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Re:Show HN: hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News fron...
on Friday May 23, 2025 @05:43PM (#44076895)
Perhaps an inspired by https://hckrnews.com would be appropriate on the site?
btw, to those who want a dark mode for hcrknews, try: https://hckrnews.com/beta/
Re:Is anyone interested in a better Hacker News?
on Thursday July 04, 2024 @12:59PM (#40876387)
2 days late, but creator here -- this is as designed.
Every entry on hckrnews has hit the homepage, so 'all' is exactly that. The current homepage filter is simply a filter to show what is presently on the homepage of news.ycombinator.com.
But this is not the first time someone has been confused about the homepage filter, so I could probably explain that better somehow.
Re:Oura Ring 2 Teardown
on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:36PM (#23806747)
This matches my experience having received one Nov 2018 (and returning it a few weeks later). It was constantly getting my actual sleep times wrong, more often than not marking me as being asleep while watching tv in the evening.
After contacting support, their solution was an upcoming update to their app where I'd be able to edit the data so that I could override the app whenever I knew it was wrong. Which completely invalidates the primary reason to own this product. I mean, if I knew when I was asleep, why would I need a ring to track it?!
So given that it couldn't properly track sleep, doesn't track activity (by design), the only other purpose in my mind was to track HRV. And count me as skeptical of the accuracy of that data as well.
Re:The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat aren't healthier
on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:56PM (#20955033)
Re:The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat aren't healthier
on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:46PM (#20954901)
"Water, Pea Protein Isolate*, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, Rice Protein, Natural Flavors, Cocoa Butter, Mung Bean Protein, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Apple Extract, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Vinegar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sunflower Lecithin, Pomegranate Fruit Powder, Beet Juice Extract (for color)" vs "Beef" is a minuscule difference?
Re:The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat aren't healthier
on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:39PM (#20954819)
It's right here in bullet 1:
https://www.beyondmeat.com/about/
Plant based meat is "Improving Human Health", vs Animal based meat which according to them has "16% Increased cancer risk", and "21% Increased Heart Disease Risk.
Re:Testing KettlePizza and Baking Steel's New Joint Pizza Oven (2013)
on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @03:19PM (#19731920)
In fact Kenji reviewed some of these ovens two years ago:
https://www.seriouseats.com/2017/05/best-backyard-pizza-oven...
Re:Ask HN: How do you get your daily HN brief?
on Friday April 27, 2018 @05:04PM (#16944313)
That's what is intended -- it shows the items currently on the frontpage. So it will not show entry from the previous days because they are no longer on the frontpage. (The UI should not show the previous days in this case, and maybe there is something more I could be doing to make more obvious what is supposed to be happening).
Curiously the entries from April 6 that do show up is a bug due to an issue I had with the process going down for a number of hours, leaving those two entries not being properly updated to remove the 'homepage' flag.
Re:It's time to head back to RSS?
on Saturday March 31, 2018 @01:46PM (#16724271)
I had the same issue with Feedly's "features". I've maintained a stylish extension for Feedly that I keep adding to. Every time they add something that I don't want to see, I hide it via css. Thanks for the prompt, I just hid the patronising "Well done" that's been annoying me.
If anyone else wants to try to strip feedly back, they can try my css here: https://gist.github.com/wvl/4cd7d7d314fe9a544f2851296db61bb9
Re:Hcrknews.com (Flagged / Censored content can be seen)
on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:11PM (#14963398)
I find the chronological history of hckrnews.com adds context to why many things get flagged. For example, immediately after the bloomberg article was posted about Google firing the memo author, were several other articles with the same content (from arstechnica and nymag) which were immediately flagged. Any time an inflammatory subject gets beat to death, the same process happens.
So in that respect, I often agree with the submissions that get flagged (including this one), but I do think news.ycombinator.com could do a better job of collecting and displaying these flagged submissions. For example, duplicate submissions could be made children of the submission that was allowed to stay.
Re:Hcrknews.com (Flagged / Censored content can be seen)
on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:56PM (#14963246)
As an aside, I do find it interesting that this submission is nowhere to be found from the main page itself (or at least 5 pages back, despite 50 points and 17 comments. I guess it was flagged/vouched back, but having showdead on in your hacker news profile does nothing to help if the algorithm drops the submission into nowhereland.
That is reason enough for the existence of hckrnews.com, imo.
Re:Best board games from Essen 2016
on Sunday June 04, 2017 @01:13PM (#14482432)
Ars Technica had a 'best two player' guide a while back:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/04/table-for-two-our-fav...
