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HackRSS - browse HN posts visually
- instakill 15y agoQuite cool, but the titles shouldn't be cut.
- bgraves 15y agoI agree. This is more of a proof-of-concept / demo of the url2png api. If the post looks interesting to you, just hover over the image thumbnail to view the title.
- scrrr 15y agoNicely done but I find the default view much easier to navigate. A JavaScript-switch between default and with pictures would be nice though.
- bgraves 15y agoperhaps a Google Instant Preview style extension where you hover over the default view link and a screenshot is displayed on the side? That would be a great browser extension!
- petercooper 15y agoI usually enjoy visual browsers like this, but here the previews are too small for it to click for me. Just to provide a counterexample, this one is pretty cool and along similar lines: http://news.peepcode.com/ http://news.peepcode.com/
- url2png 15y agoAsk and ye shall receive bigger screenshots.
- xtacy 15y agoExcellent! And I love the browsing and picture in picture recursion: HackRSS -> HackRSS :-)
- chippy 15y agoall I can see is a gray box for the hackrss screenshot
- firefoxNX11 15y ago:)
- mmahemoff 15y agoThis kind of UI would work well on other HN-like sites, e.g. links to pretty web designs, but the nature of HN links means the screenshots are almost all the same thing: an article, a possible image, some ads or links on the side. Because of the extra space taken up by screenshots, the most important thing - link title - has to be truncated, and it's not showing vote/comment counts. It's always good to experiment with UIs, but in this case, I think the experiment shows the UI is more suited to other kinds of links.
- ducuboy 15y agoCould not fork. The repository's default branch is empty.
- url2png 15y agoSomebody let the cat out of the bag a bit early. Watch the repo and you'll be notified when we commit v1.
- kilian 15y agoI think url2png is really cool, but I was a bit pissed when from one day to the next they went to a subscription model and added sign-up links to all screenshots. Their fair right, of course, but no fun if you just started using it.
- url2png 15y agoJust send us an email, we'll help you out.
- kilian 15y agoThanks, will do! :)
- rokhayakebe 15y agoI have been using the service for over 3 months and I remember telling the founder I would pay for it. Well. looks like I am going to send my check now :). Gladly.
- kilian 15y agoJust a small update: The url2png guys helped me out! Thanks again guys :)
- doki_pen 15y agoA little competition for http://hn.embed.ly http://hn.embed.ly? Heh. We think rich data makes much better previews then screenshots. What does HN think about this site vs. hn.embed.ly?
- Hovertruck 15y agoI think this would benefit greatly from some sort of collapse feature. The nice thing about browsing titles-only ("vanilla") HN is that things that I don't want to read take up very minimal screen space. With this, I had to work too hard to scroll past this entry: http://i.imgur.com/Z9t67.png http://i.imgur.com/Z9t67.png
- deno 15y agoYou can navigate using keyboard (j/k).
- unfasten 15y agoYou can also fold the article with 'd', and show the top comment with 'c'. Shift+C opens the comment thread too. Pressing '?' will bring up a box that lists all the shortcuts: j or → Select next article k or ← Select previous article c Toggle Hacker News top comment shift + c Open Hacker News comments page in a new window d Toggle article content enter Follow the article link in this window shift + enter Follow the article link in a new window ? Show this keyboard shortcuts dialog
- url2png 15y agoIt takes all types to make the world go round. Lets do lunch.
- hkuo 15y agoPerhaps a feature like this could bring the best of all worlds. The ability for anyone to change the view to fit how they want to browse. http://i.imgur.com/KdOR5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/KdOR5.jpg
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- _ankit_ 15y agoHow is this useful? I agree with bgraves, it is more of a proof-of-concept of url2png.
- mopatches 15y agoHere's a search experience for you, same idea: http://hnsearch.heroku.com/ http://hnsearch.heroku.com/ :)
- jinushaun 15y agoVisually appealing, but needs longer titles and link to HN comments. I usually find the comments more enjoyable to read than the source articles.
- recoiledsnake 15y agoCan we have a place that lists all the HN related sites? Or maybe PG can create such a page and link it at the top/bottom. That would be useful instead of them getting lost in the old posts and people who haven't seen the posts missing them.
- wvl 15y agohttp://hnresources.com/ http://hnresources.com/ is one.
- rokhayakebe 15y agoVery well done. I would like to also see this done for various news feed (maybe most popular links on Twitter/Facebook). EDIT: Happy user of URL2PNG.
- matmann2001 15y agoI love the concept, but I'd rather have the links open in the same window. Just change your target attributes and I will switch over to this solution permanently.
- url2png 15y agoAgreed and done. Be sure to bookmark it though. ;)
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- Sukotto 15y agoI love the recursion when it reaches the "HackRSS - browse HN posts visually" post in the feed :) Any chance you could include more of the title text and the link to the comments?
- micheljansen 15y agoKudos for Droste effect of HackRSS showing the HackRSS post showing HackRSS showing the HackRSS post.
- JCB_K 15y agoI worked on something similar to this a couple of months back: http://hackernewsbot.posterous.com http://hackernewsbot.posterous.com. Never finished it though.
- plnewman 15y agoCool. I would love to be able to scroll through this using the j and k keys, like Google Reader or http://ffffound.com/ http://ffffound.com/.
- GrooveStomp 15y agoWell, I looked. It was not obvious how to view the comments, so I probably won't ever go back. Sorry, them's the apples.
- orenmazor 15y agovery cool. I've always wanted this. and now that we have this, I realize that the end result is that I will now end up reading articles that have nice designs. i.e. judging by the cover.