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At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]
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- dudurocha 16y agoOMG, this is amazing. Very funny! And you can actually say " there must be a bug here, i just cant find", and read everthing.
- DTrejo 16y ago"This code is really bad, I need to refactor it because there's so much repetition."
- Smirnoff 16y agohonestly we need a mobile app for hn. somebody?
- bmelton 16y agoThere are quite a few on the Android market and there is at least one on the iTunes market.
- otherwise 16y agohttp://ihackernews.com http://ihackernews.com
- Smirnoff 16y agoThanks a lot. Do you know the IRC channel for hn by any chance? I saw somebody mentioning it but never got to write it down.
- ilconsigliere 16y agoUsed to be some discussion in #startups @ irc.freenode.net, not sure if it's still active
- marcomonteiro 16y agoI've only been on HN for a few weeks but I also was hoping for a good mobile app. I was using Flipboard on the iPad at first but I felt cut off without the comments.
- jdp23 16y agoThis is great. But why isn't it async?
- NinetyNine 16y agoThe only way I can see to do it is constantly scraping HN's pages(unless there's an API?). On another note, having source code on your screen randomly shift and change large blocks of itself might be suspicious, defeating the purpose of this.
- Xuzz 16y agoThere is not an official API. However, there is a partially complete API available from the guy who made iHackerNews at http://api.ihackernews.com/ http://api.ihackernews.com/ -- it works well, but stuff like voting is disabled.
- scythe 16y agoHe was joking about the comment "//why isn't this async?" which appears in every entry.
- NinetyNine 16y agoOh, I seem to have missed that.
- Luyt 16y agoI'd like some code that writes itself ;-)
- mattdeboard 16y agoBravo, this is extremely clever.
- aeter 16y agoIt's awesome. It would be great to be able to read the HN comments like that too.
- famousactress 16y agoOh, sad. (That people need this). Clever, though.
- thenduks 16y agoThought the same thing. At work I'm encouraged to be active online in places like HN and to read relevant articles and so on.
- sova 16y agoThat's awesome. Does it make you a better coder?
- famousactress 16y agoMe too.. I'm sort of the HN-rep for our group.. and yeah, it's good for me as a coder and for us as a group to keep in touch with what's happening in the tech world.
- thenduks 16y agoAbsolutely. I'm not sure how following the industry and contributing to open source projects could not make you better programmer.
- kirpekar 16y agoVery cool. Helpful too. Thanks!
- dnot 16y agothis is great! is there a 'next' button? Did I just not see it?
- rajasharan 16y agoThere was a similar one for Reddit in C# style. Nice.
- uxp 16y agoThat was http://codereddit.com/ http://codereddit.com/
- sawyer 16y agoI wonder if someone could learn Node simply by browsing HN in this format for a few weeks.
- lhnz 16y agoThis is exactly the same way I think, too. I mean, you don't learn everything when not putting effort in but familiarising yourself with a new technology is half the battle.
- joezydeco 16y agoHow about one that looks like a spreadsheet?
- invisiblefunnel 16y agoTBS did something like that with a 'panic button' http://hiplipblog.com/2010/11/09/hit-the-tbs-panic-button/ http://hiplipblog.com/2010/11/09/hit-the-tbs-panic-button/
- jaffoneh 16y agoWell, they have ads (http://i.imgur.com/JD69B.png http://i.imgur.com/JD69B.png) so I don't know if that "panic button" actually works ...
- ericz 16y agoHere's the Github: https://github.com/ericz/CodeHN https://github.com/ericz/CodeHN
- trotsky 16y agoAt work? Yup, and that means I have a pretty restrictive firewall. Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081 <----
- eru 16y agoGet yourself a proxy.
- jmatt 16y agoOne way to proxy is through ssh. Create an ssh tunnel to a trusted machine and setup your browser to use localhost:<ssh tunnel port>: http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunnel http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunne... This is a decent example. I've seen others that have more options and presumably more functionality. A few notes from past experiences. Your IT department will completely freak out. Hopefully they'll also be impressed. HR will freak out worse because they won't understand. A good IT employee will come see what the heck is up with your ssh throughput to a weird vps or home box - befriend this person if you haven't already. Average code-monkeys will be impressed, especially if you don't do web development. Finally, it's almost certainly a violation of that 20 page agreement you signed on the first day of work.
- eru 16y agoYes, ssh works fine. For your browser: I use tsocks, so I don't have to muck around with browser settings. I have such a setup for accessing Pandora at work. We are in the UK, so we have to trick Pandora into thinking I'm from the US. Nobody at work cares.
- bmunro 16y agoWhere I work, we have to ssh tunnel. Our cvs, bug tracker, internal websites and other servers are all located on the other side of the world, and only accessible through a tunnel.
- michael_michael 16y ago
- Osiris 16y agoI laughed out loud when I clicked on that link. (Un)fortunately for me, I work from home so I don't have anyone checking over my shoulder.
- idlewords 16y agoAt work? Try working!
- siedrix 16y agoOr try getting a new work...
- va1en0k 16y agoor (better) a new job (I hope I understand the difference between these words)
- danudey 16y ago'Work' is sometimes used to mean 'office' or 'job'. For example, someone might say 'Why don't you drop by my work after lunch?' I think that's the usage the parent meant; possibly, it was an intentionally awkward but colloquially valid variation on the grandparent's post.
- NathanKP 16y agoI would imagine that a fairly large percentage of the Hacker News community probably works for themselves or as freelance contractors. The main problem is not that of hiding your browsing from an employer, but having the self control to work rather than browsing.
