[HN Gopher] Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles
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       Show HN: Quickly scan HN for new articles
        
       I have a dedicated HN tab that I come back to and reload multiple
       times a day to see whats new and hot.  I wrote a Chrome Extension
       to:  - quickly scan new articles since my last reload - quickly
       scan highly discussed articles - open actual articles and
       discussions in a new tab  This links to the source code. The chrome
       extension is linked at the bottom of the github page.  Note:  -
       This extension only operates on the HN front page
       (https://news.ycombinator.com/news) - The first time you reload the
       HN front page after installing the extension all articles will get
       highlighted.
        
       Author : bachmitre
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2024-06-14 13:03 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | giancarlostoro wrote:
       | I do this too, sometimes I wonder what all has changed in 24hrs,
       | so this is great. I will even keep a tab open untouched so I can
       | see what was open before, and open a new one. Making "snapshot
       | tabs" if you will.
        
       | frfl wrote:
       | I've defaulted to this https://hckrnews.com/ intead of HN
       | homepage. This is ordered by time rather than rank.
        
         | ljoshua wrote:
         | Same here. Saves me so much time and very reliable. There are
         | also a few settings one can tweak (limit to homepage or top X%,
         | for example) to make it even better.
        
       | jedberg wrote:
       | This is awesome! On an unrelated note, anyone have good resources
       | for converting chrome extensions to Safari?
       | 
       | I found this and will try it later if no one has a better
       | suggestion:
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/10meyn5/how_to_conv...
        
         | gabrielsroka wrote:
         | I thought Safari and Firefox were supposed to start supporting
         | Chrome's webextensions.
         | 
         | I've had some luck with Firefox although there are differences.
         | I haven't tried Safari.
        
           | jedberg wrote:
           | I don't see a way to install an extension that isn't in the
           | Safari store, other than that link I found on reddit. But I
           | could definitely be missing something.
        
             | bluish29 wrote:
             | You will need to build it using xcode and install it like
             | ordinary app (On MacOS at least)
        
             | gabrielsroka wrote:
             | I meant they support the standard. If you have the source
             | code. I didn't mean that Safari can install them directly
             | from Chrome's store.
        
       | pluc wrote:
       | Or you could just use RSS...
        
         | petercooper wrote:
         | Indeed: https://hnrss.github.io/
         | 
         | I have my own script that filters the firehose for topics I'm
         | interested in into a new RSS feed and subscribe to that, so I
         | see every single submission that might vaguely interest me.
        
       | gabrielsroka wrote:
       | I was wondering why the extension is so large. It includes a
       | 500KB PNG. Perhaps the shell script was supposed to exclude it
       | from the zip file.
        
       | lovegrenoble wrote:
       | Thank you, very useful
        
       | smusamashah wrote:
       | I made this user script that does the same. Uses localstorage,
       | when you come back and refresh, if there were new stories, it
       | adds `(NEW)` in green before the title.
       | 
       | Also added a comment count change in there recently.
       | 
       | https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/e7c9ed3936ba69e522f8cb38...
        
       | adolph wrote:
       | This is interesting but seeing the same headlines over and over
       | does two things for me:                 * internal opening-HN-
       | too-much alert       * headline spaced repetition learning
        
       | disillusioned wrote:
       | Slightly unrelated, but I've been using a similar Stylish theme
       | to this one for years and it makes my HN experience much more
       | readable and enjoyable:
       | https://userstyles.org/styles/46180/georgify-for-hacker-news
        
       | qingcharles wrote:
       | Now I just need to rework it for my favorite HN front page
       | viewer:
       | 
       | https://hackernews.betacat.io/
        
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