Y Combinator: Bookmarklet

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103 points·sophie··8 comments

It's certainly a useful bookmarklet, but I worry that reducing the amount of work required to post a link will result in a much larger number of links being posted, further diluting the "new" page.

I kind of like knowing that the person submitting a link had to do more than just click a button on their link bar to get the story posted to HN.

This bookmarklet's been around for ages. Odds are you've upvoted tons of stories submitted using it. The quality of the linked content is what matters, not whether the submitter took the extra 30 seconds to copy and paste the title.

"... The quality of the linked content is what matters, not whether the submitter took the extra 30 seconds to copy and paste the title. ..."

But @jknupp has a point. Simple tools in the hands of the responsible if fine. It only takes one or two irresponsible users.

This is somewhat true. I farmed a few hundred karma last week combining the HN bookmarklet with Reddit's new+rising search to pick up a handful of promising headlines on a weekday morning.

I felt smart until I realized that HN karma is its own reward. Now I'm back to mostly commenting.

I've used it for over two years.

I have been using this bookmarklet at least for last six months. The only thing is that sometimes people just adds articles without changing their titles which results in unrelated words like '| Weird | News' in the title.

Can someone please throw a brick at helen6388?

And what's up with the target story being the bookmarklet article from 12 days ago?

Don't try and click the link as I tried out of curiosity. It simply submits the bookmarklet page to HN.

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