mbpr

Re:Show HN: A different interface for reading Hacker News on Monday February 21, 2011 @12:15PM (#2246163)

ha cool . . . pretty similar to something I crudely put together awhile back:

http://hackskimmer.heroku.com

it uses viewtext to make things 'readable', which unfortunately seems to be choking right now

I wanted to put something together to let me get through hackernews quickly when i didn't want to get caught up in the comments.

Re:China Steps Up Web Censorship on Sunday January 30, 2011 @02:52PM (#2158949)

why? is the story not true? please explain . . .

Re:Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere) on Friday January 28, 2011 @02:28AM (#2151101)

Renesys' network sensors showed that Egypt's four primary Internet providers — Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr — and all went dark at 12:34 a.m.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5heO3VMhFHp...

Frightening.

Re:Better Ways to Read "Hacker News" on Thursday December 02, 2010 @02:03AM (#1961344)

i threw this together a while ago, when i was spending too much time reading comments http://hackskimmer.heroku.com/

hackskimmer.heroku.com: skim HN stories, avoid the comments

Posted by mbpr on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @12:28PM
from the hackskimmer.heroku.com dept.

http://hackskimmer.heroku.com/

I put hackskimmer.heroku.com together to help me get value out of hacker news without getting sucked into the comments section. Its not perfect but gives me what I need.

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Re:Fabricly (YC W10) launches threadless for fashion and raises money on Friday November 19, 2010 @01:50AM (#1920679)

isn't this a relaunch? didn't fabricly originally set out to connect apparel cos with suppliers?

Re:Hashrocket execs (not Obie) charged in $425 million mail fraud case on Friday July 02, 2010 @08:56PM (#1482881)

while not illegal, the direct marketing online yellow pages biz is shady as hell, comparable to online lotto's, online deals and foreclosures database purveyors, and "punch the monkey"-style advertisers (all legal businesses that employ many people). Not something I'd consider as a value-added business, more sucker-traps than anything else. The fact that "yellow pages" and the logo are up in the air makes that entire industry a massive gray area. I wouldn't want to be associated with that. What would we say if 37signals launched a bargain network service tomorrow? . . . not illegal, but goodwill down the drain.