A Problem With Hacker News

Step 1: Google "hacker news userscript open links in new tab" Step 2: Second Result "Hacker News | // ==UserScript== // @name news.yc open in new ta" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128307) (Screenshot: http://o7.no/KClBIc) Step 3: Copy that to a file called newtab.user.js Step 4: Open that file in Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Any Browser that supports userscripts and install

Now on to your second gripe, would you rather have HN iframe in the link and add a banner bar at the top? No one liked it back when Digg tried it and no one will like it now, I'm sure if you wanted you could write a userscript (or add on the the other one) so that on link click it added an iframe under the link to the bottom of the page and shrunk the top to just visible enough to see the link title the up vote button and a close button that was added in to allow for removing the iframe.

However that would still be susceptible to framekillers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framekiller and we come back to the main reason, you want a way to be able to vote after you have "inspected" the content without having the remember to go click the link on HN. Yeah, that would be a nice feature, if there was an api and a way to authenticate users and their votes then someone could write a userscript/chrome app/FF plugin that and a HN up arrow in the top right/left of any page that existed in HN's library of links. That way even if you didn't get to the article via HN you can still up vote it on HN. Alas.

Next time don't go complaining about things you can easily find answers to and problems that are impossible to solve at this time.

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