It would be handy if medium.com URLs could include the author somewhere - otherwise it's a bit of a crapshoot as to the quality of what you're about to read.
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#882I know my HN experience is very, very short, but I have a proposition.
It's true you can write anything you want in your profile's "About" section, but is there a possibility to have a little pop-up window that appears when you hover over someone's username? It only shows you their workplace and education because, as far as I've seen, HN isn't attractive to hackers only, there all sorts of people who use this platform and it would be nice to know what is their background, for example, when commenting. It could bring more quality and dynamics to discussions because then you'll know what you can ask others and what are their expertise. I don't want it to become similar to a facebook profile, but the two previously mentioned information lines are far more important than others such as age, location, etc.
There is a chance that this will turn our screen into a popcorn bowl but I think it can be managed by having a little delay or something else.
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#883When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect. (As I type this (4th July 2013) it is present as a mark of respect to Doug Engelbart.)
This invariably confuses new users.
I suggest the thin black bar be the height of a line of text, and it contain the text “R.I.P. Doug Engelbart”. This text could link to an official announcement of the death, or to a HN page discussing such a link. The text should probably be a light shade of grey.
Alternatively, without expanding the thin black bar, the text could appear in the orange header bar, and be coloured black. In this case it should probably be centred between the “submit” link on the left and the username / “login” link on the right.
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#884I am moving all my feeds from RSS to Twitter. Is there a Twitter feed with links to all the new stories that are posted to the RSS feed? I don't see a Twitter link on the web page.
Thx
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#885Add the ability to collapse comments without needing to install the threadify greasemonkey script. It makes comments far easier to read and browse.
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#886I was wondering if something like this would be likeable by users.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6005252
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#887It would be much easier to create services publishing news from ycombinator feed if there was a way to easily get current news scores.
The only way to do it now is to get the front page and to xpath your way down to the score html element. For that I would have to know stories identifiers. Sadly, RSS stopped publishing those recently - it now contains them as a part of href attributes for links leading to comments. Not to say I had to rely on HTML page layout.
Things would be much easier if RSS contained a score for each news item.
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#888Hi,
First off - really like your website. I check it out every day, several times a day! Love it.
One enhancement request - would it be possible for you to have the links open in another window ... what i mean is ...target="_blank"?
Many thanks
Gerard L
devsda0@gmail.com
Re: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
#889Ban RT.com. They're a trashy linkbait tabloid like the dailymail.
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