My side project
Productivity
web page archiving
SHOW HN2010
How HN took it
3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Execution: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 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.
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What HN said
What people liked
Nice visual layout for a one-day project
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool. Very well laid out and aesthetically pleasing for a 1 day project. Congrats!
Travis on HN
Useful for proving information was published at a specific time
From 1 comment
This would be incredibly useful for publicly traded corps to help prove that they made information public at a specific time (i.e., disclosure requirements were met).
9oliYQjP on HN
Useful to share screenshots with friends
From 1 comment
Pretty neat and useful. May be you have already thought about it but I felt the need to forward/share that screen shot with my friends.
ssing on HN
Objections
Screenshots taken on every trivial change, needs a change threshold
From 1 comment
Looks neat. You might need a threshold in changes made. Seems like most websites have small irrelevant things that change on every visit. Like number of comments on techcrunch,…
kapitalx on HN
Hour numbers in boxes look like dates, confusing
From 1 comment
I assumed the large numbers were dates, when they are actually times (13 = 1 pm, not the 13th). I'd either use 'am/pm' or add ':00' to each time to make this more apparent. Large…
johnrob on HN
Google page breaks due to cache-busting parameter
From 1 comment
Nice. Something's up with www.google.com though http://www.snaprobot.com/www.google.com?&sl=0&d=1
_grrr on HN
Requests
Add a change threshold to ignore minor changes
From 1 comment
Looks neat. You might need a threshold in changes made. Seems like most websites have small irrelevant things that change on every visit. Like number of comments on techcrunch,…
kapitalx on HN
Easier sharing, such as permalink short URLs
From 1 comment
Pretty neat and useful. May be you have already thought about it but I felt the need to forward/share that screen shot with my friends.
ssing on HN
Questions
How the screenshots are generated
From 1 comment
That is pretty neat. Would it be giving it away if I asked how you generated the screenshots?
mikelbring on HN
Alternatives named
archive.org
From 1 comment
I find myself taking screenshots of websites all the time. Pages that I find visually interesting, because I've had far too many experiences where I went back and it looks like a…
daverecycles on HN
webkit2png
From 2 comments
f.ex. like this python webkit2png.py -x -o hn.png http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://www.alexezell.com/code/webkit2png.txt
zalew on HNMore up to date version of webkit2png: https://github.com/AdamN/python-webkit2png There's also an OS X version available: https://github.com/paulhammond/webkit2png/
uggedal on HN
Watir and browser automation
From 1 comment
Thanks. There's a number of tools to generate screenshots, including browser automation (sometimes used for testing) and third-party APIs. I'm using the WebThumb API right now:…
daverecycles on HN
Selenium and Castro
From 1 comment
At Sauce Labs, we use a combination of the Selenium API for taking screenshots and Castro for recording movies of browser pages. Things get fun when you can click button, type…
hugs on HN