Hacker News Reader

Comment by nigamanth | Hacker News Reader

The gadget looks cool. Just wondering though, can you turn off the notification for karma changes? Imagine if someone's post gets to the #1 spot, then their karma would be changing rapidly.

Can it notify you when you reach a new milestone in karma? (1000 karma, 500 karma)

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Yes, please this.

Over time I've come to sort of despise the karma system. Some low karma accounts are amazing, some high karma accounts are tools (imho), and I wish there was a way to remain logged in yet ignore karma, except for maybe one update per day max. It is often an unhelpful distraction to me, personally.

You can use the uBlock Origin "Block element" feature to hide the karma and post scores.

Makes sense. However, on mobile this is a trickier challenge.

Brave on mobile is tough to beat. "It just works."

relatedly i wonder if there's existing tooling for getting notifications/daily recaps of comments made by high karma accounts (or accounts you choose to follow) - always felt like this was a missing feature in HN

For real, I wish I could follow people and then their new posts would come up on my feed.

You can follow any user on HN with rss.

https://hnrss.github.io/

Although not exactly that, here's a telegram bot I made with a bunch of features related to notifications from HN: https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot

Maybe I'll add such notifications in the future

Some low karma accounts are amazing, some high karma accounts are tools (imho)..

Why would you attack me like this? ;)

Thank you! Definitely; right now it only checks whether the latest karma does not equal the previous karma: https://github.com/jareklupinski/hackernews-badge/blob/main/...

Changing the condition for this branch, for example to

if ((previousKarma + 500) < userKarma || (previousKarma - 500) > userKarma) {

would make the notification go off when the karma has changed by at least 500. For high value accounts, the variables should probably be changed to 'long's as well... I enjoyed the light show tonight ;)

If this is so important why not just add a widget to your desktop next to the clock. Why create a whole new device? I like the fun nature of building kits like this though.

personally I full-screen between 3 apps on my work mac, as a way to devote that real-estate to only work-relevant stuff. if I added a hacker news widget to my work desktop, I would be too distracted and never get any work done :)

this way I can glance at the widget whenever I'm feeling a bit bored and open the page on my phone, then take a break away from my desk with the content in my hand

It's just an AVR microcontroller with some dead simple C code(technically C++ but there's no reason to use C++ features very much).

The easiest way to configure it would be to just change the code.

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