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Show HN: Autobahn - Save Time on Hacker News
- vlad 14y agoFor the past three weeks, I've worked on a Google Chrome extension called Autobahn that makes Hacker News even more awesome: - Ban stories by domain name - View user profiles in a popover - Links to comments and submissions in the popover - E-mails and urls in profiles are clickable - Twitter profile links and usernames - Follow button shown for twitter users - Photo shown for twitter users Visit the web site: http://vlad.github.com/autobahn http://vlad.github.com/autobahn See the screenshots and YouTube videos in the Google Chrome Store to get it or learn more: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dfpgenhhdldjhafbbkodilldkedfgbbj https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dfpgenhhdldjhafbbk... Your feedback is appreciated!
- craze3 14y agoThis is awesome, you should consider adding a DONATE button somewhere on your page so that users can give back :)
- tferris 14y agoWhy did you turn off the Youtube full screen option??
- JohnQPasserby 14y ago> ban stories by domain Brilliant. This is a much-needed feature.
- scrrr 14y agoThis isn't life-changing, but very convenient and unobtrusive in a good way. Well done, vlad! :)
- vlad 14y agoThank you very much. That's what I wanted to release for version 0.1. :) Stay tuned!
- seiji 14y agoI made a dumb HN link/article blocker based on the article title or URL too: http://diff.biz/ http://diff.biz/ The interface is the query string. It's useful when the front page gets too enthusiastic about meaningless things.
- grantjgordon 14y agoCool chrome extension, dude! You might want to reconsider the music on your "save time on hacker news" video. It feels... like a sad foreign film about a mime. It's entirely possible that you meant it to be a parody of an obvious cultural reference that I'm missing, but I'm not sure this is the feeling you want associated with your project.
- emef 14y agoI couldn't tell if it was serious or not, I got the feeling that it was a joke. It was far too dramatic.
- vlad 14y agoEDIT: I've now removed the slow version of the screencast. Thanks. My girlfriend picked the slow music but then said the same thing so I made a fast, supercharged version. However, she advised me to go with the slow one anyway because she liked seeing my face. So I decided to choose one randomly! Short, fast, upbeat version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jl7AW5gXIo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jl7AW5gXIo Slow & dramatic version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8X80_038lU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8X80_038lU (no longer on the web site, though)
- emef 14y agoGreat! That one is much more reasonable =)
- Mithrandir 14y agoNote: it's this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c8X80_038lU http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c...) not this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jl7AW5gXIo&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jl7AW5gXIo&feature=relmf...). For me, the second video popped up first, so I was quite confused by your comment. Also, excellent job on the extension, vlad!
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- chrischen 14y agoI installed it but it doesn't seem to be working. No errors in the background html page for it either. EDIT: nvm, I have to click on the username for the pop up thing.
- k33n 14y agoThis is great!
- vlad 14y agoThank you!
- Mizza 14y agoThis is a parody, right?
- vlad 14y agoA parody of what? I'm not sure what you mean.
- Jd 14y agoI built something like this: https://github.com/fractastical/Hacker-News-Filter https://github.com/fractastical/Hacker-News-Filter Filters by domain, keyword, and karma points. On the friends branch you can also create your groups of friends and the main page will show how many of your friends have commented on any given story.
- vlad 14y agoThanks. Autobahn does not make extra calls to Hacker News because Paul Graham has voiced complaints about such behavior (e.g. scrapers). I've avoided requesting additional pages beyond what the user normally navigates to. However, new features are definitely coming! I launched with many super-polished features in 0.1 and I will try to keep the same standard. I'll check yours out!
- Jd 14y agoYep, I avoided scraping with the first version but with the friends feature it was unavoidable -- that's why i've left it on a branch and haven't merged to head yet; no easy solution there and I was in fact temporarily ip banned while testing the features.
- rcfox 14y agoVery nice! I'd prefer to see the user's karma on the little popup though, rather than beside the link I clicked.
