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Is there a Hacker News embedd-able Button?

1 pointberecruited6 comments

I have the Hacker News plugin for Firefox and love it. Is there an icon to include on websites? I can't find one.

It looks like it isn't easy to hack one, either. When not logged in, the upvote link is a x?fnid=<random chars> link which times out. When logged in, the link is tied to your userid, and presumably checked against your login cookie.

Oh, I should mention the bookmarklet, though, which allows submission of sites: http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html. I don't use it, so I'm not sure if it upvotes already submitted stores. But I guess you could use its infrastructure to make a button. Something like:

    <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u='yoursite'&t='yourDesiredTitle'"><img src="http://ycombinator.com/images/y18.gif" /></a> (untested)

http://ycombinator.com/images/y18.gif

http://ycombinator.com/favicon.ico ?

I think he means the equivalent of a "digg this" button."

I hope not.

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