- otherwise 16y agoWith 100 upvotes in the first hour, I would imagine a fairly large percentage of the Hacker News community thinks this is useful. Or (more likely) funny.
- scythe 16y agoIt's not just amusing -- it's a clever, unique and interesting solution to a common problem, however pyrrhic[1] the victory might be. [1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
- famousactress 16y agoThat's actually a question I've had for a while.. Someone should start a poll ( I don't know how )
- jey 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
- evlapix 16y agoThis is probably for the sector of HN that hasn't quite gotten their yet.
- stuhacking 16y agoThis is probably aimed at the subset of HN readers that haven't quite made it yet.
- yuhong 16y agoYea, managing by treating people as dumb automatons is fundementally flawed.
- marcomonteiro 16y agoEspecially the "thinking" type of people they desperately try to hire.
- johng 16y agoVery cool :)
- abraham 16y agoThe require('http') has an extra ; after it.
- ericz 16y agoFixed =]
- aidenn0 16y agoIf I worked at a place where I felt that reading HN would get me fired, there would be lots of other problems.
- techtalsky 16y agoIt's not really about reading HN getting you fired, it's just about perception management. People walk behind my desk. I'm salaried and so free to manage my time, but some people like the CTO are kind of peep-ey. I'd rather minimize the number of times someone who might care walks by and I'm doing something non-worky. Once a bad perception happens, it's hard to counteract it, so it's better to just work a little to manage it. If I have something I can use to kill time while I'm blocked on something, while not worrying about how it looks, I kind of appreciate it.
- shawnee_ 16y agoGood idea. Better idea - YC news from the console: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/follow-hacker-news-from-the-console http://www.catonmat.net/blog/follow-hacker-news-from-the-con... And, for old timers, there's always lynx.
- mcorrientes 16y agonode.js looks really sexy, can't wait to become stable enough for a productive system.
- ChuckMcM 16y agoI really enjoyed this, its an excellent UX pun. If you could use enough javascript to make it look like an emacs buffer some pointy haired types would be hard pressed to discern between this and actual work. That being said, if you are truly into employee surveillance (and I know of at least one company that is) then what the screen shows is irrelevant since the http{s} traffic between your work station and the world is just as clear without having to 'walk around and look into your cube.' Total kudos to the skinning though, I really enjoyed it.
- kin 16y agoFunny, but my boss is also a hacker and now recognizes this =(
- huge_ness 16y agonow working for me! for some reason it's pushing to http://ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/ http://ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/ and not nowjs.com
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- malvim 16y agoDidn't even know these guidelines existed, but it was fun to read: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." Heh.
- jey 16y agoTouche.
- michuk 16y agoNice! But it doesn't beat the Jabber client embedded as an Excel macro I used while working for a bank.
- redredraider 16y agoThis is awesome. Someone port it to my circa 1994 cobol compiler and I'll be set.
- koko775 16y agoHa! I see what you did there, eric. http://i.imgur.com/WAwRx.jpg http://i.imgur.com/WAwRx.jpg
- Jasonp 16y agoThis is hilarious. Not sure about useful, but hilarious - yes.
- mirkules 16y agoThis reminds me of the "boss key" in video games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key) Nicely done!
- snissn 16y agoI'd be concerned about getting fired for using node.js..
- thomasfl 16y agoFinally something useful hacker news. I have been reading way to much hacker news lately, and my colleagues have started to take notice. Next month I hope someone could make a html source code theme for hacker news.
- BrandonM 16y agoRight-click -> View Page Source in Firefox
- martinkallstrom 16y agoDude, nice!
- dacort 16y agoI really wanted to be able to upvote from that interface.
- vs2 16y agoec2 is blocked in my company!
- dbuizert 16y agoWhy would you get fired over browsing websites that fall within the set guidelines by your employer? If a website like HN doesn't fit in there, you got screwed over and time to find a new job. An employee should have the freedom to browse the web with limited restrictions. If that is not the case then it is a violation of the employees creativity and could hurt the employer in the long run since his/her employees are bound to limited creativity on the job sight.
- yread 16y agoOrdinary folk (non-programmer's) already have this http://myprogressbar.com/ http://myprogressbar.com/
- MatthewRayfield 16y agoReminds me of the Ghostzilla project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostzilla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostzilla
- brianr 16y agoTo read in vim: curl http://ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/ | vim -
- growingconcern 16y agoNow I just need a reddit version!
- autoreverse 16y agoMy version in HTML/JS (click the license to toggle HN) http://autoreverse.s3.amazonaws.com/mit_yc_plain_text.html http://autoreverse.s3.amazonaws.com/mit_yc_plain_text.html
- kranner 16y agoAlt-B!
- sgentle 16y agoCool site. :) You've got a bug on Ask HN posts, though, where you get a relative URL from HN (/comments/blah) which ends up relative to your site rather than news.yc.
- frazerb 16y agoI spend most of my day talking with customers and reviewing contracts etc.. As much as I would love to, I think if my boss caught me looking at code like this he would fire me !
- athom 16y agoSo we need to come up with one that looks like a contract, maybe? If I weren't trying to get away and do WBC differentials...
- atlantic 16y agoSomeone came up with a very similar solution for Reddit a short while ago: http://codereddit.com http://codereddit.com. Not to say that this is plagiarism; great minds often think alike.
- boneheadmed 16y agoFreakin' funny. Love it!