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Show HN: YCombinato – A domain-hacked "Hacker News" client

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Post by gitgud »

Hi HN,

This is a little "HN Reader" experiment I made using a domain hack of "news.ycombinato.com" notice the "r" is missing.

Basically, I thought it would be cool to make a "clone" of the "Hacker News" URL so you can quickly navigate to "YCombinato" from any post on "news.ycombinator" by just dropping the r in the domain. The benefit is a few extra features like; sorting, searching etc...

Unfortunately I realized it's essentially a phishing attack :( according to the browser, which means there will probably be a warning message on most browsers... but it's still usable and hopefully people find it enjoyable.

There's so many "Hacker News" clients now that it's almost equivalent to the TODO app for web developers. This project does take it pretty far by replicating the URL, so if moderators are unhappy with it, please let me know

It's a static site using the [1] algolia API, but I tried hard to make it fast and snappy. It's fully [2] open-source and hosted on github too.

Anyway, thought I'd share it, let me know what you think!

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/api

[2] https://github.com/benwinding/ycombinato

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Post by notpushkin »

> Unfortunately I realized it's essentially a phishing attack :( according to the browser, which means there will probably be a warning message on most browsers... but it's still usable and hopefully people find it enjoyable.

No phishing warnings for me. Not sure if YC would be happy with it though :^)

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Post by dimaor »

discordance wrote: post #3

I suspect you’re about to be contacted for trademark infringement.

What trademark exactly? just curious...

what prevents me (legally) to purchase a domain, make it orange, and manually aggregate news in it?

Assuming the content is not scraped, and no icons / logos are copied, can there be legal actions followed and if so on what basis?

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Post by the-dude »

dimaor wrote: post #4
discordance wrote: post #3

I suspect you’re about to be contacted for trademark infringement.

What trademark exactly? just curious... what prevents me (legally) to purchase a domain, make it orange, and manually aggregate news in it? Assuming the content is not scraped, and no icons / logos are copied, can there be legal actions followed and if so on what basis?

I recall the color green being trademarked by the Dutch Telecom ( KPN ), only in combination with telecom though.

Domain typosquat + brand color/style imitation : IANAL, but it sounds clear cut to me.

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Post by forty »

dimaor wrote: post #4
discordance wrote: post #3

I suspect you’re about to be contacted for trademark infringement.

What trademark exactly? just curious... what prevents me (legally) to purchase a domain, make it orange, and manually aggregate news in it? Assuming the content is not scraped, and no icons / logos are copied, can there be legal actions followed and if so on what basis?

ycombinator. You cannot have a mark named Teslo which sells electric cars, as customers could mistake one for the other.

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Post by bob88jg »

forty wrote: post #7
dimaor wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What trademark exactly? just curious... what prevents me (legally) to purchase a domain, make it orange, and manually aggregate news in it? Assuming the content is not scraped, and no icons / logos are copied, can there be legal actions followed and if so on what basis?

ycombinator. You cannot have a mark named Teslo which sells electric cars, as customers could mistake one for the other.

But ycombinator don't "sell" HN do they? So no infringement...no customers...
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