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I wish HN had a "search" button but it's OK to search through Google. I hope they will never change the design forever. It reminds me of the BBS which I still logs on through Cterm these days.
Footer. Also DDG !hn If DDG is your default browser, you can run that in the navbar. Which I do all the damned time.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=thinkpad
So not nice!
I love hearing stories about people choosing to forego large frontend frameworks, or even not using JS altogether. Is there a community or name for this? If not, I'm going to call it #neverscript. I find the web works far better, more often, for me when SPAs and JS aren't used. There's something about minimalistic sites that's very appealing to me. I know it doesn't work for all sites, but a lot of the web could be i…
Boggles my mind how bloated and down right creepy the modern web is today.
A webcomic is a far cry from some main stream site, but it served as a good window into how others abuse their viewers with bloat and surveillance.
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When reading on an iPad, tapping on links is nearly impossible. A better responsive CSS file wouldn't make the site any slower or degrade the experience for laptop users.
What do you mean? Haven't had that issue. Am on desktop version, unsure if mobile exists
A while ago I managed to open HN on a Nokia 3310 classic. It crashed eventually (not surprising given the minuscule amount of RAM this device has), but the front page was visible long enough for me to read some of the titles.
- Sent from my Apple Watch
I personally believe this is one of the couple reason why HN's demographic is significantly on the older side, in Tech terms. I personally wish HN attracted a bit of a fresher, younger crowd as the conversation here has become more stale over the last few years.
I wish there were more preteens and teens on the site. By the time someone reaches 20 their ideas are a little stale shaped by the harsh realities of life.
Agreed. Though a Reddit style red envelope would make me respond to people faster that interact with me
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You'd need some frontend code to hide the upvote icon though.
That frontend code already exists and does that every time you vote (line 27 of https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js ). The response content isn't used for anything at all.
What a pleasantly tiny script file. More site code should be this easy to read.
HN is lightweight in some ways, but also quite bad in others. For example, every single time you vote on anything, the site sends back a 302 redirect and then a copy of the entire page's HTML in response. This means that every vote results in a response that's usually around 10KB gzipped. As of right now, for me, voting on any comment in this thread currently causes a 14KB response and takes about 1.3 seconds to fini…