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17 points by melvinroest 6y ago

melvinroest 6y ago
Hey, I quickly made this Chrome plugin in an hour or so to get all HN comments on one page. I hope there happen to be better versions of this out there, which is why I opened this thread to start a discussion about it. And if there aren't any alternatives, then let's improve this together!
- mtmail 6y ago
  There's a couple of Chrome extensions on https://github.com/adriel/awesome-hacker-news#browser-extensions https://github.com/adriel/awesome-hacker-news#browser-extens...
  - egfx 6y ago
    Forked from https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news
  - FnControlOption 6y ago
    Imagine a future where we could put our code into a search engine and then get back apps/programs that have similar functionality...
    - rkhassen9 6y ago
      We used to have it, and it was glorious, until Google tooketh away: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search It was amazing to see similar code and to see how they approached things. Of course, if only really worked with snippets, but as a learner it was truly amazing. I really wonder if they kept it for internal use.
      - deleted 6y ago
        [deleted]
      - beliu 6y ago
        If you're looking for a GCS replacement, Sourcegraph is a thing! We've taken a lot of inspiration from Google Code Search (both the public version and the internal version which was even better): https://sourcegraph.com https://sourcegraph.com
- pvg 6y ago
  The best alternative is probably just not-doing that - the reason for the page splits is the performance of the HN back-end and hitting the site for all the follow-on pages might make the problem worse, not better.
  - melvinroest 6y ago
    Fair point, thanks for mentioning. I'll make a toggle in mine then, as I want it on a select few pages, but not on others.
wackget 6y ago
Would be nice if the Github repo had an explanation of what it actually is.
- melvinroest 6y ago
  Fair enough, I was hoping this HN discussion was enough. I wanted my code to be a discussion piece, or a starting point to improve. I don't think it's that usable for many people.
  - Akronymus 6y ago
    > I wanted my code to be a discussion piece, or a starting point to improve. Easy improvement: A readme.md It'd be much easier to grasp what it is trying to achieve if it actually were described.
anonu 6y ago
Sounds like if enough people use this then they should just make it the default. Or give people a user setting.
- wolfgang42 6y ago
  The ‘More’ link is apparently required due to server load; dang has stated that he’d like to get rid of it as soon as he can fix the underlying performance problems: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=author%3Adang%20more%20performance&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
  - gremlinsinc 6y ago
    why not autoload it on scroll... like after you get past 75% or something? Many sites have never-ending scrollers, FB as an example and you'd think as big as YC is they could afford someone who can figure out endless scrolling.
    - wolfgang42 6y ago
      Endless scrolling was specifically rejected [1], and given how vociferous the HN community can be about such things I don’t blame them. Also, comments can shift from page to page as their ranking changes, so a naïve implementation would end up with duplicates (for comments that fell down past the page boundary before the next page loaded) and missing items (for comments that rose up), and a more sophisticated implementation probably wouldn’t be worth the effort for something they want to get rid of. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291
- melvinroest 6y ago
  For me, the use-case is pretty rare when I'd want it. But I do want it ;-) I mostly want it when I simply want to CTRL + F the whole thread on certain keywords. I'll create a toggle to minimize server load.

17 points by melvinroest 6y ago

Hey, I quickly made this Chrome plugin in an hour or so to get all HN comments on one page. I hope there happen to be better versions of this out there, which is why I opened this thread to start a discussion about it. And if there aren't any alternatives, then let's improve this together!

mtmail 6y ago
There's a couple of Chrome extensions on https://github.com/adriel/awesome-hacker-news#browser-extensions https://github.com/adriel/awesome-hacker-news#browser-extens...
- egfx 6y ago
  Forked from https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news
- FnControlOption 6y ago
  Imagine a future where we could put our code into a search engine and then get back apps/programs that have similar functionality...
  - rkhassen9 6y ago
    We used to have it, and it was glorious, until Google tooketh away: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search It was amazing to see similar code and to see how they approached things. Of course, if only really worked with snippets, but as a learner it was truly amazing. I really wonder if they kept it for internal use.
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
    - beliu 6y ago
      If you're looking for a GCS replacement, Sourcegraph is a thing! We've taken a lot of inspiration from Google Code Search (both the public version and the internal version which was even better): https://sourcegraph.com https://sourcegraph.com
pvg 6y ago
The best alternative is probably just not-doing that - the reason for the page splits is the performance of the HN back-end and hitting the site for all the follow-on pages might make the problem worse, not better.
- melvinroest 6y ago
  Fair point, thanks for mentioning. I'll make a toggle in mine then, as I want it on a select few pages, but not on others.

wackget 6y ago

Would be nice if the Github repo had an explanation of what it actually is.

melvinroest 6y ago
Fair enough, I was hoping this HN discussion was enough. I wanted my code to be a discussion piece, or a starting point to improve. I don't think it's that usable for many people.
- Akronymus 6y ago
  > I wanted my code to be a discussion piece, or a starting point to improve. Easy improvement: A readme.md It'd be much easier to grasp what it is trying to achieve if it actually were described.

anonu 6y ago

Sounds like if enough people use this then they should just make it the default. Or give people a user setting.

wolfgang42 6y ago
The ‘More’ link is apparently required due to server load; dang has stated that he’d like to get rid of it as soon as he can fix the underlying performance problems: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=author%3Adang%20more%20performance&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- gremlinsinc 6y ago
  why not autoload it on scroll... like after you get past 75% or something? Many sites have never-ending scrollers, FB as an example and you'd think as big as YC is they could afford someone who can figure out endless scrolling.
  - wolfgang42 6y ago
    Endless scrolling was specifically rejected [1], and given how vociferous the HN community can be about such things I don’t blame them. Also, comments can shift from page to page as their ranking changes, so a naïve implementation would end up with duplicates (for comments that fell down past the page boundary before the next page loaded) and missing items (for comments that rose up), and a more sophisticated implementation probably wouldn’t be worth the effort for something they want to get rid of. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291
melvinroest 6y ago
For me, the use-case is pretty rare when I'd want it. But I do want it ;-) I mostly want it when I simply want to CTRL + F the whole thread on certain keywords. I'll create a toggle to minimize server load.