Re:How I read Hacker News
by lvecsey on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @04:04AM
(#79700)
Just get it to fill in new items automatically via javascript updates, and then we can leave it running full screen on a dedicated monitor. It then would become something of a medusa head though, because if you hope to get any regular work done you'll have to completely divert your eyes.
Re:How I read Hacker News
by akkartik on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @12:09PM
(#79769)
Hmm, but wouldn't it be annoying if it loads stuff on top while you're reading/clicking something? You'd lose your place on the page. I suppose I could create gmail-style update messages you have to click on. That loses the medusa-head character, though :)
I'm using page load as a surrogate for 'mark all as read', which keeps track of the state of the divider and so on. Keeps the UI simple.
follow is intended to be something you periodically focus on. With auto-reload stuff flows past you so fast I'm not sure what the dashboard-like view would convey above the fold. Especially since even new stuff vanishes below the fold on many occasions. Making something you can just glance at is much harder, I think.
Now if someone would just create a working RSS full-text feed for Paulgraham.com...
I'm using page load as a surrogate for 'mark all as read', which keeps track of the state of the divider and so on. Keeps the UI simple.
follow is intended to be something you periodically focus on. With auto-reload stuff flows past you so fast I'm not sure what the dashboard-like view would convey above the fold. Especially since even new stuff vanishes below the fold on many occasions. Making something you can just glance at is much harder, I think.
My way is more compact (http://www.seeksift.com/asp?act=relatedsrc&id=index&...) but I'll look at keeping the comments up-to-date the way you do.
It's certainly a good idea, as the hystry.com site shows.
It appears, though, that this site (yc news) doesn't have a comments feed, so adding them would be a bit involved.
The O.P. does a nice job of it on his site, which is probably why this entry rose to the top of yc news so fast.
Goal: See any headline exactly once. Ever.
In reality, it kinda resets itself whenever you restart the browser.
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http://hystry.com/newsyc/follow/?-render100
etc.
More details of the url parameters are on this page:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71827
One workaround: hover over the bottom right corner region and click on the 'O' to see all the slides in a single html page. Does that work?
Sorry about that.
off-topic: news.yc munged the 'phi' unicode character I laboriously copy-pasted between apostrophes above.