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HackerID: name the best HackerNews contributors
"... Read HackerNews? Want to know who is really contributing? Who the real Hacker Heroes are? I do. So I came up with a simple idea - gather together a summary of HackerNews contributors and summarise the data into a simple format. ..."
I've written a small hack that some readers might find interesting. As the title suggests it puts a name to the best HackerNews submissions, their scores, comments. Most important it identifies who is contributing, what.
As an added bonus I wacked up a quick demo table with sortable columns.
The particular itch scratched here is I want to have access to "data" so I can quickly view the best stories at any time and then work out who is contributing.. I also proved to myself that having the data as opposed to just a web page allows you to do more interesting things than just read.
- Data http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/xml/hackerid.xml http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/xml/hacker...
- Dynamic http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/ http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/
- Colophon http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/colophon/ http://goonmail.customer.netspace.net.au/hackerid/colophon/
- Photos http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157602126038562/ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157602126038562/
- vlad 19y agoLong way to go... When I see my name, maybe I'll believe it.
- bootload 19y ago"... Long way to go... When I see my name, maybe I'll believe it. .." It's just a tech demo that I've cooked up for myself vlad, not a product. As for finding your own name submit something that gets above the threshold (2pts). When I see it I'll notify you. The point I want to make (mainly to myself) is data is much more useful to do your own stuff with code rather than having to digest what others have packaged.
- bootload 19y ago"... When I see my name ..." Here's why ~ it works by parsing the RSS feed which to my knowledge displays from http://news.ycombinator.com/news http://news.ycombinator.com/news So if you are not on the previous url your not going to appear.
- bootload 19y agotry viewing now ... 899 vlad 5 News.YC #1 for Startup News, #3... 0 3 hours
- kashif 19y agoQuick Leaderboard - http://news.ycombinator.com/best http://news.ycombinator.com/best
- marrone 19y agoIs there a filter on PG so that he doesn't auto win? Kind of like how you weren't allowed to pick Gretzky in hockey pools?
- bootload 19y agoNo I'll add that. I just wanted to get the thing to work first. That & remove 'deleted'. Along with - add star (or some other indication) it in top 10, 30 - names of users responding to a particular story (score, hierarchy maybe) Maybe plot some graphs of user contributions over time. I'll see what I can think up.