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Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by nsizx »

stackbutterflow wrote: post #23
datenarsch wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

really? like what? I like hn precisely because of its minimalistic approach.

Pagination. I'm sure most people don't know that you can click on "More replies" at the bottom of the page to read more comments. At least I didn't know at first and spent many years reading only the first page. Edit: It's actually "More" not "More replies".

I have never understood this. On websites, paginators are always at the end of pages. This one is there and it clearly says what it does. How can someone miss it?

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by voidfunc »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #22
amelius wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still missing modern privacy features, such as the "right to be forgotten".

If you email HN mods they are fairly reasonable is what I've heard.

The mods are awesome on here in general compared to many comparably sized communities.

Dang deserves a lot of praise. Thank you Dang.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by AndrewDucker »

Fragoel2 wrote: post #14
AndrewDucker wrote: post #8

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There is no official HN app, for any OS. People have made multiple unofficial ones, using the API, though.

And many kinda work but are no longer mantained. Such is the fate of the iOS app previously mentioned and of Materialistic (Android)

I use Materialistic. Is there a better one?

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by aniforprez »

Fragoel2 wrote: post #14
AndrewDucker wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no official HN app, for any OS. People have made multiple unofficial ones, using the API, though.

And many kinda work but are no longer mantained. Such is the fate of the iOS app previously mentioned and of Materialistic (Android)

I'm currently using Harmonic for Android after Materialistic irritated me too many times and while it's definitely got some issues, it works well enough for casual use

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by newbamboo »

tyingq wrote: post #29

I don't see it mentioned in another comment, so I'll add that part of why it's not public is probably to hide how exactly some things like "shadow banning" work, or the exact secret sauce to make the front page, etc.

I recall they pushed updates a month or so back. Forget why I know this; vaguely recall some hiccups being mentioned. So they seem to update it on the regular, maybe on a pro re nata basis.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by Uehreka »

mtmail wrote: post #27
NikolaNovak wrote: post #11

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There's an app? Why?? It's the plainest of websites. I've been using it on android and iPhone for years without ever thinking "oh boy this would be better with an installable update able app asking me permissions and doing who knows what on my device". I assume any apps out there would be 3rd party scrapers...

Most 3rd apps use the Hackernews API https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Having tried to write an HN client myself, I can assure you most of them scrape instead of using the API. The API is basically read only, is impractical for things like loading a full tree of comments (get ready to make an API call for every comment) and you need to scrape if you want things like “what auth hash do I need in order to upvote this particular comment via POST”.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by pablodavila »

bennyp101 wrote: post #25
NikolaNovak wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an app? Why?? It's the plainest of websites. I've been using it on android and iPhone for years without ever thinking "oh boy this would be better with an installable update able app asking me permissions and doing who knows what on my device". I assume any apps out there would be 3rd party scrapers...

I use https://github.com/weiran/Hackers because it’s nice to read on, but then to comment I have to use the site, so yea lol If there was a dark mode on the site I’d just use that

Octal lets you comment from the app, if that’s something you are missing.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by kjaftaedi »

amelius wrote: post #12
MontrealRaised wrote: post #3

Hacker news was originally written by Paul Graham in Arc. Arc is a Lisp-inspired programming language also written/invented by PG at the same time and Hacker News programmed in it to (also) prove it works. Arc did not catch on outside of Hacker News. Arc is free and open source. Regarding Hacker News, itself: "Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN? (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006037 PG's response is:…

It's still missing modern privacy features, such as the "right to be forgotten".

Right to be forgotten is an old EU law, the new GDPR law is 'right to erasure'

In the event you don't feel like deleting your own comments the mods will likely help you.

A general best practice is to avoid posting personally identifiable information.

Re: Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

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Post by jmeister »

krapp wrote: post #10
MontrealRaised wrote: post #3

Hacker news was originally written by Paul Graham in Arc. Arc is a Lisp-inspired programming language also written/invented by PG at the same time and Hacker News programmed in it to (also) prove it works. Arc did not catch on outside of Hacker News. Arc is free and open source. Regarding Hacker News, itself: "Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN? (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006037 PG's response is:…

>The reason HN lacks x cool feature is not that I expend no energy on the site, but that I expend all my energy on what users actually care about, which is not features but the content. said pg, on a forum in which users constantly complain about missing features...

That line is from 2013.
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