How I read Hacker News

by akkartik • 19 years ago

39 16 19 years ago

naval• 19 years 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• 19 years 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.

akkartik4• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

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

kirubakaran• 19 years ago

Read access to the raw data would be great. If we can get it as JSON, that would be awesome!

Zak• 19 years ago

I wouldn't be shocked if it becomes the example app provided with Arc.

dpapathanasiou2• 19 years 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&...) but I'll look at keeping the comments up-to-date the way you do.

foggo• 19 years ago

Look good. Can you make it so, one can read the comments as well?

dpapathanasiou2• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

FWIW, here's how I read reddit as well as hacker news: 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• 19 years ago

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

akkartik4• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

I can't see anything at all in konq (not that that matters very much).

kajecounterhack• 19 years ago

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

akkartik4• 19 years ago

:) I suppose I could make the limits programmable. At some point they'll take forever to load.

akkartik4• 19 years ago

Update: to change the number of items rendered to 100:

http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-render100

etc.

More details of the url parameters are on this page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71827

How I read Hacker News

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