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Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by raldu »

Does anyone remember the front-end to HN that categorizes posts according to proper topic categories like "Privacy," "Coding," "Startups," etc. with ML?

I remember it being posted or mentioned in a comment but cannot find where it is.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by krapp »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #33
krapp wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't that require you to give a random site your login to post on your behalf?

It would. Whether you should is another thing entirely. I'm asking why noone seems to even offer the option?

I can't speak for anyone else, but if it were me, I wouldn't expect anyone to trust me enough to use it, so why bother?

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by StavrosK »

dankohn1 wrote: post #38

The most useful HN addon is HN Replies by Dan Grossman. You get an email if someone replies to your comment. Simple UI and real value. http://www.hnreplies.com/

Fiiiinally! Also, an interesting blast from the past, I used to play a MUD with Dan back in the nineties, he was doing well even back then.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by jshevek »

maze-le wrote: post #30

They didn't even mention haxor-news. This is basically a command-line interface with a lot of features. Maybe there is justifieble objection to the "read Hacker News without the eyestrain"-bit in this case. [0]: https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news

Thank you for posting this. This is, imo, the most important front end to hn. I'm surprised it was left out of the list.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by cmg »

teh_klev wrote: post #9

I've used the Hacker News Enhancement Suite for the past few years and thought it did just enough things to make the site a tad more usable without going overboard: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

I've been making the switch from Chrome to Firefox over the past month, and HNES is the one thing I truly miss that I haven't found a good replacement for.

Re: Other ways to read Hacker News

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Post by bryanlarsen »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #22

Ok, so all of those are for reading, but I don't see any that would allow voting and commenting on HN. It's also the case with pretty much all other HN apps/interfaces I've seen (with notable exception of HN Enhancement Suite, which is a browser extension). I don't understand why that is. Is there some important rule of HN that disallows any third-party interaction except through the official interface? Or do people…

Option #1 hckrnews and some of the other options don't disrupt voting or commenting much at all, they're just a bunch of links to the main Hacker News web site: you have to click through to Hacker News to read the comments, so that's how you upvote and/or comment.

Preventing you from upvoting without actually reading the articles and/or comments is probably a good thing.

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