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Post your HN tricks.
Seems like there are a whole bunch of features that a lot of people don't know about. So I'd like to get a list of everything in one place.
- vaksel 17y agoTo start off: Search: http://www.searchyc.com http://www.searchyc.com Submissions by new members: http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories I know there is one to only see submissions by old users but I don't remember the url
- kirubakaran 17y ago1. Absolutely love http://ask.searchyc.com/ http://ask.searchyc.com/ to check if I missed any AskHNs 2. In my personal wiki, I have a list links to people whose comment threads I follow closely. [http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=*username* http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=*username*] 3. http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive has not been updated recently, but still a good resource 4. http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic and http://news.ycombinator.com/lists http://news.ycombinator.com/lists of course 5. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 modified to help me not visit one aggravating unethical "blog" (you know which). I don't hide it altogether as I value the discussion here.
- Xichekolas 17y agoFWIW, the new version of #5 allows you to apply arbitrary styles to each item, rather than just hiding them. I put a blue background on all the Ask threads for instance. To do so, the 'banlist' is now a textbox. Each line is in the format: *regex*->*style* The default style is to hide anything that matches. Both titles and urls are matched. So: valleywag.com Ask HN->background-color:red; Would hide anything from valleywag.com and put red backgrounds on all the Ask threads. The styling is pretty rough, so not sure what else works beside background colors... feel free to complain if something needs fixed. ;)
- kirubakaran 17y agoCool! background-color works but color does not. text-decoration:line-through; works and that is what I use for marking the websites to avoid. Thanks for the cool tool.
- fallentimes 17y agoPG's microblog: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- jwinter 17y agoPG's other microblog: http://ycombinator.posterous.com/ http://ycombinator.posterous.com/
- zackattack 17y agoIRC channel: #startups on irc.freenode.net
- jacquesm 17y agoI'll just pretend I didn't see that, HN is a large enough timesink as it is.
- dylanz 17y agoWas about to post the same thing... <plugs ears and says "la la la la la">
- tdavis 17y agoNOTE: #startups is about 30% startup/hacker stuff and 70% utter nonsense. I contribute mostly to the nonsense portion, but a few of us regulars were/are in YC and frequently answer YC-related questions.
- mcav 17y agoRSS feed that includes HN's comments: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=23159aed1a913917f8f422bb8f6e7e71&_render=rss http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=23159aed1a913917f8...
- iamwil 17y agoI dunno, I kinda like the idea that people learn about it as they participate and lurk on the site--kind of like leveling up in an informal way, instead of getting it all at once.
- DTrejo 17y agoThey'll have to learn to search for this, once it falls off the homepage.
- tomsaffell 17y agoIf you want to catch up on the last ~week, then you'll want: http://news.ycombinator.com/best http://news.ycombinator.com/best
- megancolin 17y agook thank you! http://www.newsguide.us/art-entertainment/movies/Todd-DiRoberto-of-American-Satellite-Hosts-Independence-Day-Charity-Event-for-Operation-Bigs/ http://www.newsguide.us/art-entertainment/movies/Todd-DiRobe...
- mahmud 17y agoThe [X] button in the top right corner does wonders for one's productivity. As a bonus, use a different browser for work than you usually do for "surfing". My Firefox is crawling with gadgets that each light up and pulsate with every "must see" action that happens in my extended family of RSS feeds, contacts, and bookmarks. My work browser is a light, crisp little Opera thing that has 10 tabs open all set to to various sub-URLs of http://localhost:8080 http://localhost:8080 :-)
- swombat 17y agoI don't have an [X] button in the top right corner. I do have 3 brightly coloured pill buttons in the top left though.
- SwellJoe 17y agoI think that means there's something wrong with your computer. It could be serious. Is your mouse also missing two buttons?
- dkersten 17y agoI don't have any buttons at all. I dont even have window borders or a title bar. Yeah, I use a tiling window manager.
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoI have a yellow tab in the top left corner. Go figure :)
- mahmud 17y agoBe?
