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by ssong 14y ago
I don't have the bandwidth right now to manually curate. However, this sounds like a good idea for someone to do as a dedicated tumblr/posterous blog.
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by ssong 14y ago
It uses the search API ( http://www.hnsearch.com/api ) and does a little bit of sanitizing to remove "Show HN" from the title and find the URL in the post. It seems like the site isn't returning any new results right now, and I'll investiga
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by ssong 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! When I wrote this, I only tested it on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. For the next version, I'm planning to use twitter bootstrap, so hopefully the compatibility will be better.
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by ssong 14y ago
Nope. It's using PhantomJS ( http://phantomjs.org/ ).
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by ssong 14y ago
Not yet. I'll try to include that in the next update.
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by ssong 14y ago
Thanks for posting this :) I wrote HN Showcase as a weekend project last summer. Glad to see this being used. I'm going to try to push an update in the near future.
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by ssong 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback!
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by ssong 14y ago
Not yet. I'll try to add that as part of next batch of updates.
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by ssong 14y ago
I built http://www.hnshowcase.com for this purpose. It finds all Show HN posts via the search API and displays a thumbnail of each project page.
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by ssong 15y ago
I had similar concerns when I first started noticing bootstrap used on random websites I encountered. However, I think bootstrap will probably help increase the lower bound quality of sites while designers pushing the envelope will continue
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by ssong 15y ago
hnsearch is certainly a great way to find the same information, and in fact we use it underneath to get our data. However, going through hnsearch requires a few steps and many casual readers might not bother to go there. Since most "Show HN
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by ssong 15y ago
Direct link: http://www.hnshowcase.com/
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Show HN: Our weekend project - HN Showcase, browse "Show HN" posts
63 points by ssong 15y ago|18 comments