- gala8y 14y agoSame here. Please show karma in the popup. Left lower corner (orange bar of the popup where you have submissions and comments) seems perfect for this. Edit: Only now I see that karma is shown next to user name (thought you were not showing karma at all).
- chrischen 14y agoSuggestion: you should let me go to the actual HN user page.
- vlad 14y agoThanks! You can do the following: 1) Click Options under Autobahn in the list of installed extensions, and turn the instant profile feature off (each feature has its own checkbox). or 2) You can right-click a username and select Open Link in New Tab.
- chrischen 14y agoI'd like to have the instant profile but also have the ability to go to the user's hn profile.
- someperson 14y agoThis is pretty cool extension. I can finally block forbes.com :) Though unfortunately it's not working for me on Lubuntu 11.10, Chromium. ("Lu15.0.874.106 (Developer Build 107270 Linux) Ubuntu 11.10"). Saving preferences doesn't work - all choices just disappear after clicking 'save'... Also feature request: I'd love to be able to highlight domains like I'm not able to ban them. My use-case is that there is a certain type of article by arstechnica, NYT (and a few other sites) that have quality investigative/in-depth reporting that I particular enjoy. Unfortunately, only small subset of those publications total output is that kind of reporting, so I use HN as a filter. This would allow me to quickly figure out what I want to read :-)
- someperson 14y agolike I'm NOW* able to ban them
- vlad 14y ago1) Are you using http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com or a forwarder like hackrnews.com ? 2) Are you using the http version of news.yc ? Support for https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com is coming in the next version (last time I checked, only http was supported.) Thanks!
- someperson 14y agoYep, using http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com I can't seem to save any changes from the extension options (all unchecked. Checking then saving just unticks everything). I'll test on another setup in a few hours after work
- someperson 14y agoUpdated Lubuntu to 12.04 from 11.10. Extension works now. (Not exactly sure what was going on..)
- gala8y 14y ago
- milkmiruku 14y agoLooks interesting, but I don't get the profiles in the latest Chromium nightly, 22.0.1195.0 (145429).
- MichaelGG 14y agoSame here, I'm running 20.0.1132 on Win7. (I also have Adblock, Ghostery, and FB Disconnect installed, in case those are somehow creating some interference.) Edit: Nevermind. Figured out you have to click on the username. But, it also intercepts middle-mouse clicks, so I can't quickly open in a new tab.
- milkmiruku 14y agoAh, bingo, got it, thanks.
- vineet 14y agoInteresting. However, more than filtering out the bad stuff I would love to see content highlighted by one of the people whose opinions I am more interested in.
- mrinterweb 14y agoA feature that I've wanted would be to add a link to hide articles you choose to ignore. That way when you come back to the site a the second, third, forth, Nth time of the day, you don't need to rescan the same links you have already looked at.
- danmaz74 14y agoYou could find this useful: http://blog.hashtagify.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-all-read/ http://blog.hashtagify.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-new...
- luastoned 14y agoAre you planning to add support for Firefox?
- nmcfarl 14y agoTo connect some dots that were not clear to me: The user photos, are from twitter, and are collected from links listed in your profile's about box. Simple - but it took me a minute to connect all the dots...
- altrego99 14y agoCan it be modified for Firefox too?
- gioele 14y agoWhy an extension and not a greasemonkey userscript?
- FrojoS 14y agoDoes it support a view where you only see new posts since the last visit? Or alternatively sort by the most recent posts? This is something that bothers me. Say, there is an interesting discussion with ~100 comments and I read all of them. Then I come back later to ~110 comments, I have to find the new comments manually.
- iamgopal 14y agoalso could add "slow" update option which do not refresh stories for a long time...
- baseh 14y agonice extension - the ban function is cool (now I can ban all that parse spam). Popover function is great. There is one popover chrome addon called ezlinkpreview that I use which is cool too(for bigger monitors) shows windows side by side.