it.

Either way: https://github.com/yczeng/hackernews-newsfeed

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by localhost3000 »

Ha! this is great.

I made a similar one that replaces newsfeed with a todo app that unlocks when you complete your work: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/todobook/ihbejplhk...

It will also optionally replace Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, Twitter, and Youtube homepages/feed with the same todo app. Basically all the sites that stop me from doing my work (HN is one of the worst for me)

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#67

Post by saghm »

bronson wrote: post #57
ChuckMcM wrote: post #55

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I love this so much. Sitting at a party that you have no interest in, reading hackernews, while everyone thinks you're just hanging out on facebook.

Is one of those less nerdy than the other?

Yes, but it's also the one that's less fulfilling

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by codyb »

mintplant wrote: post #60
noamhacker wrote: post #31

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I think the point of this extension is for people who need to access facebook features like groups and events, but don't want to get distracted by the dopamine-inducing newsfeed on the way

So instead you're distracted by the dopamine-inducing Hacker News feed.

Yep. I'm off facebook but I've been thinking about blocking hackernews and fark at the router level if I could. At some point you have to start doing things instead of reading about the people who are.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

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Post by mrleinad »

apizzimenti wrote: post #61
mrleinad wrote: post #21

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Check out the rest of comments. Making it look like some of my contacts shared news on HN would be awesome.. though tricky I presume.

The other dev of this project here - I think it's less of a challenge than presumed because, essentially, we're hijacking Facebook's markup structure anyway. All we have to do is inject stories one-by-one into existing elements rather than replacing the news feed entirely. If you want this as an actual feature, create a new issue ticket for your request here: https://github.com/yczeng/hackernews-newsfeed . Happy hack…

Done!
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