SAsamelawrence·Mar 14, 2022
Could we just add it to HN Special? https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn-special
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hn-special
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gabrielecirulli / hn-special
hn-special
A modern theme for Hacker News, with some added niceties.
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A modern theme for Hacker News, with some added niceties.
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Observed mentions: 2014-01-13 08:23:00 UTC to 2022-03-14 13:26:58 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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6 sourcesAlmost all new cool extensions are now created only for Chrome. The last similar thing I saw was: https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn-special This makes me seriously question why I'm sticking with my Firefox nightly.
Will there be a Firefox port? or are you using some Chrome specific APIs?
In Show HN: An Efficient Way to Browse Hacker NewsI wasn't aware /r/gamedev invented Screenshot Saturday, but I do know it's very popular among all game developers[0]. I like the idea of a similar weekly tradition for HN. Weekly feedback is great motivation, and the ideas that come out of here are often superb. That being said, screenshots are not the best format for every progress report. It works well for game developers because such a large part of games is visual, but that's not the case for a lot of things hackers might be working on. Something like "Side Project Saturday[1]" would work much better.
Another problem is agreeing on who would post these weekly threads. If something semi-official wasn't decided on people may race to be the first to post every Saturday because of the guaranteed karma, which would lead to threads starting at pessimal times. While the optimal time would be
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9 AM EST[2] for maximum exposure, people might be posting the second it turns midnight (or even earlier), which would lead to empty threads and ultimately the death of the tradition. Perhaps a novelty account could be created just for the sake of posting these threads with no affiliation to anyone in it's bio, in the same way there's the user "whoshiring"[3].
To follow the rules of this thread: This week I've been working on my Snapchat Marketing SaaS app. I recently lost a lot of my backend work, so rather than immediately rewrite the code I lost I'm focusing on the frontend part to keep my morale high. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/d3La9td.png
Edit: Oh yeah, I also forked "HN Special" and added the ability to save posts for later: https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn-special/pull/58#issuec...
[0] https://twitter.com/search?q=screenshotsaturday
[1] It even follows the "S" formation!
[2] http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
Really addictive and well done!
Wanted to add that the author also created HN Special, an extension for Chrome that makes HN look decent and adds some useful niceties. https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn-special
In 2048Same for me! As I said in another comment I use that [1]. Which makes the whole experience perfect for me. (Bigger letters, flat design, and stuff..)
[1] https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn-special
In Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned?To avoid that I use this website: http://hckrnews.com/
Maybe you should take a look. Just simple and useful.
And to share everything I also use a theme for HN. It makes the design a little more as a flat design and with bigger letters which is especially what I wanted.
https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn-special
In Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned?