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Tell HN: Scratching my own itch: HN new comments highlight

18 points by adn37 16y ago

There's been a lot of interesting long threads lately and I feel it's difficult to keep track of new comments after a few hours/days. I've written a GreaseMonkey script that allows to instantly view new comments since your last visit. Hope it helps. More info and source: http://github.com/adn37/HNCommentsHighlight

ritonlajoie 16y ago
Hi. Talking about this topic, there is SmartPeople (http://nasr.ath.cx http://nasr.ath.cx) which lets you subscribe to HN users and threads. You'll then receive any new comment made by any user, by e-mail. The same for the new comments made on a particular thread.
- adn37 16y ago
  Interesting, I missed that one. Though I hope somehow comments are pooled before sending, otherwise this would really be overkill for major threads.
  - ritonlajoie 16y ago
    comments are checked every 20 minutes, it's working pretty fine afaik :) (disclaimer : i did it)
whyleyc 16y ago
Cicky: http://github.com/adn37/HNCommentsHighlight http://github.com/adn37/HNCommentsHighlight
grep 16y ago
It doesn't seem to work very well here.
- adn37 16y ago
  Ironically, no
akkartik 16y ago
An impromptu code jam on the subject from 3 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65307 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65307
MichaelSalib 16y ago
It is not working consistently for me. Maybe one of every ten page views will I see the UI.
wvl 16y ago
I built this functionality into a Safari and Chrome extension, that also pairs nicely with the alternative interface I built: http://hckrnews.com/about.html http://hckrnews.com/about.html
- bryanlarsen 16y ago
  Now the question is: why didn't your original announcement (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552545 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552545) ever make the front page? It looks like a nice interface that you put a lot of work into and would be useful to many people...
  - maushu 16y ago
    Luck. People forget that luck is also important for success. You might have awesome skills but bad luck and fail, while someone else might have mediocre skills but great luck and succeed.

18 points by adn37 16y ago

ritonlajoie 16y ago

Hi. Talking about this topic, there is SmartPeople (http://nasr.ath.cx http://nasr.ath.cx) which lets you subscribe to HN users and threads. You'll then receive any new comment made by any user, by e-mail. The same for the new comments made on a particular thread.

adn37 16y ago
Interesting, I missed that one. Though I hope somehow comments are pooled before sending, otherwise this would really be overkill for major threads.
- ritonlajoie 16y ago
  comments are checked every 20 minutes, it's working pretty fine afaik :) (disclaimer : i did it)

whyleyc 16y ago

Cicky: http://github.com/adn37/HNCommentsHighlight http://github.com/adn37/HNCommentsHighlight

grep 16y ago

It doesn't seem to work very well here.

adn37 16y ago
Ironically, no

akkartik 16y ago

An impromptu code jam on the subject from 3 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65307 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65307

MichaelSalib 16y ago

It is not working consistently for me. Maybe one of every ten page views will I see the UI.

wvl 16y ago

I built this functionality into a Safari and Chrome extension, that also pairs nicely with the alternative interface I built: http://hckrnews.com/about.html http://hckrnews.com/about.html

bryanlarsen 16y ago
Now the question is: why didn't your original announcement (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552545 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552545) ever make the front page? It looks like a nice interface that you put a lot of work into and would be useful to many people...
- maushu 16y ago
  Luck. People forget that luck is also important for success. You might have awesome skills but bad luck and fail, while someone else might have mediocre skills but great luck and succeed.