I still like http://hn.premii.com
How do some sites (like this one) get more accurate and up-to-date data than others (one in OP)?
An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
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Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#32This website, hckrnews.com, is developed and maintained by Wayne Larsen: https://github.com/wvl
BTW another project of Wayne's is: http://clara.io
Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#33I welcome this, but the UI confuses immediately: what's top 10 and top 20? and top 50%? No obvious explanations as to what the referent of "top" is! No scales, no FAQ. Also, I want to know what the settings are compared with the "official" HN frontpage ordering. "about" is broken, where I had hoped to find a FAQ
You can try /about again. Server was having problems there with the load.
FYI top 10 / top 20 / top 50% should be the "Top N" stories by number of points for each day according to your timezone.
Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#34Excellent move! Cheers! Can we also look at those Arials at the top?
Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#35I used to use this interface, but then I noticed a bug (or interesting feature, depending on your point of view) in that when you were viewing the top 10 or top 20, and loaded more articles, some articles would disappear from the list. My theory on this is that it was caused by loading articles a certain number of hours back from the current time, and then grouping by day before sorting to the top X. For example, if…
Sorry if I never got back to you about this.
There were definitely some bugs around the filtering / content loading. I _think_ they've been resolved for a while now, so I hope you'll give it another shot.
Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#36I've been pretty happy with the HackerNew Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
HackerNew is also open source, and the developer (Tom Moor) is very open to pull requests: https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew
Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#37I've been pretty happy with the HackerNew Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
Using this for over 6 months, can't go back to regular HN, even though this means browsing using Chrome.
Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#38I still like http://hn.premii.com
Huh. This would be alright on an iPad, but it doesn't fit my current flow of browsing HN:
* skim a page of links
* open ~5 interesting links in new tab, open comments if I predict the comments will be interesting
* go through tabs, which are already loaded by the time I get there
With this strategy, there's not a millisecond of perceived loading time.
Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#39One thing I would love is:
-top X posts by comments from a day/week/month
-top X posts by votes from day/week/momth
What I don't like about Hacker News is that interesting things fall out of front page too quickly and discussion dies I prefer interface where interesting stuff stays at the top longer (amount of comments last week approximate it well in my view).
Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#40The HipsterNews chrome extension is pretty sweet. I've been using it for 3 months or so
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc...