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Fyi, your links at the bottom don't work.

    <a href="https://github.com/montanaflynn/codehn" onclick="trackOutboundLink(this); return false;">(source code)</a>

Either the tracking thing or the `return false` is causing the click to not actually click. Let's be real: everyone on this site is blocking your tracking whatchamajig.

What browser are you using? I'm using Chrome and they work fine. It's just google analytics event tracking, and I can assure it's not blocked by everyone on HN.

Are you blocking trackers with something like ublock?

No I am not. I was interested in if people would click the bottom links and I have got quite a few events so far. I wonder if there is a way I could detect if google analytics is blocked and just fire the window location change.

Edit:

I added a check to make sure google analytics is not blocked, it should work for you now.

Thanks for letting me know.

Links to github already get tracking for free from github. Check out https://github.com/montanaflynn/codehn/graphs/traffic. It'll look like this: https://i.imgur.com/NQOjGbO.png (example from one of my projects)

Yeah I know about that, I wanted to play around with the links in the bottom and see what got clicked the most. I added a check to make sure google is loaded, can you try again?

:+1: lgtm

This is nice, but it would be better (and more useful than a plain HN search) if it included project data through the Github API, like stars, license, languages, etc.

I was planning to add a filter by language which I get from GitHub API but I like the idea of adding other metadata as well. Thanks for the suggestion.

It looks too similar to the official page. I'm not sure if in this cases they send a friendly email or a nastygram, but I think you should make some small changes in the look and feel so it's clear that it's a different site.

Also, does it only show the github links or it also shows the gitlab links?

Thanks for the feedback, I guess I tried to copy the style exactly except using newer html / css than tables. I'm thinking maybe a chrome extension might be a better choice for this, especially since the API leaves a lot to be desired.

It shows links for both github and gitlab links.

Edit: I changed the logo and favicon from a Y to a C.

It looks fine to me. You might make the top color different; then it would obviously be distinct.

> the API leaves a lot to be desired

Yes, it does. We're going to make a new API that gives you a simple JSON version of any HN URL. Would that address any of the concerns you encountered?

>We're going to make a new API that gives you a simple JSON version of any HN URL.

Oh, that would be amazing. I wanted to do an analysis of top level, second level, etc comments, but I looked at the API and thought better of it.

That would definitely be what I was hoping for.

The main problems I had were:

1. The stories endpoints were limited to 200 or 500 results, not paginated.

2. I had to loop over and send a request to all the individual stories to check if the url was from github or gitlab.

3. There was not an endpoint for "show new" (/shownew)

4. It was unclear from the docs what is shown on the website homepage (beststories or topstories?)

Ok, that's a good confirmation that it's the right approach. Sorry I don't have a timeline for you but we'll get there.

You might wanna take a look at https://github.com/cheeaun/node-hnapi for an alternative API

Hey HN! I've had this domain forever so finally decided to make a website for it.

I use the HN API to get the stories and then filter out any none code stories. Next up I will add a filter for programming language so you can easily see all the latest projects in your preferred language.

The server is written in Golang and I used nginx with Let's Encrypt for a free SSL certificate.

Wait, you can get a free SSL certificate? I thought it was always a paid service.

Let's Encrypt is all about giving people free SSL certs and basically any hosting provider worth its salt has started offering them for free to their customers: https://letsencrypt.org/

Totally free and took less then 10 minutes!

Specifically I used https://certbot.eff.org with nginx.

Yes! https://letsencrypt.org/

Perhaps this is just because of the current stories, but what's the difference between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com ?

That is pretty much what I hoped to create. I just didn't know about that, I wish I had because I've wanted this functionality for years.

One difference is that ?site=github.com seems to only work on the /from page so the results are not broken into top / new / best / show pages.

I'm also planning to add a filter so you can only see projects for your language of choice.

Cool! Wasn't knocking your project, just trying to understand. A language filter would be nice :)

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