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Show HN: HN Frontpage Minus Techmeme
- aiurtourist 14y agoFascinating. Given that HN has so much content nowadays, aggregators/filters like this are proving useful. (I found this link through http://www.skimhn.com/ http://www.skimhn.com/)
- raimonds 14y agoHi aiurtourist! Thanks for your kind feedback! And super mega thanks for mentioning skimhn.com!
- gala8y 14y agoThanks for pointer to http://www.skimhn.com/ http://www.skimhn.com/. It feels like gasp of fresh air. Sifting through list of highly diverse material, which Hacker News is, is a real cognitive load (citation need, I know). Now, this is elegant.
- mturmon 14y agoAlso, the link you cite can help to direct attention to a broader range of HN articles than the top-page can.
- niix 14y agoGives me the idea to make an infinite scrolling HN aggregate.
- raimonds 14y agoGo for it! :)
- usaphp 14y agoIt does not show me the links that I've already visited. Thats the best thing I like about HN site.
- raimonds 14y agoGood point! Fixed! Thanks for your feedback!
- danso 14y agoBecause the "visited" link color is so close to the body text, the titles may confusingly butt into the site name, i.e. "Why HN was down self" I understand that adding another delimiter there, e.g. "Why HN was down | self" adds undesirable noise...maybe the visited-link color could be more obviously blue?
- raimonds 14y agoHi danso! Thanks for your feedback! I've applied a quick fix. I'm very bad at design so please don't expect much.
- mikeleeorg 14y agoThe "self" link confused me at first. My eye happened to catch it before I saw any of the other links, so I thought it meant it was linking to my reply in that thread. I'd like to propose "news.ycombinator.com" instead of self, which would also be consistent with the other domain names listed for each article.
- raimonds 14y agoYeah, I agree! "Self" is confusing indeed. Fixed! Thank you for pointing it out!
- aw3c2 14y agoMy view: The important thing is the headline. Make that blue. Make the domain grey or black and a smaller size (like on HN).
- raimonds 14y agoThank you, aw3c2! That makes sense. I will try to play around with styling.
- lmm 14y agoIs there anything around that lets me "ban" domains that I've chosen? I know I personally won't get anything positive out of a link from dcurt.is or 42floors, and I don't like rediscussing links from another discussion site (i.e. stack overflow), so it would be nice to be able to construct my own set of filters.
- SwaroopH 14y agoHere's an old userscript my co-founder built: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/32404 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/32404
- npsimons 14y agoI use filters in my RSS reader to ignore anything Apple or Microsoft related.
- gala8y 14y agoIf you are using Google Chrome, there is Autobahn extension http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/ http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/ by vlad, discussed few months ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4197062 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4197062).
- aaronbrethorst 14y agoI wrote a Safari extension a couple years ago when the number of Bitcoin stories on the home page was reaching epidemic levels. There's a link on there to a similar extension for Chrome. You should be able to hack either one to ignore specific domains pretty easily. https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/NoBitcoin https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/NoBitcoin
- manojlds 14y agoStackOverflow is not a discussion site. It's a QnA site, and people who have had their question / answer removed or downvoted would vouch for that,
- hnriot 14y agoYou think QnA isn't a discussion? Of course it's a discussion site.
- latitude 14y agoWow, this is such a simple and elegant idea. Might've been a bit more practical to build it as a story-hiding extension rather than a separate site. And I just happen to have such extension and... oh, look... it's under the BSD license... hint hint :) [0] http://swapped.cc/iip http://swapped.cc/iip [1] https://github.com/apankrat/internet-improvement-project/tree/master/hn https://github.com/apankrat/internet-improvement-project/tre...
- larrys 14y agoQuestion for the OP. Why the privacy on the domain? If yourintent is to build things and get attention it's not to your benefit to hide your identity. If you're worried about spam use a different email that forwards to your regular email to filter. That said I'd like to know your reasoning for doing this (you aren't the only person that does this obviously so anyone who wants to chime in please do as always).
- raimonds 14y agoHi, larrys! OP here. Thanks for your question! I just don't know domain registration that well. What information is exposed in case of "public" registration? Is it just my e-mail? Or address, phone number as well? I was scared by possible spam and some recent domain hijacking stories so I chose privacy.
- Bill_Dimm 14y agoAddress and phone (in addition to email) are exposed. You can do a lookup on www.who.is to see what the info looks like for a domain. I'm not sure how hiding your info would have anything to do with domain hijacking concerns, unless you are easily conned by phishing emails.
- raimonds 14y agoThanks for the explanation! I'm not comfortable with sharing my address and phone number yet. This information seems like a good starting point for social engineering attacks. OK, I know, I'm paranoid. Give me some time. :)
- larrys 14y agoWhat information is exposed: Any information you put as far as your contact info. Name, address and phone number, email. Spam is not an issue and if you feel that's a problem simply use a gmail account that forwards to your real account. People also scrape web pages so you already have your email on your webpage anyway. Personally I own plenty of domains (for many many years) and I don't even get that much spam. As far as domain hijacking there is nothing about your domain to indicate you have to worry about losing it (who would hijack it and why would they?) If anything if the info isn't public then nobody (but the registrar) even knows that you own it because that ownership is hidden. And in the event it is hijacked you can get it reversed. Bottom line is this: privacy for some people might be good in some cases. In general though I think (based on owning a registrar and many years in this business) think it's a bad business idea. Registrars push it because it's good for them (keeps competitors out) and some charge for it or if they don't they make you think you are getting something of value. I've seen cases of real businesses using privacy with business addresses who have no reason to protect anything (which shows how they are being mislead). Bottom line: You've taken the time to create something make sure people know who you are and how to contact you (should also be on the website) maybe you will get some work or contacts etc.
- benologist 14y agoReally nice. HN is (to me) way too mainstream, too many people just dump generic news here or in the case off a few major publishers spam themselves.
- volaski 14y agoI would like to see "HN Frontpage Minus YC company announcements"
- Permit 14y agoThis looks great. Honestly, a lot of the stuff on the front page of HN is there simply because of the domain name associated with it. It's nice to have something like this. I'm going to try and use it as a replacement.
- raimonds 14y agoGlad you like it! Thanks for trying it out.
- gamblor956 14y agoAt first I thought the joke was that there was nothing on the HN Frontpage that was not also posted to Techmeme. Then I realized the site does not work in IE.
- raimonds 14y agoOuch! Sorry about that. I'll look into it.