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Unrealistic. Not a single person complained about link not working with JavaScript disabled.
by input_sh 4y ago
Unrealistic.
Not a single person complained about link not working with JavaScript disabled.
- timeon 4y agoSince it was missing there I realized how am I overusing '[-]' instead of scrolling. Like Tarzan swing on vines. (Also is this relavant or am I just piggy-backing your top comment?)
- nicky0 4y agoIn 10 years of reading hacker news I never thought to press the [-] until this moment.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- hoosieree 4y agoRelevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- tomger 4y agoI always assumed [-] subtracted a point from that comment.
- turbonaut 4y agoDoesn’t [-] set it to zero? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
- RheingoldRiver 4y ago[-] collapses the replies so that you can easily see what's next. On reddit the equivalent functionality is a button literally called "hide child comments." But as another comment mentioned, you can click root | parent | prev | next to get navigated through the thread. Personally, I prefer the collapse, though, as having the top of my screen move without my direct control is a bit jarring, but there's more functionality from these buttons.
- geoduck14 4y agoImportant fact: The [-] does not remove a point. After you get 500 points, you earn the privilege of down voting, you will get a "down triangle" underneath the "up vote up triangle" that you can click on.
- thatwasunusual 4y ago> In 10 years of reading hacker news I never thought to press the [-] until this moment. I thought you had to click the [-]. How do I press the [-]?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- jcpham2 4y agoI don’t understand if I should click or press [-] What does it do?
- _hyn3 4y agoDon't do it! If I understand it correctly, every time you use it, it takes away one of your valuable internet points.
- thatwasunusual 4y agoA friend of mine did this too many times. He is in rehab now. His wife left him, his liberal left kids commited suicide etc. Harsh times.
- thatwasunusual 4y agoHow can you click OR press something?
- kergonath 4y ago> I thought you had to click the [-]. I cannot click anything on my phone.
- starkd 4y agoWow. I just realized the [-] feature. This changes everything about HN!
- anon7725 4y agoAnd I just realized “root|parent|prev|next” despite being ride or die with [-]
- jason-phillips 4y agoI call it the "minimize bullshit" feature. Reddit also has it.
- starkd 4y agoI might actually read more of the top level comments below the first one now.
- jwilk 4y agoKinda relevant, because [-] doesn't work with JS disabled. :-P
- tempodox 4y agoIt could, however, with CSS like this: https://iamkate.com/code/tree-views/ https://iamkate.com/code/tree-views/
- neonihil 4y agoMost useful comment on the whole thread. Thanks for the tip about the [-].
- still_grokking 4y agoIt can be even better. With a little bit more JavaScript. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
- andreareina 4y agoHave you heard about our lord and savior root|parent|prev|next ?
- mdp2021 4y ago> our lord and savior root|parent|prev|next You are welcome! My very small contribution to the system (I asked and "pushed" for it) - of course, Dang and/or his team implemented it. It is pleasant to read about it in such appreciative terms.
- andreareina 4y agoHey that's awesome! They work really, really well for the way I read HN. Thanks for suggesting this, and thanks to 'dang et al for the implementation!
- eternalban 4y agoYou've earned true universe karma points there. Thank you.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI wish they would just rewrite the website in a safe language like Rust.
- aklein 4y agoI have stuff to say about JIT.
- dweekly 4y agoI have a correction to your understanding of JIT.
- rpastuszak 4y ago*zig Rust feels too 2019
- mirekrusin 4y agoAs a ruby guy, does it really matter which language it's written in if it works?
- thatwasunusual 4y agoAs a Perl guy: yes. :(
- thdespou 4y agoI would love to talk about zig!
- matheusmoreira 4y agoI'm just replying here to piggyback on the top comment and create a pointer to this thread in my CheckRepliesToMyComments page.
- InCityDreams 4y agoObligatory xkcd reference.
- breck 4y agoI predicted something similar a long time ago (2022) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680851
- xeromal 4y agoOr back button hijack
- zozbot234 4y agoOff-topic aside, but why do people complain about back-button hijack when you can long-press or right-click and get out of the site? It works on any browser AIUI.
- sokoloff 4y agoWhy do sites do a back-button hijack if it’s possible to use the long-press menu-select feature? Because it’s nowhere near equally convenient or standard to do so.
- efreak 4y ago1. Long press doesn't show full history, it limits to 10-15(? Might be more). I've seen the occasional scummy background script that exploits this with numerous scripted redirects (usually pages with seo snippets cloned from SO). You have to disable the network to go back without being re-redirected, then go through a couple rounds of the back button history to get back to your original page. 2. If you're not using a full browser or are set up to keep a short history, you're basically SOL (Materialistic for HN has a built-in WebView, and I've used similar apps for other sites) 3. I shouldn't have to use history just because some site decided that it should add multiple history entries when I tried to scroll down an infinite list. I'm only on your website because it showed up in a search result, I'm not here to browse other unrelated content.
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- antihero 4y agoNot a single person went on about vue
- jablala 4y agoNo Svelte either, I'm in shambles.
- Justin_K 4y agoThis.
- ironmagma 4y agoOr about how React bloatware introduces tens of petabytes of completely unnecessary dependencies, is destroying the Web, a perfectly-designed hypertext platform for linking documents together for reading on all manner of devices from screenreaders to Braille interfaces and toaster ovens.
- anon7725 4y agoNodding along .... - “oh shit this is a parody thread”
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- giancarlostoro 4y agoAs a JavaScript guy, does this really matter for 95% of the world?
- slowmotiony 4y ago[flagged]
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- weinzierl 4y ago... and no one about site's contrast or scroll hijacking...
- wooque 4y agoOr complained about accessibility
- weego 4y agoAlso missing: How does this compare to X? (where X is an obscure project on github with no documentation of what it's feature boundaries are, has at best 1000 stars and further internet sleuthing suggests its at best only tangentially associated with the original comments domain. The end result being the author feels obliged to figure it out and reply incase not doing so seems arrogant and/or poorly educated in the domain)
- juped 4y agoOh no, not a mere 1000 Facebook likes!
- acqbu 4y agoWhy isn't this at the top?
- kergonath 4y agoEven worse, not a single comment about Rust and use-after-free bugs.