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Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

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Post by ColinWright »

Simon_M wrote: post #10
ColinWright wrote: post #7

Doesn't work for me, but probably because the machine I usually use to access HN is running Firefox 1.5 on SuSE 10.1. One of the things I love about HN is that it runs prefectly on such an old browser/OS combination. EDIT: Wow, a downvote despite providing concrete feedback to the submitter? Interesting. I might have to re-think my entire position about the HN "community" as expressed here: http://news.ycombinator.co…

Out of interest, why the old browser/OS combo?

Long story. Older hardware, doesn't do flashy stuff, helps stop me procrastinating, runs lots of low priority, background tasks that will get broken by upgrading, and so on.

The fast, whizzy machines with new OSs and up-to-date browsers get used for serious, work-related stuff. Not for HN.

Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

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Post by AdamGibbins »

Can you add the ability to link to the HN comment page instead of directly to the article please? I find they're often more insightful than the article itself.

Would also love the ability to specifically blacklist keywords.

Other than that awesome work, thanks.

Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

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Post by rmontanaro »

Hi all, thank you for the reception.

To let you know, I wanted to build the simplest thing that could possibly work at first, but everything is feasible in the future. Blacklists, better browser support (I've tested it only on the newest of the five most used, sorry about that), and to provide more options.

I'll work on all that as soon as my college exams are over.

Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

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Post by mnutt »

ColinWright wrote: post #11
Simon_M wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of interest, why the old browser/OS combo?

Long story. Older hardware, doesn't do flashy stuff, helps stop me procrastinating, runs lots of low priority, background tasks that will get broken by upgrading, and so on. The fast, whizzy machines with new OSs and up-to-date browsers get used for serious, work-related stuff. Not for HN.

Hasn't Firefox 1.5 lacked security updates since it was discontinued ~4 years ago? Why not Chrome or something?

Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed

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Post by adam_albrecht »

AdamGibbins wrote: post #14

Can you add the ability to link to the HN comment page instead of directly to the article please? I find they're often more insightful than the article itself. Would also love the ability to specifically blacklist keywords. Other than that awesome work, thanks.

I'd really like to see both links, as well.
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