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The HackerNews repo is gone (and thus the issue), but at one point this was a Github issue I successfully filed to get HN to add it so their referral data for non-SSL pages wouldn't be lost: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/68 (Background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7197520) IIRC, I think the developer was open to adding a referral, but not have it leak any on-site information, so this was a compromise.

Side note: I use http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ multiple times a day and love it. But as to the bigger issue here: The maintainer of Hacker News website appears to be obstinate when provided suggestions, help and development time: [links] The current status is the developer has applied a viewport to a table-based layout and saw that it failed. This table-based layout has been in place since 2007, and I don't believe there have been any efforts by the owners to update it. I, and many others from the community, have volunteered code and time to upgrade the website but these contributions have been rejected by kogir. [links] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7330107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9480325 https://github.com/HackerNews/HN used to be open for reporting issues, but it h

Wow... it looks like this thread got dunked hard by the mods. Probably worth mentioning the 'bugs and feature requests' link in the page footer: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues...

Where does one start? https://github.com/HackerNews/HN seems to be for issue tracking only.

This is sort of interesting to look at, but not too reliable: it only shows users whose profiles happen to be swapped in to the in-memory Arc data structures whenever the list is regenerated. So from day to day, depending on post and caching and HN restart activity, different people are included or omitted. For example, at the moment raganwald isn't on the leaderboard, even though he has >40k karma, presumably because he hasn't posted in a bit, so his profile is swapped out of memory. I filed a bug about that but it got a WONTFIX [1]. I ran into that while putting together a profile of prolific HN posters [2]. I put it together a bit at a time over several days, and noticed that people were appearing and disappearing from the list, which seemed odd. I ended up finding a third-party list on Heroku that was more stable day-to-day [3]. Howev

The bugs and feature request queue got much better recently. In the past it was just a long and disorganized comment thread. https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues

You should open an issue https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues

It would be nice if there were a section dedicated to talking about startup ideas. And I think a lot of people would agree. What do you guys think? For example: my little brother has been buying and selling things on e-commerce sites. He finds arbitrage opportunities. He sees that something is being sold on one site for less than the going rate on another site and takes advantage of the opportunity. I was thinking that there should be some sort of web crawler that finds these arbitrage opportunities. 1) Does it exist? 2) If not, why not? Is it a good idea? Is it technically feasible? HN would be the perfect place to discuss things like this because of the strong community. Note: I already posted this in the feature request section (https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/121), but it didn't get much attention and I think it's important, s

A responsive version that works better on mobile is coming[1] [1]https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/104

This comes up so often. However, https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/104

There is a Github you can use to open issues, specifically #96 https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/96 There are also these mobile-web alternatives: http://hnmob.org/ http://ihackernews.com/ You can also look at the source for HN, http://arclanguage.com/ And some other places on github likely; it's not easy to get that code running. Also, I'm not sure it's easy to make the updates. Plus, Nick is very busy.