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How I read Hacker News

39 points by akkartik 19y ago

naval 19y ago
Nice - reminds me of a much better version of the old Slashdot interface - I was always going to "Threaded" and "view all on one page" Now if someone would just create a working RSS full-text feed for Paulgraham.com...
lvecsey 19y ago
Just get it to fill in new items automatically via javascript updates, and then we can leave it running full screen on a dedicated monitor. It then would become something of a medusa head though, because if you hope to get any regular work done you'll have to completely divert your eyes.
- akkartik 19y ago
  Hmm, but wouldn't it be annoying if it loads stuff on top while you're reading/clicking something? You'd lose your place on the page. I suppose I could create gmail-style update messages you have to click on. That loses the medusa-head character, though :) I'm using page load as a surrogate for 'mark all as read', which keeps track of the state of the divider and so on. Keeps the UI simple. follow is intended to be something you periodically focus on. With auto-reload stuff flows past you so fast I'm not sure what the dashboard-like view would convey above the fold. Especially since even new stuff vanishes below the fold on many occasions. Making something you can just glance at is much harder, I think.
trekker7 19y ago
Nice... PG, you should open source parts of News.YC so people can add features to it :-).
- kirubakaran 19y ago
  Read access to the raw data would be great. If we can get it as JSON, that would be awesome!
- Zak 19y ago
  I wouldn't be shocked if it becomes the example app provided with Arc.
dpapathanasiou 19y ago
Nice, especially how you track the comments together with the posts. My way is more compact (http://www.seeksift.com/asp?act=relatedsrc&id=index&link=http://news.ycombinator.com/rss http://www.seeksift.com/asp?act=relatedsrc&id=index&...) but I'll look at keeping the comments up-to-date the way you do.
- foggo 19y ago
  Look good. Can you make it so, one can read the comments as well?
  - dpapathanasiou 19y ago
    Can you make it so, one can read the comments as well? It's certainly a good idea, as the hystry.com site shows. It appears, though, that this site (yc news) doesn't have a comments feed, so adding them would be a bit involved. The O.P. does a nice job of it on his site, which is probably why this entry rose to the top of yc news so fast.
scruzia 19y ago
FWIW, here's how I read reddit as well as hacker news: http://scruzia.blogspot.com/2007/09/reddit-greasemonkey-script-see-headline.html http://scruzia.blogspot.com/2007/09/reddit-greasemonkey-scri... Goal: See any headline exactly once. Ever. In reality, it kinda resets itself whenever you restart the browser.
boucher 19y ago
I read hacker news in Safari, which precludes me from viewing slides three through eleven.
- akkartik 19y ago
  Really? :(( One workaround: hover over the bottom right corner region and click on the 'O' to see all the slides in a single html page. Does that work? Sorry about that. off-topic: news.yc munged the 'phi' unicode character I laboriously copy-pasted between apostrophes above.
  - asdflkj 19y ago
    I can't see anything at all in konq (not that that matters very much).
kajecounterhack 19y ago
hmm I go down the front page from top to bottom. =]
- akkartik 19y ago
  :) I suppose I could make the limits programmable. At some point they'll take forever to load.
- akkartik 19y ago
  Update: to change the number of items rendered to 100: http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-render100 http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-render100 etc. More details of the url parameters are on this page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71827 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71827

39 points by akkartik 19y ago

naval 19y ago

Nice - reminds me of a much better version of the old Slashdot interface - I was always going to "Threaded" and "view all on one page" Now if someone would just create a working RSS full-text feed for Paulgraham.com...

lvecsey 19y ago

Just get it to fill in new items automatically via javascript updates, and then we can leave it running full screen on a dedicated monitor. It then would become something of a medusa head though, because if you hope to get any regular work done you'll have to completely divert your eyes.

akkartik 19y ago
Hmm, but wouldn't it be annoying if it loads stuff on top while you're reading/clicking something? You'd lose your place on the page. I suppose I could create gmail-style update messages you have to click on. That loses the medusa-head character, though :) I'm using page load as a surrogate for 'mark all as read', which keeps track of the state of the divider and so on. Keeps the UI simple. follow is intended to be something you periodically focus on. With auto-reload stuff flows past you so fast I'm not sure what the dashboard-like view would convey above the fold. Especially since even new stuff vanishes below the fold on many occasions. Making something you can just glance at is much harder, I think.

trekker7 19y ago

Nice... PG, you should open source parts of News.YC so people can add features to it :-).

kirubakaran 19y ago
Read access to the raw data would be great. If we can get it as JSON, that would be awesome!
Zak 19y ago
I wouldn't be shocked if it becomes the example app provided with Arc.

dpapathanasiou 19y ago

Nice, especially how you track the comments together with the posts. My way is more compact (http://www.seeksift.com/asp?act=relatedsrc&id=index&link=http://news.ycombinator.com/rss http://www.seeksift.com/asp?act=relatedsrc&id=index&...) but I'll look at keeping the comments up-to-date the way you do.

foggo 19y ago
Look good. Can you make it so, one can read the comments as well?
- dpapathanasiou 19y ago
  Can you make it so, one can read the comments as well? It's certainly a good idea, as the hystry.com site shows. It appears, though, that this site (yc news) doesn't have a comments feed, so adding them would be a bit involved. The O.P. does a nice job of it on his site, which is probably why this entry rose to the top of yc news so fast.

scruzia 19y ago

FWIW, here's how I read reddit as well as hacker news: http://scruzia.blogspot.com/2007/09/reddit-greasemonkey-script-see-headline.html http://scruzia.blogspot.com/2007/09/reddit-greasemonkey-scri... Goal: See any headline exactly once. Ever. In reality, it kinda resets itself whenever you restart the browser.

boucher 19y ago

I read hacker news in Safari, which precludes me from viewing slides three through eleven.

akkartik 19y ago
Really? :(( One workaround: hover over the bottom right corner region and click on the 'O' to see all the slides in a single html page. Does that work? Sorry about that. off-topic: news.yc munged the 'phi' unicode character I laboriously copy-pasted between apostrophes above.
- asdflkj 19y ago
  I can't see anything at all in konq (not that that matters very much).

kajecounterhack 19y ago

hmm I go down the front page from top to bottom. =]

akkartik 19y ago
:) I suppose I could make the limits programmable. At some point they'll take forever to load.
akkartik 19y ago
Update: to change the number of items rendered to 100: http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-render100 http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-render100 etc. More details of the url parameters are on this page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71827 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71827