AMA: Jason Fried, CEO and Co-Founder of Basecamp (formerly 37signals)
Re:A system that pours a glass of wine without opening the bottle
on Thursday December 25, 2014 @01:05PM (#8796753)
The Sweethome likes it, but it's expensive:
> "We tested the $300 Coravin system against Private Preserve, comparing bottles of wine that’d been saved for five days against a fresh bottle. While the Coravin-preserved bottle tasted more like the brand-new one, its price makes it impractical for many wine drinkers; it’s better suited for restaurant use, or serious oenophiles. For everyone else, Private Preserve is still the way to go."
http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-way-to-keep-open-wine-f...
Re:Hush – The World's First Smart Earplugs
on Monday November 17, 2014 @07:13PM (#8621697)
I'm intrigued by this product, however as someone who can sleep comfortably with earplugs, but find in-ear headphones to become uncomfortable after a couple hours, I'm not convinced.
I always thought the ideal product would be a comfortable, soft armband (think sport sweatband) with bluetooth and a vibration motor. This could be paired to the phone with an app similar to these earplugs, and then used with (or without) regular earplugs for noise dampening. Does such a product exist? Perhaps the Hush folks would consider making it as product number 2?
Re:Hacker News API
on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @04:28PM (#8423815)
Please consider opening up the issue tracker. Other people might benefit from seeing these issues, such as the issue about the comment count that I just raised as a comment here.
Re:Hacker News API
on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @04:23PM (#8423791)
Would it be possible to cache the number of comments a story has? Or am I wrong in my understanding that the only way to find the number of comments a story has is to walk the tree of child items and maintain my own count?
Re:An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
on Friday October 25, 2013 @02:57PM (#6613740)
Sorry if I never got back to you about this.
There were definitely some bugs around the filtering / content loading. I _think_ they've been resolved for a while now, so I hope you'll give it another shot.
Re:An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
on Friday October 25, 2013 @02:51PM (#6613694)
You can try /about again. Server was having problems there with the load.
FYI top 10 / top 20 / top 50% should be the "Top N" stories by number of points for each day according to your timezone.
Re:I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone exp...
on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @06:27PM (#6253711)
Note that you can use HackerWeb for the comments on hckrnews.com by going to settings.
Re:Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef
on Monday August 05, 2013 @02:26PM (#6161851)
> A commonly cited statistic is that cows produce more greenhouse gases than all the world’s transportation combined, or 18% of all greenhouse gases. ... [snip] ... A more accurate analysis of the data resulted in a much more respectable estimate: that cattle contribute less than 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
http://chriskresser.com/the-real-environmental-impact-of-red...
Re:Collapsible comments for Hacker News
on Sunday September 09, 2012 @06:10PM (#4497198)
fwiw, I published the extension on the chrome web store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mnlaodleonmmfkdhfo...
Re:Collapsible comments for Hacker News
on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @11:58AM (#4475102)
Huh, I never even realized that Chrome had removed the ability to install extensions from third party websites. I'll get that up on the chrome web store when I get some time.
Re:Redactor - javascript (jQuery) WYSIWYG editor
on Friday June 01, 2012 @01:26PM (#4054548)
Looking at this again 3 days later, it seems the license has been changed again. The license is now the "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license.", and they're charging for commercial use.
Re:Show HN: WYSIWYG-editing Markdown with Hallo Editor
on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @06:43PM (#3763847)
I probably didn't explain that well. There are plenty of non wysiwig markdown editors out there. The appeal of this demo is that you're editing the markdown source through a wysiwyg editor. However, with this demo, there are two authoritative sources of content, the html in the contenteditable, and the markdown. I'm arguing that there should only be a single authoritative source of content; and I'd like that to be markdown. I think it's possible, though difficult.
Re:Show HN: WYSIWYG-editing Markdown with Hallo Editor
on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @02:48PM (#3763026)
I want something like this quite badly. However, I'm not sure this is suitable for the users who I want this for (ie, people who don't need to understand markdown formatting)
1. Doing an html to markdown conversion, as you seem to be doing, feels like a giant hack. And one with leaky abstractions to boot (Hit enter off the end of a list, and you get <div></div> inserted into the markdown source).
2. Link editing is super important, and, also a very difficult problem (selection/range management issues) without the html to markdown problem added on top.
I think something like this is doable by having the transformation only happen one way (from markdown to html), given a markdown parser with full access to the parse tree. However, there's many other issues that would arise from doing it that way.
Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort
Re:MailerJS: Send email with client-side JavaScript
on Thursday February 23, 2012 @09:40PM (#3627766)
Interesting idea. This could be useful for signup and contact forms from a static website.
It's amusing to me that the contact link is just a mailto. Why not use MailerJS?
Re:MailerJS: Send email with client-side JavaScript
on Thursday February 23, 2012 @09:34PM (#3627748)
That was my first thought, however, from the docs:
MailerJS will send mail to the address you enter on your account page. You can't specify the receiver dynamically, as client-side JavaScript is publicly accessible by definition, and we want to protect you from spammers.
Why steal someone's api key just so you can send them email?