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Dear hackers, I pushed my "Hacker Top" program to github.

65 points by pkrumins 17y ago

pkrumins 17y ago
A few days ago I started pushing all the projects that I had done since 2007 to Git Hub and found this awesome program! I had already forgotten that I had written it! Try it out and if you like it, please contribute! :) Ps. I currently have pushed 12 projects and have 19 projects left. I am pushing 1-2 works per day, because none of them have a good readme, and I have to write it. If you are interested in my works, you can follow my github profile.
fridrik 17y ago
This is awesome! Currently, though, it allows you to browse a listing of headlines, but that's a great place the start. One feature that would make this tremendously more usful is just adding integration to the Python 'webbrowser' module to open the currently selected entry in the user's default browser. That might even be the only feature this needs :) I'll be watching this!
- pkrumins 17y ago
  Hi, thanks for the idea. I added this idea to TODO. :)
thingie 17y ago
Could you fix file modes, please? readme.txt file almost certainly doesn't need to be executable for anyone. (Just a minor issue.)
- pkrumins 17y ago
  Oh? I didn't know it was getting excluded! Update: oops, I misread "executable" for "excluded". You can ignore the rest of this thread.
  - maximilian 17y ago
    He said "executable". Is the executable flag set on readme.txt?
    - pkrumins 17y ago
      Oh, sorry. I misread. Yes, it's set. Going to remove it. (But I don't find it a big deal that it's set personally.) Update: done.
      - thingie 17y ago
        It doesn't matter much, but it's a nice and very obvious way of saying "you should run this". You clone the repository, type ls, see one file green, and you can instantly run it, without reading the doc, or guessing.
        pkrumins 17y ago
        You're right!
  - swolchok 17y ago
    I guess you're not a Linux user? See under "Permissions" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions#Traditional_Unix_permissions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions#Traditi... .
    - pkrumins 17y ago
      Oh sorry. "executable" not "excluded". I misread. Sure, gonna fix them right now. Update: done.
jsean 17y ago
Great job! Guess I've got to find a way to hide my productivity decline now...
colbyolson 17y ago
It's neat, but it only displays the top stories and there's no way to really read the stories? I think it's nifty, but not necessarily useful.
- pkrumins 17y ago
  Try cycling the display modes with 'm'. There is a mode that displays the URLs. I usually just copy/paste it. I can't open them in a browser because I run this program on another computer via a ssh session, therefore I have not yet implemented this feature. Sometimes the URLs are too long, though. Then I have to navigate to hacker news. The same if I want to comment.
  - jseifer 17y ago
    On OS X at least, you could shell out to the open command and pass in the url.
    - pkrumins 17y ago
      I am going to try to add it right now. :)
      - pkrumins 17y ago
        This is not going that fast. I have postponed it for a while.
  - akkartik 17y ago
    If you can use VNC, I built this a few years ago: http://akkartik.name/vnc.html http://akkartik.name/vnc.html
Aegean 17y ago
Sounds crazy. Very hacker-like.
rbanffy 17y ago
Won't we all hitting HN's home every couple seconds cause a server meltdown?
- pkrumins 17y ago
  Nope. The front page is 90-seconds cached for the not-logged-in people. And by default the program queries the site once every 3 minutes.
jrockway 17y ago
It would be nice if HN got a real API. I like to read HN from my phone, but the table-based layout just doesn't work. Being able to write a "rich" interface would be much nicer. (Plus, it would be nice to get notifications about comment replies, etc.)

65 points by pkrumins 17y ago

A few days ago I started pushing all the projects that I had done since 2007 to Git Hub and found this awesome program! I had already forgotten that I had written it! Try it out and if you like it, please contribute! :) Ps. I currently have pushed 12 projects and have 19 projects left. I am pushing 1-2 works per day, because none of them have a good readme, and I have to write it. If you are interested in my works, you can follow my github profile.

fridrik 17y ago

This is awesome! Currently, though, it allows you to browse a listing of headlines, but that's a great place the start. One feature that would make this tremendously more usful is just adding integration to the Python 'webbrowser' module to open the currently selected entry in the user's default browser. That might even be the only feature this needs :) I'll be watching this!

pkrumins 17y ago
Hi, thanks for the idea. I added this idea to TODO. :)

thingie 17y ago

Could you fix file modes, please? readme.txt file almost certainly doesn't need to be executable for anyone. (Just a minor issue.)

pkrumins 17y ago
Oh? I didn't know it was getting excluded! Update: oops, I misread "executable" for "excluded". You can ignore the rest of this thread.
- maximilian 17y ago
  He said "executable". Is the executable flag set on readme.txt?
  - pkrumins 17y ago
    Oh, sorry. I misread. Yes, it's set. Going to remove it. (But I don't find it a big deal that it's set personally.) Update: done.
    - thingie 17y ago
      It doesn't matter much, but it's a nice and very obvious way of saying "you should run this". You clone the repository, type ls, see one file green, and you can instantly run it, without reading the doc, or guessing.
      - pkrumins 17y ago
        You're right!
- swolchok 17y ago
  I guess you're not a Linux user? See under "Permissions" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions#Traditional_Unix_permissions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions#Traditi... .
  - pkrumins 17y ago
    Oh sorry. "executable" not "excluded". I misread. Sure, gonna fix them right now. Update: done.

jsean 17y ago

Great job! Guess I've got to find a way to hide my productivity decline now...

colbyolson 17y ago

It's neat, but it only displays the top stories and there's no way to really read the stories? I think it's nifty, but not necessarily useful.

pkrumins 17y ago
Try cycling the display modes with 'm'. There is a mode that displays the URLs. I usually just copy/paste it. I can't open them in a browser because I run this program on another computer via a ssh session, therefore I have not yet implemented this feature. Sometimes the URLs are too long, though. Then I have to navigate to hacker news. The same if I want to comment.
- jseifer 17y ago
  On OS X at least, you could shell out to the open command and pass in the url.
  - pkrumins 17y ago
    I am going to try to add it right now. :)
    - pkrumins 17y ago
      This is not going that fast. I have postponed it for a while.
- akkartik 17y ago
  If you can use VNC, I built this a few years ago: http://akkartik.name/vnc.html http://akkartik.name/vnc.html

Aegean 17y ago

Sounds crazy. Very hacker-like.

rbanffy 17y ago

Won't we all hitting HN's home every couple seconds cause a server meltdown?

pkrumins 17y ago
Nope. The front page is 90-seconds cached for the not-logged-in people. And by default the program queries the site once every 3 minutes.

jrockway 17y ago

It would be nice if HN got a real API. I like to read HN from my phone, but the table-based layout just doesn't work. Being able to write a "rich" interface would be much nicer. (Plus, it would be nice to get notifications about comment replies, etc.)