Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed • Hacker News Board

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#71

Post by swarup182 » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 4:27 AM UTC

Ok, now i like the concept, and it helps controlling the addiction to facebook. but doesn't this just get access to our facebook account ? and a hell of a privacy concern it creates.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#72

Post by adyimpulse » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 4:33 AM UTC

It could be a bit more creative. Like just insert some top HN posts into my feed rather than replacing the entire thing. Would be helpful.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#73

Post by DKnoll » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 5:05 AM UTC

swarup182 wrote: post #71

Ok, now i like the concept, and it helps controlling the addiction to facebook. but doesn't this just get access to our facebook account ? and a hell of a privacy concern it creates.

The JavaScript is right there for you to read. This won't give anyone access to your FB account.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#74

Post by wingerlang » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 5:43 AM UTC

notadoc wrote: post #27

Or just redirect facebook to hackernews via your hosts file? I can't emphasize enough how beneficial it has been to stop using facebook completely, I would highly recommend you try it.

What are the benefits?

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#75

Post by rajeshmr » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 6:30 AM UTC

hn is one of the very few places where we can find stuff outside the "bubble". Putting it in FB feed will "create" another bubble.

Dont u think so ?

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#76

Post by lloeki » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 7:15 AM UTC

codyb wrote: post #68

mintplant wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

    noprocrast: yes
    maxvisit: 60
    minaway: 1440

Contemplating making minaway 10080

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#77

Post by ensei5459 » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 7:22 AM UTC

I like it. Imma make it better. www.github.com/abhiii5459. This is me.

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#78

Post by fazkan » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 7:36 AM UTC

I use a chrome extension go fucking do it, which disables facebook, twitter and reddit. The only thing that I can see is hackernews.

As a fall back, I have also installed facebook newsfeed eradicator (chrome extension), because I dont trust myself. It shows me motivational quotes instead of the newsfeed.

This extension just gave me the idea to replace the newsfeed with hackernews posts, and as someone mentioned, have the ability to comment on posts....(another side project enqueued)

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#79

Post by sharjeel1992 » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 7:41 AM UTC

Cool stuff. But why would we want that?

Re: Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed

#80

Post by abhinavk » Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 7:44 AM UTC

Why would I need that unless I work at a place where I'm forced to use Facebook?

Neat userscript though!