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as a personal project to make HN better for you, i guess it's cool. but making every link open in a new tab so my back button never works is definitely not for me.
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I'm curious, what value have you brought to the ecosystem? What's your github? Is this it? https://github.com/wesz
Yes, it is. I'm not really active on github (other than some toys i want to share with friends), i didn't even update portfolio on my website in over 10 years. I'm happy to share my projects and contributions privately, if you're interested.
Now, you're talking about bringing value to the ecosystem, and I'm not sure how 10 year old github accounts, and private repositories fulfill that.
Let's see what you've got that is so amazing.
i like some of the things this does, but pretty much all of this is not UX improvements, it's UX opinions. as a personal project to make HN better for you, i guess it's cool. but making every link open in a new tab so my back button never works is definitely not for me.
UPDATE: implemented as a preference that you can turn off. just click the app icon in the extensions list.
https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/releases...
So many extensions and services, because YCombinator cannot have a part-time employee working on such an important community: * https://hncompanion.com/ * http://oj-hn.com/ * https://hnrelevant.imadij.com/ * https://hnreplies.com/
So many extensions and services, because YCombinator cannot have a part-time employee working on such an important community: * https://hncompanion.com/ * http://oj-hn.com/ * https://hnrelevant.imadij.com/ * https://hnreplies.com/
So many extensions and services, because YCombinator cannot have a part-time employee working on such an important community: * https://hncompanion.com/ * http://oj-hn.com/ * https://hnrelevant.imadij.com/ * https://hnreplies.com/
Why hire when you can get it for free?
So many extensions and services, because YCombinator cannot have a part-time employee working on such an important community: * https://hncompanion.com/ * http://oj-hn.com/ * https://hnrelevant.imadij.com/ * https://hnreplies.com/
Dan and I are full time YC employees and other engineers at YC do plenty to keep HN running. HN’s software is continually developed to handle growth in traffic, along with abuse, spam, and (particularly recently) bots and generated content. The lack of new UI features is not due to lack of resources/investment but because it’s always been the HN way to maintain a minimalist design and for the content and discussions…
So many extensions and services, because YCombinator cannot have a part-time employee working on such an important community: * https://hncompanion.com/ * http://oj-hn.com/ * https://hnrelevant.imadij.com/ * https://hnreplies.com/
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Dan and I are full time YC employees and other engineers at YC do plenty to keep HN running. HN’s software is continually developed to handle growth in traffic, along with abuse, spam, and (particularly recently) bots and generated content. The lack of new UI features is not due to lack of resources/investment but because it’s always been the HN way to maintain a minimalist design and for the content and discussions…
"Minimalist" in 2026 is different than what it used to be in the '90s.