Show HN: Share, rediscover and keep track of all the gems you find on HN

Alternatively you can just upvote the stories you want to save and then go to your HN profile.

"Share, rediscover and keep track of all the gems you find on HN"

By 'gems' I initially assumed they were talking about Ruby gems.

I'm a Firefox user so I couldn't try it and went on to read the comments instead, especially since the linked website didn't explain anything.

It may be interesting to you that I didn't really understand what this is doing until I read the following comment from citricsquid (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656462): "Yeah, I save lots and it's always the ones that I don't save that I want after the fact, heh :("

So, this extension allows to search through all the stuff user clicked on from HN? That's great!

If that's true, I'd change the title to this: "Share, rediscover and keep track of everything you find on HN" and also do a better job of describing what it's doing on the website.

P.S. Does it also search the content on all those pages linked from HN?

This is really cool. I was just thinking I needed something like this the other day.

One thing that's not clear to me is how to use the Chrome extension? Is there anything for it to "do" or is it just a background thing that injects info into pages?

Why does this extension require access to my data on all websites, and not just HN?

Does this rely on an external server (assuming so with the API key) and if so how taxing is it for you, is it just going to become too expensive one day and get shut down, or is operation trivial?

It's a really great idea, I had exactly this problem earlier with reddit (I saw a submission about the redbull stratos jump that had a comment I was interested in, but I couldn't relocate the submission...) and it's happened here before too.

in your free time ;o) could you add a way to track users here? i think it would help the site by making personalities more persistent. the idea is that you can associate (private) comments with different users - perhaps they would be displayed when you moused over the username. then you could, for example, add "nice person; helped with XXX" next to someone and try harder to help them out some point later...

It was done by a few friends during Rails Rumble. It allows you to share and see what your friends are sharing. Basically, just install the extension and keep upvoting interesting posts as you always do, it will appear in the app automatically. You can also get suggestions.

It's something that I am going to use regularly. Well done

Is anyone else bothered by the lack of smoothing in the "How many times you have seen interesting..." font? looks like "Ubuntu", sans-serif. maybe I need to just get a higher dpi monitor...