HNLive
Consumer and social
hacker news client
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
1 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.36.
Execution: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful as a second-monitor dashboard and for spotting new discussions
From 2 comments
Nice. This would be good as part of a dashboard on a second monitor. Request: I'd love to see domain names included. Submitter usernames would also be nice as long as it doesn't…
tagawa on HNThis is great. When I go to the new page, one of the first things I look for is articles where a conversation is just starting. This makes it really easy to see which submissions…
japhyr on HN
Objections
Not truly real time; polls the API every 10 seconds instead of pushing
From 2 comments
Not really "real time". See [2] (quoted below). `function update() { $("#live").load("/get_links/hot"); } setInterval(update, 10000);update();` Polling per se is ok but you…
lambdacomplete on HNIt seems to be a jQuery bit of code querying the api every 10 seconds. No push or anything of the sort, so that's a bit of a shame.
Zyst on HN
Character encoding errors with smart quotes
From 2 comments
Hi there I found a character rendering issue. HN front page: "Why do people keep coming to this coupleâs home ..." HNLive front page: "Why do people keep coming to this…
kentosi on HNNeat. Another issue along with the others mentioned is something is probably wrong with the text encoding. Some punctuation is displayed incorrectly.
vaguilar on HN
Point and comment counts are sometimes inaccurate
From 2 comments
Seems like the points and comments numbers are often inaccurate. Sometimes they're right but other times way off. Any idea what's happening there?
dimfeld on HNNice. This would be good as part of a dashboard on a second monitor. Request: I'd love to see domain names included. Submitter usernames would also be nice as long as it doesn't…
tagawa on HN
Requests
Show comment links or comment pages
From 2 comments
Suggestion: add links of comments. Many people like reading comments at Hacker News. Users have to open the original HN home page to open comments. btw, I created another HN web…
vinceyuan on HNNice. This would be good as part of a dashboard on a second monitor. Request: I'd love to see domain names included. Submitter usernames would also be nice as long as it doesn't…
tagawa on HN
Show domain names and submitter usernames
From 1 comment
Nice. This would be good as part of a dashboard on a second monitor. Request: I'd love to see domain names included. Submitter usernames would also be nice as long as it doesn't…
tagawa on HN
Questions
What stack powers it and how is the push done
From 1 comment
What can you tell us about the stack powering this? It's gunicorn; I was hoping to see hendrix. :-) How are you doing the push?
jMyles on HN
Alternatives named
hckrnews.com
From 1 comment
Look at http://www.hckrnews.com/ It does about the same thing. It is instructive to compare the two and understand one is more usable than the other.
nine_k on HN
Hacker News Room
From 1 comment
Suggestion: add links of comments. Many people like reading comments at Hacker News. Users have to open the original HN home page to open comments. btw, I created another HN web…
vinceyuan on HN
hnews.xyz
From 1 comment
I guess everybody has it's own clone. With Firebase opening up the dat, it's quite trivial to build your own Here is my version: https://hnews.xyz/#/ It grabs the preview of the…
valentinvieriu on HN
hnwatch
From 1 comment
when I wrote hnwatch last year, there were some "issues" with the firebase feed, but for the most part the firebaseio goods are in fact realtime.
2ton_jeff on HN
react-hn
From 1 comment
It works pretty well, but there are still some "issues" you need to deal with: - Items for users with a delay configured get posted to the API before their content is made…
insin on HN