Re:Sortable Hacker News
by taitems on Monday July 27, 2009 @12:11AM
(#725365)
A "HN Labs" style concept would be amazing. I know it probably goes against the HN mentality, but a gmail style label system would be so useful. "Javascript", "Press", "Databasing" etc.
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That'd be quite cool: Allow users to create javascript plugins for the site. Could have a karma minimum limit to be listed as a list of "labs" plugins.
People could tackle things like layout, sort, hide/show karma, display an iFrame of the content, etc.
But the security implications would probably be completely unacceptable. Ah well.
You already can create JS plugins for HN with Greasemonkey.
I have one which currently:
- hides links based on domain (like techcrunch.com)
- hides links based on words appearing in the title (like gogaruco)
- highlights names of known posters and adds a string describing them ("somenick" becomes "somenick: Firstname Lastname (Companyname)")
- makes comment boxes bigger
- adds a margin at the bottom
Yeah, but I use Safari. There's GreaseKit, which I have installed, but I've had little success getting it to work with regular GreaseMonkey scripts.
Is it available somewhere?
I cleaned it up a bit (removed names, etc) and uploaded it here: http://lexandera.com/public/hackernews.user.js
There's a configuration section at the top which you need to customize.
Cool! Thanks!
Re:Sortable Hacker News
by Xichekolas on Monday July 27, 2009 @10:42AM
(#725912)
There are several GM scripts for this site:
But as you suggest, karma limitations would mitigate security issues. Updates could also be reviewed and controlled by moderators.
I only suggest this because quite often you see websites (like the above) popping up on externally hosted servers, when they could potentially integrate into HN.