My favorite continues to be http://hackerwebapp.com/ but this has some nice features as well.
An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
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Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#52I use StyleBot to customize HN's stylesheet:
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#53It would be nice to collapse or skip all replies to a parent, do any of these extensions do that? I often find some discussion that is uninteresting to me (but might be others for others) and just want to easily get past it. If it is long, it takes some time to find where the indention matches-up many PGDNs below.
If you want to add collapsible comment threads without changing anything else about the site, "Hacker News Collapse" is the extension for that --
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...
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#54Is there something that lets me fold/hide comments that I have already read (like on Reddit)?
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#55It needs HTTPS.
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#56Comparing the lists between new.ycombinator.com and www.hckrnews.com some articles on top 10 on the first are missing on the second is that intended and I didn't understand how it works?
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#57I used to use this interface, but then I noticed a bug (or interesting feature, depending on your point of view) in that when you were viewing the top 10 or top 20, and loaded more articles, some articles would disappear from the list. My theory on this is that it was caused by loading articles a certain number of hours back from the current time, and then grouping by day before sorting to the top X. For example, if…
Sorry if I never got back to you about this. There were definitely some bugs around the filtering / content loading. I _think_ they've been resolved for a while now, so I hope you'll give it another shot.
No problem. I definitely will, because I'm enough of a completist in general that it bothers me when feel I've missed something that looks interesting, and I'm already seeing that again. Well done, you've created something that immediately triggers (because I can see what I was missing) and alleviates (because I can check what I missed) my obsessive behavior over HN. Next step, profit as I throw money at you... ;)
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#58I prefer http://lessmeme.com/less.html because it lets me quickly see which items are new.
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#59I like this one, everything in one place:
http://georgenava.appspot.com/demo/hn/index.html
* Mockup, nothing works.
Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
#60Since people are mentioning various other HN interfaces they use, I'd highly recommend to check out Georgify — https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...
I second that. Love love love it.