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Show HN: Jump to HN – Open hacker news discussion of any article

• gitgud 9y ago
  I like it, but it's not reliable, as I've been going through "The Hacker Classics" and the comments section is not coming up. http://jsomers.net/hn/ http://jsomers.net/hn/ Should show this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888 right?
  • elkali 9y ago
    Yeah it should. There is a slight url mismatch in this particular case. The HN Api response is returning the url without a trailing slash and hence my code is rejecting that result. I will try and fix it. This was just a basic version coded up in a few hours to see if people find this useful at all.
    • gitgud 9y ago
      Woah a couple of hours? cool! It's great to find the hacker news discussion if I'm on a random webpage, I find it very useful :)
      • elkali 9y ago
        Yeah. It's just a single API call and few lines of javascript. I took more time to create screenshots and add descriptions on the chrome store than to code it. Even I find it useful personally and that's why I built it. But it doesn't seem to have piqued HN users' interest or maybe just didn't get enough visibility.
        • gitgud 9y ago
          Could be the title, not sure how you could make it clearer though. Maybe something like this would entice people. Meta News - Detect if a page has a Hacker News discussion