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Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school

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Post by jmtame » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 6:44 PM UTC

Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school
hndir.com

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Post by pclark » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 6:55 PM UTC

right now, access is limited to users who have .edu accounts only. please sign up by clicking "login" above.

glad there aren't hackers outside US schools.

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Post by paulgb » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 6:55 PM UTC

Cool, but .edu is almost exclusively used by U.S. schools only.

If you whitelist @uwaterloo.ca, I know that there are a few uwaterloo students on HN.

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Post by jmtame » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 7:07 PM UTC

paulgb wrote: post #3

Cool, but .edu is almost exclusively used by U.S. schools only. If you whitelist @uwaterloo.ca, I know that there are a few uwaterloo students on HN.

I don't mean to limit it to us schools only, I just threw this together last Saturday. How do you suggest I make this work for all hackers at all schools?

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Post by paulgb » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 7:20 PM UTC

jmtame wrote: post #4

paulgb wrote: post #3

Cool, but .edu is almost exclusively used by U.S. schools only. If you whitelist @uwaterloo.ca, I know that there are a few uwaterloo students on HN.

I don't mean to limit it to us schools only, I just threw this together last Saturday. How do you suggest I make this work for all hackers at all schools?

Unfortunately, not all countries have a standard TLD for schools. I think the only way around it is with a whitelist of domains, but I'm not sure where the list would come from. Maybe someone has created it already? Either that, or use the facebook API.

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Post by chedigitz » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 7:24 PM UTC

Pretty cool!

signed up & added Temple University.

Beacame a lil frustrated with the "join" form, every time it goes through the error validation, it clears all the previously typed information forcing me to re-enter. I Did it twice, on the third gave up. I'll try later.

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Post by noahlt » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 7:29 PM UTC

Great idea. Love the colors (even though usually I hate light-on-dark).

I wonder, though: is it possible to ask Facebook to query for the intersection of users at my school and in an arbitrary (for instance, "hacker news") Facebook group? (I wouldn't be surprised if it's not, but it would definitely be an excellent feature for Facebook to consider.)

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Post by thorax » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 7:44 PM UTC

pclark wrote: post #2

right now, access is limited to users who have .edu accounts only. please sign up by clicking "login" above. glad there aren't hackers outside US schools.

I guess we'll have to start one for people who aren't in school?

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Post by raffi » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 7:51 PM UTC

jmtame wrote: post #4

paulgb wrote: post #3

Cool, but .edu is almost exclusively used by U.S. schools only. If you whitelist @uwaterloo.ca, I know that there are a few uwaterloo students on HN.

I don't mean to limit it to us schools only, I just threw this together last Saturday. How do you suggest I make this work for all hackers at all schools?

I just graduated. I don't think you're going to hurt anyone's feelings if you accept any email address and let folks specify their school. This is a great idea though and I hope it gets use.

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Post by jah » Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 7:53 PM UTC

Can I view the schools without logging in?