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Show HN: Hacker News in your system tray
- forlorn 13y agoThank you for targeting Linux! I'd rather expected MacOS but you truly surprised me. I'm gonna try.
- captn3m0 13y agoActually, this is inspired by Hacker Bar [1], which launched a couple days back as a Mac-only app. [1]: http://hackerbarapp.com/ http://hackerbarapp.com/
- markrickert 13y agoThanks for the link to my app and for citing it as inspiration!
- alexcason 13y agoThis seems great/dangerous in equal measure.
- swalsh 13y agoThis is a great hack, but a terribly dangerous idea. I have trouble enough avoiding HN when I open a browser... now the thing is looming over me at all times. Sorry, I don't have the willpower for this.
- captn3m0 13y agoIt actually has a better influence on me. I don't worry about opening it on the browser all the time. And somehow, I don't click the button as often as I used to open the HN homepage.
- easy_rider 13y agoI'm going to try this, I think it will actually HELP. I always find myself mindlessly ctrl+t and typing news..<enter> when I open a new browser window.
- gavinpc 13y agoIf you have to type "news", you're better off than I am. "n" does it for me.
- easy_rider 13y agoYou're right, just tested. "n" gets it. I probably get to "ne" or "new" before realizing it. :(
- fddlr 13y agoTry to hide the bookmarks bar. This helped me a lot.
- m458l387 13y agohaha everyone is commenting like they have actual work to do
- easy_rider 13y agoMaybe HN is some sort of social experiment/prank on information gobblers who also happen to be more prone to ADD ;((
- rainmaking 13y agoAnd, at the time of commenting, this link can be found right below the link to "How Software Companies Die".
- erikj 13y agoDistraction at your fingertips.
- vanwilder77 13y agoI have exams tomorrow! But screw it, I'm gonna try this out
- Ashuu 13y agoIs there any such thing for Windows?
- captn3m0 13y agoI am thinking of using node-webkit to package cheeaun's hackerwebapp[1] into the system tray for Windows. Similar to [2] for Mac. [1]: http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ [2]: http://www.guidefreitas.com/hacker-news-menu-tab-app http://www.guidefreitas.com/hacker-news-menu-tab-app EDIT: Popping up an entire webview from Tray doesn't seem to be easy. But creating a menu is very easy. I might do a simple clone of hackertray to Windows :)
- Mustafabei 13y agoWell, I think now there must be an in app way to enable Noprocrast or we are all doomed:)
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- jheriko 13y agoneat, but can i have a windows version? :P maybe an installer instead of the standard linux way of forcing you to know things you don't really need to know?
- captn3m0 13y agoI'm working on a windows version based on the excellent node-webkit [1]. I'm still not sure on how much effort I'll put in packaging it. [1]: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/ https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/
- jheriko 13y agono worries. was just an off the cuff remark. there are already solutions for this. :)
- el_duderino 13y agoIn meantime, just use a systray RSS app & use HN's RSS feed. Essentially the same thing kinda sorta.
- lucb1e 13y agoYou're asking for a hacker news client for windows? Something is wrong here :P
- eksith 13y agoI hope there are options to follow /newest. There are many great stories that never make it to the front page. But I have to (lightly) disagree with swalsh's apprehension. This will quadruple the time spent on my actual work since I can quickly scan the headlines and go back without having to open a window.
- captn3m0 13y agoUpdate: If the app isn't starting any more because of a JSON error, its because the API I am using just crossed its Rate Limit. (https://github.com/cheeaun/node-hnapi https://github.com/cheeaun/node-hnapi). I'm working to fix it as soon as I can.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y agoYou should think about setting up a local instance of node-hnapi and using it instead of a remote one.
- captn3m0 13y ago@cheeaun promised me on twitter that the rate limit is per-IP, and I've since implemented fallback servers (same as hackerweb) so this shouldn't be an issue any more. Plus setting up a local instance would make things unnecessarily complicated (nodejs and all that)
- oscilator 13y agoThanks for open sourcing it. It'd be neat to replicate this idea for other sites I might frequent. I'm already having enough trouble trying to stay away from HN on the browser. Heh.
- captn3m0 13y agoI'm thinking about creating a generic version of this that checks on a single RSS feed for you.
- oscilator 13y agoHey, that'd be really awesome. I'll be checking your github.
- Atroxide 13y agowhat is the difference between this an an RSS feed?
- captn3m0 13y agoThis currently uses cheeaun's excellent node-hnapi[1] instead of an RSS feed. [1]: https://github.com/cheeaun/node-hnapi/ https://github.com/cheeaun/node-hnapi/
- hkbarton 13y agogood new and bad new, the good one is: this is very great hack! bad one is that make me addicted to HN, haha
- lucb1e 13y agoThought it wouldn't work for me out until I saw someone comment "Whynot for Windows?" Oh it's for Linux then? Nice, I guess I should check it out. This was one of the most painless installs ever, just pip it and run it. Done! And of course open source on Github. Great job, thanks!
- cmelbye 13y agoThank god, a way for me to read Hacker News more often throughout the day. ;)