very cool. I'd love to see a list of tags that other people use.
FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed
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Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed
#22Doesn'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…
Why an old browser for Hacker News, where fully 70% of the submissions are live demos of new technology, which require the latest version of a modern browser to use? It's like entering your Prius in a rally race.
Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed
#23Hi 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.
It would be handy if there was a volume limit: three posts per day, or one, or one a week.
Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed
#24Doesn'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…
Why an old browser for Hacker News, where fully 70% of the submissions are live demos of new technology, which require the latest version of a modern browser to use? It's like entering your Prius in a rally race.
70%? Really? The front page is right now filled with text articles from wsj, forbes, cnbc, stackexchange, ibm, aljezeera, techcrunch, drdobbs, ....
It's like driving your Prius to watch a rally race. Works great.
Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed
#25Is it possible to exclude specific things? E.g. "50+ -groupon -climate".
I'd also love this ability.
Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Yes, true, but I don't go click on much. Anything potentially interesting I actually forward to another machine that's more secure and look at it there. There really isn't much joy in trying to hack that older machine.
It's so old, most attack vectors don't work anymore anyway. And I have other protection in place that I won't discuss.
Re: FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed
#27Very nice UI! Simple and easy to use, well done.