Live data from Hacker News

Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

hncynic.leod.org

1–10 of 86 posts

Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#2
obligatory test:

Generate hacker news comments from titles

hncynic 1 minute ago

I thought it was going to be more like /. but I'm confused. Can you add some sort of comment link to /, which is something I could have easily navigated, like /. and /. would be great.

hncynic 1 minute ago

Nice, but I wonder why you would want to do the same with comments on the same page. If you're not really getting it, why make a single sentence and the title different?

hncynic 1 minute ago

How about adding a "Downvote" to the title? For example, "Hackernews: The best comment in the world: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=635686

"What I like about the HN thread, which is that I don't have to post links here to get upvotes on comments from hacker-news posts"

I just wanted a way to filter out the "Ask" from your comments so you could add new comments, and then maybe change the URL to "Show HN" to the "About the Hacker News thread" link.

Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#5
It would be useful to see the comments and get an idea of the quality of each title. This site does a good job of conveying what is good enough while still providing a summary of the contents and submitting an opinion.

How do you get your comment title into the list?

You can just use a few of the existing ones: http://hn.algolia.com/hacker

It's not perfect, but it works fine

(all three comment above generated by OP's site)

Re: Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

#8
Nice, and I like it too -- but it lacks the comments that are so useful for me. I've found a ton of good ideas to use on sites that I've just bought.

I've had a lot of fun making a script similar to this that would convert your site to a commenting system. Thoughts?

Post reply on HN