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by valentinvieriu 10y ago
Thank you. Comments are available if you want. Just click the comments link
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by valentinvieriu 10y ago
Thank you for the feedback. Noted down the feedback. I agree with you regarding the extra information. I will probably make it on hover. The title might be necessary, because it's not always visible in the screenshot. Regarding the re
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by valentinvieriu 10y ago
Thank you
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by valentinvieriu 10y ago
Glad you like it. Feel free to use it on a daily basis
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by valentinvieriu 10y ago
Agree with this, the first version had no autorefresh. But this is quite annoying if you have this open in a tab. You get old news, and that kind of is against the purpose of the app.
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by valentinvieriu 10y ago
Glad you liked it!
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by valentinvieriu 10y ago
Hi, I'm the author of this project. The code will be available soon on github: at https://github.com/valentinvieriu/visual-hacker-news - right now that's the old version using Angularjs The project uses as a
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by valentinvieriu 10y ago
@valentinvieriu
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by valentinvieriu 10y ago
The thumbnails are generated using phantomjs server. I'm using https://github.com/blockai/phantom-pool to make sure the phantomjs instance is reused. Also I'm using a scheduling node package ( https:/&#
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Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs(hnews.xyz)
248 points by valentinvieriu 10y ago|107 comments
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Show HN: Browse Hacker News in a Pinterest Way – Build with Vuejs(hnews.xyz)
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Show HN: Read Hacker News in a Pinterest Way – Build with AngularJS(hnews.xyz)
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by valentinvieriu 11y ago
Interesting idea. I might look into expanding this. The whole idea with the big thumbnail was that you can quickly have a glimpse at the content before you click on the link. If you are on mobile or tablet, you can almost read half of the l
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by valentinvieriu 11y ago
@wanda Great list! I already know couple of those, but they have the same thing in common, it's just a list with a link. I've tried to offer the user a little bit mode insight into the page, by providing a preview. Hope you will p
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by valentinvieriu 11y ago
That's funny. The firebase database I'm using it's the public Hacker News API. Should not have this limitation
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by valentinvieriu 11y ago
I've put it on my list. Glad to see the amazing feedback. I'll make sure I will add more features in the near future.
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by valentinvieriu 11y ago
Thank you for the feedback. It was a weekend project, and yes I'm using a yeoman generator for the angular project. I'm using KOA just as a thin web server and also as a proxy to cache the images.
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by valentinvieriu 11y ago
This looks great! I like the Comment section. I might steal that idea
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by valentinvieriu 11y ago
I agree, you should build your own. It's quite fun! I've shared the code on https://github.com/valentinvieriu/visual-hacker-news please feel free to fork it. It's free. The hard part is the caching. I su
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Show HN: Read Hacker News in a Pinterest Way(hnews.xyz)
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by valentinvieriu 11y ago
Some technical details about this weekend project: -It is based on the firebase api( https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/ ) -Frontend is Angularjs -uses social login from firebase, so you can save your favorites -has a thin n
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by valentinvieriu 11y ago
I guess everybody has it's own clone. With Firebase opening up the dat, it's quite trivial to build your own Here is my version: https://hnews.xyz/#/ It grabs the preview of the landing pages so you kind of k
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Show HN: A visual HN reader build with Aangular(hnews.xyz)
5 points by valentinvieriu 11y ago|2 comments