Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

Post by etcet » Mon, May 07, 2012, 7:16 PM UTC

tommoor wrote: post #11

keva161 wrote: post #9

Nice but it doesn't work if you visit http://hackerne.ws/ Only http://news.ycombinator.com/

I didn't even know that URL existed - i'll add support in the next update :-)

Post by rkudeshi » Mon, May 07, 2012, 7:44 PM UTC

etcet wrote: post #81

driverdan wrote: post #3

Neat. I started working on a bookmarklet to improve HN last year called Hacker News Enhancement Suite: https://github.com/driverdan/Hacker-News-Enhancement-Suite I never got the code far enough to announce / release. The long term goal was to also make plugins.

And I actually posted my extension also called 'Hacker News Enhancement Suite' yesterday but no one saw/cared. https://github.com/etcet/HNES http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3933090 I cannot say how angry/sad/confused this makes me :(

Post by EvilTerran » Mon, May 07, 2012, 8:22 PM UTC

etcet wrote: post #83

EvilTerran wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been awfully tempted to have my userscript just completely rip the page layout apart & re-assemble it properly as styled divs, actually. I might still do that.

As someone who just wrote their own extension for HN, I think that's the right way to go about things. Tables are such a pain in the ass and I there were multiple times where I had to talk myself into 'staying the course' and just getting it done rather than starting from scratch with a more sane approach. I think if you could create a nice minimalist table-parser base it would be useful for any future browser extens…

Post by adrianhoward » Mon, May 07, 2012, 9:05 PM UTC

knite wrote: post #56

Not bad! I was previously using a combination of the Georgify and Collapsible comment extensions. Your extension is better in some ways and worse in others. Suggestions: Collapse link shouldn't be on the far right, and collapsed comments should only show 1-2 lines regardless of actual length. Link color brightness could be taken down a few notches. Reply link shouldn't be underlined.

Post by tommoor » Mon, May 07, 2012, 11:43 PM UTC

gruseom wrote: post #76

SeoxyS wrote: post #66

One of the things I like most about Hacker News is that it's one of the few sites left without social media sharing buttons, or as I like to call them, junk. Anything that will add those buttons to sites that don't have them is the antithesis of what I need.

Fully agree. Worst of all are the truculent widget bars that refuse to scroll with the rest of the page. Thankfully the Antisocial subscription for Adblock takes care of them.