Hacker News Hack
Consumer and social
hacker news client
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
9 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 6 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Design: 3 for, 4 againstIdea: 4 for, 2 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 way to find HN stories by category and popularity
From 4 comments
looks like a lot of data have not been indexed yet, the concept is extremely useful, and would like to see psychology as one of the categories, they are my favourite type of…
level09 on HNThis is great! I would also love the ability to collapse entire threads, this is something I never understood why it doesnt exist.
11185d on HNBrilliant work thanks!
acd on HNThis is super useful! I have been forcing myself off HN lately. One thing that I miss the most due to this is the SHOW:HNs of really cool products and hacks that hit the front…
monsterix on HN
Good domain name and memorable
From 1 comment
Out of all third party UIs for Hacker News I've seen (and have since forgotten the URL for) you probably have the best domain name. It's clever and memorable.
herokusaki on HN
Objections
Category tagging is inaccurate; business and other categories contain off-topic stories
From 2 comments
I'm not sure that the "business" category means what you or I expected it to mean. It's certainly nothing to do with being an entrepreneur - as I write this there are four…
ScottWhigham on HNIt would be useful if each article could have its tag displayed. In that way when looked at "all" I could start to get an idea of what the tags mean to the system. At the moment…
ColinWright on HN
Time calculations broken (item.time_str shown unrendered)
From 2 comments
Pretty neat! FYI: I just noticed your time calculations aren't working. Search for "item.time_str" on your indexes.
GigabyteCoin on HNI like this alot. BUG: item.time_str isn't evaluating when I select a category.
dhimes on HN
Layout unusable on mobile and font too small
From 2 comments
Looks awful on mobile would be great if you could make it responsive.
tehaaron on HNI find the font uncomfortably small - make the styling more like HN?
cogware on HN
Some categories, like jokes, have too little content
From 2 comments
Awesome! Too bad jokes category does not have a lot of content, pity.
TrainedMonkey on HNVery useful! Would be good if you could adjust the time-range with respect to the category i.e. for a popular category, 1 day of news is great but something like jokes -…
harryf on HN
Requests
Add a startup or entrepreneur category
From 2 comments
It's a sad commentary on the current demographics here that there is no "entrepreneur" category at all. And that the next closest thing, "business" has only 3 articles, none of…
jasonkester on HNIt would be useful to have a category for startups. I find that's the content I most look for here.
j45 on HN
Show tags next to each article
From 1 comment
It would be useful if each article could have its tag displayed. In that way when looked at "all" I could start to get an idea of what the tags mean to the system. At the moment…
ColinWright on HN
Responsive mobile design
From 2 comments
Looks awful on mobile would be great if you could make it responsive.
tehaaron on HNI find the font uncomfortably small - make the styling more like HN?
cogware on HN
Open source the NLP code
From 1 comment
That's really interesting. Will you open-source the NLP algorithm?
xux on HN
More categories and ability to exclude categories
From 1 comment
Very nice, would it be possible to have a larger selection of categories, and the option to exclude certain categories for a more fine grained front page? Also, I believe you…
ewoodrich on HN
Questions
How are categories determined?
From 1 comment
Very nice. How you determine categories?
joaomsa on HN
How often is data crawled and what sort order is used?
From 1 comment
This is interesting. But it's not quite sync with the News on the first page. What do you sort by? If it works well, I'd like to use it.
dclara on HN
Alternatives named
showinghn.com and hnshowcase.com for Show HN posts
From 2 comments
http://showinghn.com/
kohanz on HNhttp://www.hnshowcase.com/
cheeaun on HN
hnstream.com for HN data access
From 1 comment
If you're hitting HN's access thresholds, you might consider incrementally parsing data from http://hnstream.com That may help with analyzing comment content at least. Not so…
jkarneges on HN
Hacker Newsletter weekly email
From 1 comment
I have been forcing myself off HN lately You might want to checkout my newsletter which includes the best "show hn" links each week - http://hackernewsletter.com. It also helps…
duck on HN