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoYou're pretty close :) http://haiku-os.org http://haiku-os.org
- jobeirne 17y agohttp://hackerne.ws http://hackerne.ws -> http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com
- SwellJoe 17y agoWhile I guess the folks who registered this name have nothing but legitimate intent, this is pretty much text book man-in-the-middle attack technique. It would take one change to the DNS record and a simple sniffing proxy, and every user to use that address would be compromised. As long as it is not owned by pg and rtm, I would strongly suggest you use news.ycombinator.com Actually looking at the registration data, I'm extremely suspicious of this name. If I had ever used it, I would be changing my authentication details. whois for hackerne.ws: 1234567 lemesos, lemesos 12345 Cyprus Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: HACKERNE.WS Created on: 27-Nov-07 Expires on: 27-Nov-09 Last Updated on: 28-Nov-08 Administrative Contact: man, europe iloveinternetalot@gmail.com none 1234567 lemesos, lemesos 12345 Cyprus 35799123456 Technical Contact: man, europe iloveinternetalot@gmail.com none 1234567 lemesos, lemesos 12345 Cyprus 35799123456
- jacquesm 17y agoyep. And even if the folks who registered it are 'legit', if they let the domain lapse who knows where it will end up and it's not as though you'll get a warning the next time you point your browser to that address.
- brianto2010 17y agoNot really a 'trick', but here are two cool bookmarklets for for visualizing polls: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700669 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700669 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=528172 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=528172
- vaksel 17y agoDon't forget the bookmarklet, makes posting stories a piece of cake: http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
- lionhearted 17y agoOne general writing trick I learned - after writing a long comment, I'll usually go back and edit it so in the first sentence people know what they're going to read. Some of the best comments I've seen on here are detailed, long ones, but if it jumps right into the middle of presenting the argument and evidence and statistics, a lot of people will glaze over it. So the short intro that lets people know what you're writing about helps a lot.
- swombat 17y agoYou can use this "trick" successfully for any form of writing. As the rule goes: tell'em what you're going to tell'em, tell'em, and then tell'em what you told'em.
- Herring 17y agoAutopager: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925 Ajaxy loading of next pages
- david927 17y agoTo get italics, use asterisks (*).
- streety 17y agoIf you want more than just the link in your RSS feed there was http://nirmalpatel.com/fcgi/hn_feed.fcgi http://nirmalpatel.com/fcgi/hn_feed.fcgi It looks like it is now just a redirect to http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A//news.ycombinator.com/rss http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A... which if you de-construct the url leads to a more generic solution. The content from there can also be fed into Yahoo Pipes for any filtering you want to do. Given the plethora of HN related pipes it seems like everybody just creates their own. Having said that if you want somewhere to start I use http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=c0d729843a9b9e8de399036b1876f63b http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=c0d729843a9b9e8de...
- GHFigs 17y agonoprocrast: on maxvisit: 20 minaway: 700
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- jacquesm 17y agoTo bypass the anti flame-war controls click 'link' when the 'reply' link isn't visible yet.
- Pistos2 17y agoNoob question: What anti flame-war controls?
- tdavis 17y agoThe idea was to make it impossible to reply quickly to deeply-nested threads in order to let the flames settle (the assumption being that deeply-nested threads are generally just flame wars). It appears it was only made less convenient.
- edd 17y agoIf your an iPhone user this works well on your homescreen: http://www.icombinator.net http://www.icombinator.net
- ilitirit 17y agoGM Script that enables foldable comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747786 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747786
- tsondermann 17y agoThe HN Onepage Greasemonkey script. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30512 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30512 Allows me to load pages in a separate frame and then vote and/or comment on them. Saves me the trouble of loading up 15 tabs and forgetting to vote up the stories that I like.
- delano 17y agoWhat is the trick for getting active URIs on profile pages? Examples: * active: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mqt http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mqt * inactive: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamelgringo http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamelgringo
- bayareaguy 17y agoWhile working I use this strategy to limit my HN reading to compile cycles: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447077 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447077