Yes!!! Now I can make my HN app! I don't like the ones that are on the market now (on Android platform)
Hacker News API
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Nice app! Is login broken though?
Oh, thanks for the reminder. I fixed it a few days ago and did a staged rollout but forgot to push it to everyone. I've done that so it should update for you soon.
It works now, thanks! One side question: why is your hamburger (icon) a Double-Double (http://www.in-n-out.com/mobile/double-double.aspx)?
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It would be interesting to redo the top karma list by comment karma only. It would also be interesting to look at liberal vs conservative political sentiment over time. I feel like the site has gotten more liberal over the years, especially after all the Chelsea Manning stuff, but not sure if that is accurate.
I actually have the list of top users by comment karma: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ws2VK-UB7IQpVUZgPZ9M... I also included the number of thread wins (user made comment with highest number of points in a given submission thread) to see if there was any unusual relationship. There wasn't: correlation is 0.89. I ended up not including it in the article because it's long enough as-is. :P
Is that top overall karma users, but then sorted by comment karma, or is that actually top comment karma users?
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I'd like to know the average hourly amount earned from HN. I know personally HN has helped me greatly in the projects I do at work.
Yes this is an interesting question too, but one that is much harder to answer. I love HN, but it sure gets a lot of activity during work hours :)
HN has not helped me with any projects.
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Or use my Hacker News client for Windows Phone: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/hacker-news/a527...
Great you're here. I'm using this app, but I'm sorry to say this... It's pretty bad. Here's a list of issues that I encounter very often: - It often crashes during startup - There are massive encoding issues, I see question mark symbols pretty often. - Comments often won't load, without any error message whatsoever. I uninstalled the app multiple times for these reasons, but unfortunately there isn't anything that's…
Would you be willing to beta test my application? It's pretty much finished already and doesn't have any of the issues you listed (in addition to having a, in my opinion, much nicer design), I'd just be looking for some general feedback regarding the discoverability of some features. I could submit a beta today or tomorrow.
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#266Oh man you guys, patio11 has generated massive amounts of content: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/patio11.json?prin... I count 8,483 submissions. I'm sure there's something interesting to be done with all of this data. A word frequency chart? --- Edit: So apparently there's a ruby gem that lets you feed it a body of text and generates pseudo-random phrases based on that text. I present to you the patio11…
Another frequent contributor, edw519, has published an ebook of his or her comments: http://hn.my/edw519
his or her comments
The book is copyrighted by Ed Weissman, so although it's possible "Ed" is short for "Edna," the higher probability can be assigned to "his" in this case.
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Great you're here. I'm using this app, but I'm sorry to say this... It's pretty bad. Here's a list of issues that I encounter very often: - It often crashes during startup - There are massive encoding issues, I see question mark symbols pretty often. - Comments often won't load, without any error message whatsoever. I uninstalled the app multiple times for these reasons, but unfortunately there isn't anything that's…
Would you be willing to beta test my application? It's pretty much finished already and doesn't have any of the issues you listed (in addition to having a, in my opinion, much nicer design), I'd just be looking for some general feedback regarding the discoverability of some features. I could submit a beta today or tomorrow.
I would love that. Invite me at leoncullens @ live . nl
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#268Glad to see there is an API. What about the ability to delete accounts? Why do I have to beg to delete an account?
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#269The Firebase JavaScript library makes make this impressively straightforward to use. I built a clone using React.js and Firebase's library. Because v0 of the API requires a request for each news story, it's not possible to use Firebase's React mixin yet. https://github.com/ssorallen/hackernews-react
Here's another React version which also does comments (and allows you to fold them - I needed to write a userscript for that before!). It's using react-router to switch between top stories, comments, individual comment and user profile pages.
http://insin.github.io/react-hn
I've just gone for it with Firebase's React mixin, binding everything as an object, since their devs in this thread don't seem concerned about rate limiting. The mixin seems to throw an error every time I try to unbind, which I'm just catching and logging for now.
Edit: I just watched this comment pop up live in my version - pretty neat :)
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#270I managed to take a picture when this got 1337 upvotes.
