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Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by sidsavara on Thursday January 22, 2009 @05:11PM (#445456)
You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25 plus 5 latest). It's not a perfect solution, but at least I'll be aware it's there.

I understand that could lead to some nasty gaming of the system though, just the first idea I thought of.

Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by sharkbrainguy on Thursday January 22, 2009 @05:16PM (#445467)
or a little DSL for us to specify what we wanted on our homepage.

  (def homepage (page
                  (top 10)
                  (newest 5)))
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by pg on Thursday January 22, 2009 @08:39PM (#445771)
I'm planning to start letting people use code snippets to customize stuff, actually.
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by andreyf on Thursday January 22, 2009 @10:23PM (#445870)
Can we customize the ranking algorithm? Pretty please?
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by bprater on Thursday January 22, 2009 @08:48PM (#445780)
Awesome, this would give hackers a great way to show off their skills!
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by tlrobinson on Thursday January 22, 2009 @06:50PM (#445628)

  <FRAMESET rows="66%, 34%">
      <FRAME src="http://news.ycombinator.com/">
      <FRAME src="http://news.ycombinator.com/newest">
  </FRAMESET>
No? Not quite what you were looking for?
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by markatson on Thursday January 22, 2009 @10:38PM (#445882)
I prefer:

<FRAMESET cols="66%, 34%">

    <FRAME src="http://news.ycombinator.com/">

    <FRAME src="http://news.ycombinator.com/newest">
</FRAMESET>

Makes it easier to read because Y content is usually skinny and most new screens are wide. :)

edit: but I'm splitting hairs...

Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by sidsavara on Thursday January 22, 2009 @07:06PM (#445649)
A little ugly, but a good 80% solution =P

Reminds me of this article -

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Glove...

;)

Gloves!

Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by sidsavara on Thursday January 22, 2009 @05:23PM (#445485)
Now that I think about it, I am pretty sure something like this is possible with some greasemonkey/iframe magic

Still not a perfect solution as not everyone will install it - but a decent start eh?

Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by Xichekolas on Thursday January 22, 2009 @09:16PM (#445808)
Done!

HN Toolkit: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039

Install and turn on the 'Show new items at bottom of main page?' option.

Let me know if you have problems.

Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by sidsavara on Friday January 23, 2009 @01:56AM (#446082)
Cool! I installed it, and selected the option - and nothing happens. I still see 30 items at the bottom

Can you tell me the exact URL that I should be seeing it at? I see toolkit. When I use that I see the search YC buttons etc, but when I select that option specifically, nothing happens.

I am assuming http://news.ycombinator.com/ is the main page you are referring to right?

Edit: SOLVED. http://news.ycombinator.com/news - now all is well! =)

Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by Xichekolas on Friday January 23, 2009 @08:50AM (#446344)
Doh! the /news link is what I have bookmarked, so I didn't even think about just the index. Source has been updated to fix that.

Thanks!

Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by Xichekolas on Friday January 23, 2009 @03:11PM (#446983)
Just an update on this... the additions I made last night broke some stuff (and I apparently didn't test it well), so please update (as of now) to get fixes.

Specifically, splitview got broken and a couple other little things were acting funny.

Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by d0mine on Friday January 23, 2009 @12:47AM (#446023)

  s{
    var blacklist = GM_getValue('hndomains', '');
  }{
    var blacklist = GM_getValue('hnblacklist', '');
  }x;
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by Xichekolas on Friday January 23, 2009 @08:55AM (#446351)
Yeah I changed the name of that a couple versions back. If you want your old blacklist back, you can do something like:

  GM_setValue('hndomains', GM_getValue('hndomains', '') + ' ' + GM_getValue('hnblacklist', ''))
  GM_setValue('hnblacklist', '')
And then upgrade to the new version. In the future I'll try and be more conscious of upgrades when I change something like that.
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by d0mine on Friday January 23, 2009 @08:35PM (#447547)
I don't use the script. I'd just thought that 'hnblacklist' would be a better name.
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by bprater on Thursday January 22, 2009 @05:32PM (#445502)
Hey, I kinda like that idea!
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by vaksel on Thursday January 22, 2009 @05:46PM (#445521)
I like the reddit layout for this. At the top show the latest submission, granted the reddit thing is a little bit more complicated...but for HN you can get away with just showing the latest entry since there are so few new submissions
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by DTrejo on Thursday January 22, 2009 @05:59PM (#445545)
I've seen that increasingly they have been streaming by
Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by pedalpete on Friday January 23, 2009 @11:37AM (#446559)
Actually, i barely use the main page, as lots of stuff on that I've likely seen before. I come in, scan the top few items on the main page, and then jump into new and go through like two or three pages (until I'm caught up).

So for my personal preference, I'd probably be interested in seeing the newest stuff, and then maybe a column for 'most popular'.

I know it's unconventional, but...

Re:YHackers: Click that "New" link by light3 on Friday January 23, 2009 @12:56AM (#446036)
How about extra karma for the people who take time to up-mod new articles that eventually 'make it'?