Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

Post by dicytea » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 4:45 PM UTC

pabue wrote: post #92

pramodbiligiri wrote: post #20

This is great! For stories with 100s of comments it's nice to start browsing from a collapsed view of top-level comments. - Why is the Comments count shown only for the highlighted story? - On Firefox Windows, pressing the Enter key on an item triggers a popup warning at the top of the page. Took me a few tries to notice what was going on. - Alt + H triggers the Firefox Help menu for me :| Can you change that shortcu…

1. I initially wanted to display as little information as possbile to keep it clean and prevent clutter, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to show at least the comments count. 2. Oh, I didn't notice that. Might be caused by the way the new tab is opened. Gonna look into that, thanks. 3. Good catch, gonna change that. 4. Do mean contrast wise? 5. You're right, the spacing between paragraphs is missing. That will get fixed.…

Post by ghengeveld » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 5:07 PM UTC

pabue wrote: post #143

bennyp101 wrote: post #40

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I like this! I use a tiling WM, so I can have this open in a window (or scratchpad) that is shrunk to the width of your column, and just shoot over to it, and move around nice and easily! Two things: - alt + h doesn't open the Help for me, it opens the actual help menu in Firefox. - It would be nice to mark the entries as 'read' and show if more comments have happened since reading Edit: Wrapping it in a small Tauri…

Thank you for liking it :D 1. The alt+h hotkey will be probably be replaced by "?". That should fix this. 2.1 That's a pretty cool idea. Would you want the "mark as read" part to happen automatically or manually? 2.2 Showing new/unread comments is also a cool idea but it will increase the amount of requests to the HN api. However I'm gonna look into it. Wrapping it in a Tauri might be cool, because I actually wanted…

Post by qorrect » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

Post by danschumann » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

Post by gwbas1c » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 5:22 PM UTC

pabue wrote: post #2

Haxplore is a little web app I created because I didn't like to click around the HN interface to read submission and discussions. I also wanted to experiment with different ways of implementing keyboard control in web apps and HN seemed like the perfect test subject. So maybe it's useful for some of you too. The most important features are: - Intuitive keyboard control - Link detection in comments with hotkeys to ope…