HN Reader

oh boy I wrote one of these many years ago for HN.

Within like an hour or two pg emailed me asking me to stop. I didn't know it at the time, but HN was being run on a rusty potato and scraping the homepage every 5 or 10 seconds was causing significant load.

Cool!

Would be slightly more contextual if the title of the original post was displayed.

Of course, the next thing is to watch for edits and deletes. What gets written and then gets thought better of. What does raw and unfiltered HN think?

Writing this comment just to see how quickly it shows up

Edit: Felt like it took almost a minute, I wasn't timing precisely because I didn't expect it to take so long!

This is pretty sweet

Fun! A css animation would make the updates less jarring and the feed easier to read

This is so cool. Waiting to see my own comment

Pretty cool! I must manually refresh to see new posts. Implementing real-time updates (e.x. via WebSocket or Server-Sent Events) would significantly improve usability.

Bets on how overwhelmingly negative the comment sentiments are? Anyone got an LLM handy to analyze that

Another great use of the HN API! It would be nice to filter it somehow to threads where I have commented, sometimes I don't notice until days later that someone replied to me.

To shill my own use of the API:

I did an animated "replay" view for historical threads like Rust 1.0 launch: https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=9551937

And a (static, refreshable) view of recent activity grouped by topic: https://hn.unlurker.com

I did this too: https://hn.hotgarba.ge/

Edit: Through my own tool I see this comment got insta-marked as [dead], rude.

Cool idea.

Separately I didn’t know posts/submissions could be instantly flagged dead and I didn’t know there are decade+ old bots still configured to spam this site https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VivaTechnics

(2024) Show HN from the dev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39509910

If you want a live version of most of the site (including tracking new comments in items you've already looked at), I made this to improve my React skills when the HN API first came out:

https://insin.github.io/react-hn

I often wonder if dang and tomhow have something like this running.

Source code: https://github.com/jerbear2008/hn-live

And live firebase source/api (run by HN) used for this: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

(just making sure it's obvious - I didn't create this site! all credits to @jerbear4328 who is here on HN - I'll email them to let them know it's trending) :-)

I checked the github repo and I found out that its a single static html page and ahh I forgot to see that its hosted on github.io as well because of their static hosting, somehow I didn't see it!!

Static hosting is super cool and I am going to tinker with it to have monospace-web instead for something like this https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/

Thanks a lot for creating this! Appreciate it, I haven't read the source code but I am going to read it oneday (If I don't procastinate lol)!

Have a nice day!

It works, but I'd advise about using the same branding. Consider making it significantly different than the website's comments page to avoid any issues, since it's not part of the webapp nor sanctioned.

This is awesome!