Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018

Post by jgtrosh » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 11:37 PM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #37

alehul wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you click on the images, it'll open to the actual comment in text form. While load times for images are worse, this format provides some handy advantages, namely the ability to look through that thread and see more context, read the related article, etc.

No advantages that a css/html rendered version of the same thing doesn't have, with the loss of accessibility that you'd get using the alternative approach. This is just "the easy way out". Justifying it otherwise is wrong, in my opinion...

Post by saagarjha » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 12:02 AM UTC

huangc10 wrote: post #38

rolleiflex wrote: post #10

I did not intend to read this from beginning to the end. Talk about a sticky article. Consider quoting the text directly though. Making images of text is probably the most inaccessible thing imaginable. Should take less than a hundred lines of CSS to create a believable HN container in a div.

Not that I'm for screen shot, I imagine they wrote a quick script that went through a list of links to the comment and produced the screenshot (which also resized the height of the window to fit the full comment). The script probably utilized an integration with a screen capture library. I'd imagine someone can write a script to parse html and dig out the comment, but the screen capture script was probably faster to…

Post by nickpsecurity » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 12:56 AM UTC

rolleiflex wrote: post #10

I did not intend to read this from beginning to the end. Talk about a sticky article. Consider quoting the text directly though. Making images of text is probably the most inaccessible thing imaginable. Should take less than a hundred lines of CSS to create a believable HN container in a div.

Post by gkoberger » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 4:41 AM UTC

citilife wrote: post #4

My personal favorite (which I was involved in), was people willing to openly test one my applications: https://twitter.com/AustinGWalters/status/104189476543920128... It was fun / exciting to see it work, plus from all the emails I got there was a lot of interest. I personally enjoy the collaborative nature of Hacker News, although these posts are also interesting and highlight the breadth of knowledge here. From the…

Post by csunbird » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 7:50 AM UTC

rmason wrote: post #23

Thank you so much for doing this for the community. I recognized a few comments that I'd read previously but a lot of them were new. I can't read everything simply because I've got lines of code to write in between multiple visits to HN daily!