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Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by xerophtye »

danmaz74 wrote: post #21
molecule wrote: post #4

I've been using this for awhile now as my primary HN front-page interface, for several reasons: - easier to read - mobile-browser friendly - auto refreshes - preserves articles that make it to the front page, and in (reverse) order of the time they made it to the front page, so no need to constantly check the front page and parse all of its contents to see if new articles are posted cf. http://www.hckrnews.com/about.…

I generally like the original interface, but I hate to have to re-scan all the titles in the home page to find out which ones are new. So I built this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-mark-a...

ummm... i thought the "new" button up therer did exactl the same thing

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by danmaz74 »

xerophtye wrote: post #71
danmaz74 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I generally like the original interface, but I hate to have to re-scan all the titles in the home page to find out which ones are new. So I built this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-mark-a...

ummm... i thought the "new" button up therer did exactl the same thing

That button shows you new submissions, even if they got no votes. Pretty different thing!

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by andrewcooke »

eball wrote: post #27
molecule wrote: post #4

I've been using this for awhile now as my primary HN front-page interface, for several reasons: - easier to read - mobile-browser friendly - auto refreshes - preserves articles that make it to the front page, and in (reverse) order of the time they made it to the front page, so no need to constantly check the front page and parse all of its contents to see if new articles are posted cf. http://www.hckrnews.com/about.…

Funny how it still shows the link to the below story that got buried by the flamewar detector. "I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612854

that's a feature. with hckrnews you get to see all the articles, even if they were only on the front page for a short time. for me, that's the biggest advantage it has over the main site.

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by sdfjkl »

I hacked a Greasemonkey script a while ago because I wanted some easy way to pick out vote/comments. I've been using it for many months now and it's not annoyed me once, which is a good sign. It also leaves the rest of HN alone.

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/3G1k2j0w2Q3G

Source: https://gist.github.com/ingmar/5564603

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by deveac »

eternalban wrote: post #77

The (imo quite excellent) hubski.com is built on arc.

I wish I had a screenshot of hubski.com at its inception. Since it began life as a port (albeit with completely different mechanics) the UI was essentially a clone. Quite quickly mk transformed that along with the usually feature and performance iterations to the point where you'd never be able to tell at a glance.

Just celebrated the first 100,000 posts milestone too.

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by eternalban »

deveac wrote: post #78
eternalban wrote: post #77

The (imo quite excellent) hubski.com is built on arc.

I wish I had a screenshot of hubski.com at its inception. Since it began life as a port (albeit with completely different mechanics) the UI was essentially a clone. Quite quickly mk transformed that along with the usually feature and performance iterations to the point where you'd never be able to tell at a glance. Just celebrated the first 100,000 posts milestone too.

mk (et al) have done a great job.

Re: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

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Post by taude »

christiangenco wrote: post #38
pwnna wrote: post #8

I still like http://hn.premii.com

Huh. This would be alright on an iPad, but it doesn't fit my current flow of browsing HN: * skim a page of links * open ~5 interesting links in new tab, open comments if I predict the comments will be interesting * go through tabs, which are already loaded by the time I get there With this strategy, there's not a millisecond of perceived loading time.

Funny, this is almost exactly what I do, though I almost always open both the articles & discussion on articles that catch my eye.
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