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Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by miki123211 »

tedmiston wrote: post #30
valentinvieriu wrote: post #20

I like to explore it more visually. https://hnews.xyz/ Is that something you might consider adding in the future? ( I’m the author of https://hnews.xyz )

The rendered screenshots are a super nice feature. I have a few dozen HN apps (yours included) saved in this Pinboard collection for those looking for more alternative clients. https://pinboard.in/u:tedmiston/t:hacker-news/

I wish there was a hn viewer integrated with Outline. something like, for each new article on front, check whether it can be outlined and, if it can, just display it without redirecting to the original site. That would protect against slashdotted sites, paywalls, annoying gdpr consent pop ups, sorry but we don't like europe pages, all kinds of tracking and js heavy websites (especially if you're on i.e. Lynx) etc. This could be done either by redirecting to the Outline website or using its API (see the network traffic for details on how it works). Also a HN that would be essentially a list of check boxes ordered by time and an "add selected to Pocket" button would be nice too.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by TeMPOraL »

andirk wrote: post #43
eterps wrote: post #22

Only now I realized that I use https://hckrnews.com for so many years that I have come to think of it as the actual HN front page. It's hard to imagine something better.

Do you mean that we're not all typings news.ycombinator.com ? That's kind of tripping me out. And where is this new 'more' button?

Are you? I'm just typing new. Or not even that; HN is often just CTRL+SHIFT+T away...

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by Fnoord »

andirk wrote: post #43
eterps wrote: post #22

Only now I realized that I use https://hckrnews.com for so many years that I have come to think of it as the actual HN front page. It's hard to imagine something better.

Do you mean that we're not all typings news.ycombinator.com ? That's kind of tripping me out. And where is this new 'more' button?

I type hack or hacker or hacker n (depending on other history). URL bar does the rest.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by jfarlow »

tivert wrote: post #13
Karlax wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe it just means how long the entry stayed on the front page. There shouldn't be anything special about computing this number.

Ah, that makes sense. I'd initially interpreted it as some kind of engagement metric.

yep - I missed that concept too.

"...ordered by {time spent there}->(how long it was on the front page)"

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by miki123211 »

tedmiston wrote: post #24
kgwxd wrote: post #21

Any chance all the lists[1] will get their own RSS feeds? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

Kinda surprised someone hasn't built that already on top of the existing API.

see hnrss.org. I use it along with an iOS shortcut that retrieves the articles for me, concatenates to a big txt file, uploads to dropbox so that I can read later on whatever I want and automatically starts reading with the build-in tts.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by a-wu »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #52
andirk wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean that we're not all typings news.ycombinator.com ? That's kind of tripping me out. And where is this new 'more' button?

Are you? I'm just typing new . Or not even that; HN is often just CTRL+SHIFT+T away...

For me just typing "n" suffices for autocomplete....maybe I should pay more attention to my habits.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by pmoriarty »

forgotmypw wrote: post #41
pmoriarty wrote: post #37

How many people actually look at the front page rather than just use the RSS feed? https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

I largely browse using the front page. I am not looking to keep up with every article ever, I just look for a few interesting things to read, then close it and move on with my day. I also find the design and web layout to be very pleasing. My RSS reading habits never recovered from GR's demise... but maybe one of these days.

"I am not looking to keep up with every article ever"

HN's RSS feed does not post every article ever, but just those that make it to the front page.

It's an alternate way of accessing the same articles, but I find it much more powerful and useful than using a web browser for the following reasons:

1 - I have a local archive of the titles of and links to each article that does not depend on HN. So if HN ever goes away, I can still access them all.

2 - I don't need to click through and wait for multiple web pages to load to browse through my archives.

3 - Newsboat, the terminal-based RSS reader I use is far faster and more responsive than any web browser, on my old, slow laptop.

4 - Newsboat is also way more powerful and extensible in ways that a plain web page is not. I can easily do things like tagging and filtering, I can delete articles that I don't want to see while saving the ones I do without actually having to open up the destination web page, and a lot more.

5 - I can locally search through articles without telling any external search engine company what I'm searching for. This is a small but important way to practice defense-in-depth in the realm of privacy.

At some point I'll probably try switching to reading RSS feeds from within Emacs, which should be even more flexible and powerful.

Re: New ‘past’ link on HN front page

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Post by e12e »

coderintherye wrote: post #36
dang wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like it, except that it's too long.

"Afore" would be nice, but it's too esoteric. How about "Ahead" ? Synonym of previously, as well as goes with the idea, like "Go ahead and read another story"

That, or: "ere". Length equal to "new" :)
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