Instead of screenshotting, I'd love it if HN comments were embeddable like social media posts. Wouldn't it be a minimal project to extend the HN codebase for it?
Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
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Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#52I 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.
Sharing the image retains attribution and source. Sharing the text alone opens channels of abuse and lack of context... I like this option more, personally.
I think the idea was reproducing the same visual as the image (attribution and all) but using HTML/CSS instead.
A good example is Raymond Chen's blog The Old New Thing; just look at the Windows dialog in this post: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20181016-00/?p=... It's all pure HTML.
Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#53The computer-crashing portfolio comment was hilarious! (Hadn't seen that one myself.)
They didn't pick the best comment from the thread on bad codebases, but that whole discussion was ... enlightening.
Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#54I kinda did the same with all of my favorite comments (not including screenshots on my desktop/my phone) and compiled what should be a pretty good guide for me. But if I have to put another quote in: It's hard to act according to my knowledge/thinking. https://raihansaputra.com/hn-wisdom/
Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#55Also needs mention: N-gate.com
Re: Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can subscribe to receive the emails. I do and often there's pretty interesting stuff in there.
Is the subscribe link at the bottom of that page specifically for this type of stuff? There is nothing visually connecting that to the article and it only uses the vague phrase "updates from Y Combinator". I am one of those HN users who comes here for the tech topics much more than the startup topics. I therefore don't have much interest in Y Combinator outside of being thankful that they host this site. I don't real…
There's an RSS/Atom feed, so you could set up a filter in IFTTT or a similar app or service.