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60 pointsdoki_pen29 comments

On Mac OS X, spacebar means "page down" in web browsers. I was pretty surprised when I couldn't use it on this site.

That's a bug. I will fix.

UPDATE: fixed

Wow. The stuff that Embedly is doing is all kinds of awesome. I just wish Twitter would buy them so I didn't have to resort to manual hacks to actually use them.

Ironically, the one entry it completely fails at is this one.

Very nice. My only feature suggestion would be a way to hide articles, something I wish HN itself could do but perhaps more important when articles take up more vertical space.

This is gorgeous, nicely done. I find myself wanting a better way of going to the next story, because some articles are very long. Maybe you could add controls? For example, keyboard shortcuts or a floating "next" button (anchored with fixed position CSS).

Great idea. I was also thinking of a way to collapse articles, but I think I like your idea better! I'll work on it.

UPDATE: try j and k

I just added two more hotkeys. Here's what we have:

  j or right-arrow - down
  k or left-arrow - up
  c - toggle top comment
  d - toggle article content
  enter - follow article link
  shift+enter - open article link in new tab

Enjoy!

The hotkeys aren't working for me, and I get two errors on Chrome 10:

- Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL http://hn.embed.ly/ from frame with URL http://www.youtube.com/embed/yoqsZvSQSTs. Domains, protocols and ports must match.

- hn.embed.ly:3Uncaught TypeError: Object #<an Object> has no method 'shareaholic_publishers'

Try now.

Hotkeys working, thanks!

It's trivial features like this that seriously gets me to switch. The main reason why I switched to duckduckgo wasn't the privacy or better results, it was vi-like bindings.

On that topic, consider this additional binding scheme that DDG uses. J/K for up/down highlights items (articles in this case). Enter when one is focused opens it. Ctrl+Enter opens it in a new tab.

Try it now.

VERY NICE!

Any way to make it wider or is it optimized for mobile viewing?

Voting maybe?

Regardless, cool way to look at the top links / questions.

I'll be glad to add features if it gains any traction. The only reason I kept it thin was to prevent having to read long lines of text. I hate that. Maybe I can split it into columns or something.

I agree with you on this - long lines of text are hard to read and break the reader's concentration. Narrow is good for reading. Maybe you could have another column where people could choose the content that they wanted to see? ie, the "Comments" or "Ask" pages?

I really like the clean design, but part of what i love about HN is the fact that you can quickly scan 20+articles just by reading single sentences of text. I would like this format better if it had some type of flipbook functionality mapped to the left and right arrow keys, so I can quickly run through more content.

Try j and k. If you insist on arrows I can do it, it's just that they already do something(scroll if you have a really thin browser window).

Could not figure what this site is about in 30 seconds, lost interest

Pretty much the same thing here.

Here's my experience with whatever this is:

Went to linked page.

Saw a bunch of suspicious looking buttons that made me suspect clicking them might cause me to perform actions I do not want to perform on well-known sites I may currently be logged into in my current browser session.

Closed page.

The End.

Those are share buttons provided by shareaholic, I imagine if the rest of the page was missing it would seem a little fishy.

This is what I see in Chrome 8 on a Mac:

http://cl.ly/0U3d2B0E3y431s1C270X

Strange. I can't reproduce. It should look like this:

http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/2476-129201145015AM

I'll see if any mac friends can reproduce. It may have been a temporary outage or something.

UPDATE: I think my parser was breaking on something. I've added begin;rescue to tighten things up.

ditto on Chrome 9 on OS X.

I hear about embedly more and more. Good job, guys!

This is great, could see it be a good alternative if on another person's touch device.

At first I thought, "Why would I want to bother with this?" but a few minutes later I realized I was ten articles down having read more than usual for one visit.

Looks nice...

But I prefer the actual text based one, more info per pixel.

But keep it up.

Then, what is Tokyo Cabinet?

Nice job. Looks awesome

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