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Re: Useful apps for Hacker News

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Post by trezor »

middlegeek wrote: post #21

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jazzychad.hn This Hacker News app for Android is my favorite and recently ousted the one listed in this article on my device. Especially useful is the "text-only on viewtext.org." feature.

I find the inability to check on my own threads and comments a big enough lacking to keep me from actually using it.

It's http://ihackernews.com for me, even though I have to manually bookmark my profile page to lookup my own threads.

Re: Useful apps for Hacker News

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Post by trezor »

notintokyo wrote: post #8
bemmu wrote: post #2

MetaExtension is my current project. I started this project after noticing how little usage most Chrome extensions get, even though many of them are quite useful. Most decent Chrome extensions have just some thousands of users, even though there are around 100 million Chrome users. The idea is to have a directory of apps that go well with certain websites, exposed through a Chrome extension that then informs users if…

My challenge now is to grow the userbase of MetaExtension itself, otherwise this would become one of those forgotten apps and fail to fulfill its promise. Besides just throwing the app out there on the Chrome store and hoping for installs, I'm also trying to create linkbait-type pages targeted to certain websites. I did one for Digg and HN now as first tests. Digg was total failure, not one person besides myself even…

I've missed similar functionality since I switched from Chrome to Firefox (although for Firefox it was actually looking up user-scripts, which I guess is largely the same as Chrome extensions).

Good job. Checking it out.

Re: Useful apps for Hacker News

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Post by trezor »

Some (constructive) criticism of the db so far. I do realize that it's (at the moment) manually curated, but I still think it applies:

* Twitter. One of the biggest websites out there right now, that also includes number of extensions only have 2 listed.

* Facebook has 5. Disconnect or Facebook cleaner is however not among them.

* Gmail. Lots of extensions. Most fall within 2 categories and fullfill mostly the same purposes. If these are manually curated, why not do some editorialization? Makes it easier for me as an end-user to chose, and ultimately find value in your extension.

* Reddit. It shows one extension and that is a general extension for blocking social link stuff from external pages. How about all the other extensions? Votes, Inbox-checker, etc? I found them via a quick google.

I guess if this extension takes of (and you make it obvious how to submit recommendations), you will need to automate more of the process, or you will be drowned in extensions people feel are missing. That and SPAM.

Re: Useful apps for Hacker News

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Post by demosthe »

I love how if you click on one the Android links from within Chrome (or, indeed, simply browse to: https://market.android.com/ with Chrome) You will get a giant red SSL warning saying that the site is misrepresenting itself and is really .google.com! hilarious.

This is probably not the site you are looking for! You attempted to reach market.android.com, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as .google.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of market.android.com. You should not proceed.

Re: Useful apps for Hacker News

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Post by pamelafox »

I'm not seeing HN HideIt on there: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dibillbafbngeiloeh...

That's an extension I just installed, and I quite like it. Amongst other things, it lets me hide articles on the front page that I've already seen or don't want to revisit, so I am more efficient at finding new articles later (and don't keep re-scanning old ones).

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