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The gadget looks cool. Just wondering though, can you turn off the notification for karma changes? Imagine if someone's post gets to the #1 spot, then their kar

The gadget looks cool. Just wondering though, can you turn off the notification for karma changes? Imagine if someone's post gets to the #1 spot, then their karma would be changing rapidly. Can it notify you when you reach a new milestone in karma? (1000 karma, 500 karma)

metadat 4y ago
Yes, please this. Over time I've come to sort of despise the karma system. Some low karma accounts are amazing, some high karma accounts are tools (imho), and I wish there was a way to remain logged in yet ignore karma, except for maybe one update per day max. It is often an unhelpful distraction to me, personally.
- pabs3 4y ago
  You can use the uBlock Origin "Block element" feature to hide the karma and post scores.
  - metadat 4y ago
    Makes sense. However, on mobile this is a trickier challenge. Brave on mobile is tough to beat. "It just works."
- swyx 4y ago
  relatedly i wonder if there's existing tooling for getting notifications/daily recaps of comments made by high karma accounts (or accounts you choose to follow) - always felt like this was a missing feature in HN
  - nigamanth 4y ago
    For real, I wish I could follow people and then their new posts would come up on my feed.
  - kagevf 4y ago
    You can follow any user on HN with rss. https://hnrss.github.io/ https://hnrss.github.io/
  - lawxls 4y ago
    Although not exactly that, here's a telegram bot I made with a bunch of features related to notifications from HN: https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot Maybe I'll add such notifications in the future
- onion2k 4y ago
  Some low karma accounts are amazing, some high karma accounts are tools (imho).. Why would you attack me like this? ;)
jareklupinski 4y ago
Thank you! Definitely; right now it only checks whether the latest karma does not equal the previous karma: https://github.com/jareklupinski/hackernews-badge/blob/main/hackernews-badge.ino#L188 https://github.com/jareklupinski/hackernews-badge/blob/main/... Changing the condition for this branch, for example to if ((previousKarma + 500) < userKarma || (previousKarma - 500) > userKarma) { would make the notification go off when the karma has changed by at least 500. For high value accounts, the variables should probably be changed to 'long's as well... I enjoyed the light show tonight ;)
soheil 4y ago
If this is so important why not just add a widget to your desktop next to the clock. Why create a whole new device? I like the fun nature of building kits like this though.
- jareklupinski 4y ago
  personally I full-screen between 3 apps on my work mac, as a way to devote that real-estate to only work-relevant stuff. if I added a hacker news widget to my work desktop, I would be too distracted and never get any work done :) this way I can glance at the widget whenever I'm feeling a bit bored and open the page on my phone, then take a break away from my desk with the content in my hand
mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
It's just an AVR microcontroller with some dead simple C code(technically C++ but there's no reason to use C++ features very much). The easiest way to configure it would be to just change the code.

metadat 4y ago

Yes, please this. Over time I've come to sort of despise the karma system. Some low karma accounts are amazing, some high karma accounts are tools (imho), and I wish there was a way to remain logged in yet ignore karma, except for maybe one update per day max. It is often an unhelpful distraction to me, personally.

pabs3 4y ago
You can use the uBlock Origin "Block element" feature to hide the karma and post scores.
- metadat 4y ago
  Makes sense. However, on mobile this is a trickier challenge. Brave on mobile is tough to beat. "It just works."
swyx 4y ago
relatedly i wonder if there's existing tooling for getting notifications/daily recaps of comments made by high karma accounts (or accounts you choose to follow) - always felt like this was a missing feature in HN
- nigamanth 4y ago
  For real, I wish I could follow people and then their new posts would come up on my feed.
- kagevf 4y ago
  You can follow any user on HN with rss. https://hnrss.github.io/ https://hnrss.github.io/
- lawxls 4y ago
  Although not exactly that, here's a telegram bot I made with a bunch of features related to notifications from HN: https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot Maybe I'll add such notifications in the future
onion2k 4y ago
Some low karma accounts are amazing, some high karma accounts are tools (imho).. Why would you attack me like this? ;)

jareklupinski 4y ago

Thank you! Definitely; right now it only checks whether the latest karma does not equal the previous karma: https://github.com/jareklupinski/hackernews-badge/blob/main/hackernews-badge.ino#L188 https://github.com/jareklupinski/hackernews-badge/blob/main/... Changing the condition for this branch, for example to if ((previousKarma + 500) < userKarma || (previousKarma - 500) > userKarma) { would make the notification go off when the karma has changed by at least 500. For high value accounts, the variables should probably be changed to 'long's as well... I enjoyed the light show tonight ;)

soheil 4y ago

If this is so important why not just add a widget to your desktop next to the clock. Why create a whole new device? I like the fun nature of building kits like this though.

jareklupinski 4y ago
personally I full-screen between 3 apps on my work mac, as a way to devote that real-estate to only work-relevant stuff. if I added a hacker news widget to my work desktop, I would be too distracted and never get any work done :) this way I can glance at the widget whenever I'm feeling a bit bored and open the page on my phone, then take a break away from my desk with the content in my hand

mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago

It's just an AVR microcontroller with some dead simple C code(technically C++ but there's no reason to use C++ features very much). The easiest way to configure it would be to just change the code.