Would be nice if the Github repo had an explanation of what it actually is.

Fair enough, I was hoping this HN discussion was enough. I wanted my code to be a discussion piece, or a starting point to improve. I don't think it's that usable for many people.

> I wanted my code to be a discussion piece, or a starting point to improve.

Easy improvement: A readme.md It'd be much easier to grasp what it is trying to achieve if it actually were described.

Hey, I quickly made this Chrome plugin in an hour or so to get all HN comments on one page. I hope there happen to be better versions of this out there, which is why I opened this thread to start a discussion about it.

And if there aren't any alternatives, then let's improve this together!

The best alternative is probably just not-doing that - the reason for the page splits is the performance of the HN back-end and hitting the site for all the follow-on pages might make the problem worse, not better.

Fair point, thanks for mentioning. I'll make a toggle in mine then, as I want it on a select few pages, but not on others.

There's a couple of Chrome extensions on https://github.com/adriel/awesome-hacker-news#browser-extens...

Imagine a future where we could put our code into a search engine and then get back apps/programs that have similar functionality...

We used to have it, and it was glorious, until Google tooketh away:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search

It was amazing to see similar code and to see how they approached things. Of course, if only really worked with snippets, but as a learner it was truly amazing.

I really wonder if they kept it for internal use.

If you're looking for a GCS replacement, Sourcegraph is a thing! We've taken a lot of inspiration from Google Code Search (both the public version and the internal version which was even better): https://sourcegraph.com

Forked from https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news

Sounds like if enough people use this then they should just make it the default. Or give people a user setting.

The ‘More’ link is apparently required due to server load; dang has stated that he’d like to get rid of it as soon as he can fix the underlying performance problems: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

why not autoload it on scroll... like after you get past 75% or something? Many sites have never-ending scrollers, FB as an example and you'd think as big as YC is they could afford someone who can figure out endless scrolling.

Endless scrolling was specifically rejected [1], and given how vociferous the HN community can be about such things I don’t blame them.

Also, comments can shift from page to page as their ranking changes, so a naïve implementation would end up with duplicates (for comments that fell down past the page boundary before the next page loaded) and missing items (for comments that rose up), and a more sophisticated implementation probably wouldn’t be worth the effort for something they want to get rid of.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291

For me, the use-case is pretty rare when I'd want it. But I do want it ;-)

I mostly want it when I simply want to CTRL + F the whole thread on certain keywords.

I'll create a toggle to minimize server load.