[HN Gopher] A curated list of FOSS tools to improve the Hacker N...
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A curated list of FOSS tools to improve the Hacker News experience
Author : bminusl
Score : 62 points
Date : 2021-03-15 12:41 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| nathanwallace wrote:
| Use SQL to query Hacker News with Steampipe -
| https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/hackernews
|
| It's an open source Postgres FDW using Go -
| https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-hackernews
| throwawaysea wrote:
| Will one of these make grayed out comments easier to read? I
| often find it very hard to read those even when I intend to,
| which I feel like is a design flaw. It would be better if there
| was a toggle button to let me read a specific comment with normal
| coloring.
| dang wrote:
| If a comment is faded and you're having trouble reading it, you
| can click on its timestamp to go to its page, and in that case
| it should be rendered normally.
|
| I know it's an extra hop, but hopefully better than nothing.
| yesenadam wrote:
| If you click on the "X minutes ago" it takes you to that
| comment's page, where it's not greyed out. Or use this
| bookmarklet to ungrey all comments on a page:
| javascript:(function(){var
| i,x=document.querySelectorAll(".commtext");for
| (i=0;i<x.length;i++) x[i].className='commtext c00'})();
| enobrev wrote:
| I use an android client for HN, but the _only_ feature I actually
| want is for the collapse and vote buttons to be big enough for
| human fingers on mobile. Being able to unvote helps, but one of
| the only reasons I ever need to unvote is because the vote
| buttons are microscopic.
| [deleted]
| rolls-reus wrote:
| Lack of a license does not make code FOSS by default.
| bminusl wrote:
| The lack of a license on small projects is often an oversight.
| And anyway, when the authors are notified, they choose the
| first license they see --- often MIT.
| seoguru wrote:
| also chrome extension to toggle only showing comments that
| contain links: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-
| news-show-l...
| tartoran wrote:
| I would like to be able mark off all the stories I read or am not
| interested in so at the next visits I can quickly scan whether
| there's any change. I know I could use the 'hide' for stories but
| I'd still have to scan a list of 30 (older) stories so that won't
| work so basically zero inbox isn't working out for me. Also I
| like seeing the how the rank changes for the top 30 stories, I
| just want to visually be able to know I checked that off.
| iptrans wrote:
| Use the front page RSS feed.
| PeterWhittaker wrote:
| I'm a big fan of https://hckrnews.com
| screamingninja wrote:
| My favorite FOSS Android HN client is Materialistic-
| https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
|
| Available on f-droid-
| https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...
| interestica wrote:
| Same. Except for some weird reason it won't let you click on
| URLs from hacker News when posted in a thread (eg when someone
| is linking to an older thread). Other than that, it's the best
| HN client I've come across for Android.
|
| I suspect it's some kind of recursion thing going on where I'm
| already in the app assigned to HN URLs.?
| hivacruz wrote:
| I would love to see something to exclude or ignore some patterns
| in titles or links.
|
| I browse HN every day to read good tech posts and comments but
| I'm a very anxious person (especially these days of course) and
| seeing articles about death, cancers and other things make me
| start the day quite badly.
|
| I know this is not a solution to ignore this, I should fight it,
| but I would gladly like to see (sub-)categories or tags on HN to
| browse wisely what I'm interesting in.
| hirundo wrote:
| I view HN titles via RSS and filter out phrases with Feedly.
| It's better than a beta blocker for blood pressure control.
| hivacruz wrote:
| Thanks for the tip! I will check. I'm already on beta
| blockers, unfortunately.
| [deleted]
| invisiblerobot wrote:
| I would like a sentiment analysis of the comments posted beside
| each article link. A kind of temperature reading. So you can
| guage if the comments are generally positive or negative and use
| that as a proxy for whether the article is considered valuable
| enough to click on.
|
| It's not perfect as conversations evolve away from the articles.
| But it would be useful I think.
| minimaxir wrote:
| In natural language processing and Hacker News in particular,
| it's often incorrect that a submission with mostly positive
| comments imply an article is valuable, and conversely a
| submission with mostly negative comments imply an article is
| not valuable.
|
| That rationale just leads to even more groupthink than usual
| for an online community.
| invisiblerobot wrote:
| That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying an article that is
| positive sentiment OR negative sentiment is INTERESTING
| enough to click on. An article with luke warm sentiment
| either way is less interesting.
| clairity wrote:
| more pointedly, comment sentiment is a naive and misleading
| signal of either submission or discussion quality. most
| simply because it's a poor proxy for _why_ , but also because
| quality is an amorphous concept that defies direct
| rationalization (i.e., being numericalized), among other
| factors.
|
| naive heuristics are also gamed more easily, especially
| because they have a tenous relationship to the desired signal
| in the first place.
|
| slightly more interesting would be absolute value of comment
| sentiment, which would be a (still naive) measure of
| controversy/engagement. to really get at quality and value,
| you'd have to consider comment semiotics/semantics (the
| symbolic meaning and content), which complicates the effort
| exponentially (perhaps impossibly so).
| creamynebula wrote:
| Maybe the quality of submission is not what's being judged,
| but whether or not the discussion itself is valuable. I for
| one prefer to read discussions in a positive tone...
| asadlionpk wrote:
| This looks like a good weekend hack, if nobody else is doing
| this I will do it.
|
| I have developed a similar extension for facebook feed.
| jonplackett wrote:
| I have an idea for a HN add on that I don't have time to make
| yet.
|
| I'd like to make a 'social media' version of HN that notifies you
| every time anyone upvotes your comment or post and generally bugs
| you in all the ways social media normally does. Just to see what
| it would be like.
| cyberbanjo wrote:
| https://hnnotify.xyz/
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