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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

47 points by Willingham 2y ago

Willingham 2y ago
This reading helped me a great deal in understanding this community when I joined, and it appears it’s been over a year since its last repost! I hope many of you get to read this wonderful educational piece by minimaxir for the first time like I did years ago, Cheers!
OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Very interesting collection and I learned a lot of history and norms that I didn't know. Thank you for this! Bookmarked.
sonorous_sub 2y ago
I wish I knew more about the "hide" function for tucking away threads. It used to be I could hide every single thread I had reviewed until I had a completely blank page, enabling me to dismiss every thread I had already reviewed. But within the past few months, only about 50% of the threads respond to a "hide" button press. I wonder if this issue is related to my browser (Mozilla).
- insin 2y ago
  I made a browser extension [1] (also available as a userscript with the same name on Greasy Fork) which automatically collapses threads without new comments and highlights new comments on repeat visits to the same item, if you don't want to have to do this manually [1] https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news
  - mdaniel 2y ago
    I couldn't find any licensing information in your repo <https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news>; is it just source available? In contrast to https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/22.12.17/LICENSE https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/22.12... which is MIT
    - insin 2y ago
      Oops, fixed: https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/blob/m...
- howard941 2y ago
  I too have this issue and use Firefox, but not on 1/2 of the hides. Some threads just refuse to hide.
doublerabbit 2y ago
Also misses rate limiting. "Your replying to fast"
aaron695 2y ago
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jocoda 2y ago
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47 points by Willingham 2y ago

This reading helped me a great deal in understanding this community when I joined, and it appears it’s been over a year since its last repost! I hope many of you get to read this wonderful educational piece by minimaxir for the first time like I did years ago, Cheers!

OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago

Very interesting collection and I learned a lot of history and norms that I didn't know. Thank you for this! Bookmarked.

sonorous_sub 2y ago

I wish I knew more about the "hide" function for tucking away threads. It used to be I could hide every single thread I had reviewed until I had a completely blank page, enabling me to dismiss every thread I had already reviewed. But within the past few months, only about 50% of the threads respond to a "hide" button press. I wonder if this issue is related to my browser (Mozilla).

insin 2y ago
I made a browser extension [1] (also available as a userscript with the same name on Greasy Fork) which automatically collapses threads without new comments and highlights new comments on repeat visits to the same item, if you don't want to have to do this manually [1] https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news
- mdaniel 2y ago
  I couldn't find any licensing information in your repo <https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news>; is it just source available? In contrast to https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/22.12.17/LICENSE https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/22.12... which is MIT
  - insin 2y ago
    Oops, fixed: https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/blob/m...
howard941 2y ago
I too have this issue and use Firefox, but not on 1/2 of the hides. Some threads just refuse to hide.

doublerabbit 2y ago

Also misses rate limiting. "Your replying to fast"

aaron695 2y ago

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jocoda 2y ago

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