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Comment by Meph504 | Hacker News Reader

This would be far more interesting if you shared how, and did it on a platform that wasn't meant for short form content.

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Writing a quick Github gist, sorry haha, I'll post a link here in a few minutes.

Edit: https://gist.github.com/adtac/eb639d3c707b55a28f0ee9a420aa7e...

Ok, we've changed the URL above to that one from https://twitter.com/adtac_/status/1820127470613622950, which it includes.

The twitter thread has the demo, which is pretty neat. Github link is lacking that (maybe the author can add the demo to that).

dang, can we merge this thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155177 or vice versa?

Sure.

I did not expect your username to be dang, I thought he meant it as a figure of speech like "dang"

Dan G. IRL

Legend.

Thanks!

Here's a direct MP4:

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1820127349548982272/vi...

You could probably direct link it in markdown to embed it, although i'm not sure if Twitter will serve it on a high-traffic gist like this one after a while (I imagine there's some sort of rate limit-based hotlink protection).

10 updoots for u kind sure.

Can it cause my Kindle to get bricked?

Probably. Jailbreaking is always a risk, and you should research and understand the risks before undertaking.

You said this much more constructively that I might - I really dislike when people post long form stuff on X/Twitter. For those who may not know you can reply to a tweet with “@threadreaderapp unroll” to have a reconstructed doc sent to you. The bot will reply directly to you and only you after the unrolling is complete. Hope that helps someone.

I know this one has been fixed, but I also find those an annoyance - more so because if you're not logged in on twitter, you only see the first tweet, not the thread. So rather than get irritated when I click through stories, I block the links on HN with ublock-origin rules like so:

    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=twitter.com"])
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=twitter.com"])+tr
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=x.com"])
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=x.com"])+tr
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=medium.com"])
    news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href^="from?site=medium.com"])+tr

2 rules each because the replies and the story titles don't share a common parent element. eg right now I can tell from the numbers beside the stories that number 23 is missing; but otherwise HN looks the same. The same trick works for google search results; I have rules like the ones below to block less useful tutorial sites when I'm looking for python/js docs:

    google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.w3schools"])
    google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.geeksforgeeks"])
    google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://realpython.com"])
    google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.programiz"])
    google.com##div:has(>div>div>span>a[href^="https://www.datacamp"])

Hope this helps folk too; I'm not going to fight a battle over links to these sites (and others I've blocked), I'm just trying to improve my own experience of the site.

I do something similar with Google search results. I hide results from Pinterest, Quora, TikTok, ...

I can recommend uBlacklist for that: https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs also supports other search engines

That requires you to have a twitter-account though...

Interesting that you perceive hn as a platform for short form content.

Twitter is where his link points...

Yeah, I figured that out about 6 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41158720

Though it did already point to the gist back then, and I am still unsure how I can tell it pointed to twitter originally.

Thanks though?

> I am still unsure how I can tell it pointed to twitter originally.

You can usually find a comment by dang saying something like "we've changed the URL from <old link>".

They were talking about the original link to a tweet

Ah, missed that.

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