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Save Even More Time On Hacker News

danmaz74.me

107 pointslucioscarpa46 comments

Great plugin.

I primarily use http://hckrnews.com to browse HN submissions ( <-- this site is great. If you don't use it, you're missing a lot IMO ) and its extensions for Safari: http://hckrnews.com/about.html

Both have great ideas, and I think pg should adopt one of them (though I know he won't). I hate it when I use my iPad for browsing HN. Comments are small, up/down-vote arrows are minuscule, and you can't use these highly-useful plugins. And I've tried about a dozen different clients so far. None of them offer anything like http://hckrnews.com (a chronological timeline of submissions), so I keep coming back to Safari... :(

I've found http://ihackernews.com to be useful for mobile reading

For iOS, http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ is great. Adapts the layout to your device.

Oh my, this is so good. Domain registered in 2010, how long has hckr news been out?

I always wonder why Hacker News is not developed as an open source project. This seems like a natural approach for such community, especially taking into account that pg has no time/interest to drive it himself.

It is open source: http://arclanguage.org/install

Though, I doubt pg accepts "pull requests" or anything. He likes the site the way it is, apparently (I don't like HN to have a million share buttons either, but I do want a few things added that would make life for thousands of HN visitors much easier).

I really doubt pg likes the fact that HN is so painful to use on mobile, and this is just one example. I understand that he doesn't have time to work on the site himself, but he should at least consider appointing some "community committee" consisting of trusted users who are willing to help. Sometimes letting go is best.

Nice extension. I'd be curious to see the funnel associated with your "shameless plug" at the end of your post:

How many people click through to your consulting page?

How many additional inquiries do you get over the coming 1-2 weeks?

You just gave me a great idea for a future post ;)

I'd also recommend handling the onclick event of your outbound links and sending a custom event up to Google Analytics. That way you can get a rough approximation of how many people are clicking through to other sites.

I'd love to have this for Firefox.

Or, even better, built into the site!

Author here: I published the source code, I guess that it would take little enough to adapt it... ;)

I noticed - thanks for that! Hopefully someone who knows Firefox better than I do will pick it up and run with it.

Save Time and Hacker News don't mix. :)

I think my Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) project can help with that for a lot of people (as well as this great extension), but yeah, anytime HN is involved there is a good chance time is going to go out the window. :)

I expected it to be a plugin that replaces all the article titles to either "Vaporware Press Release" or "Trend Article Ending With Question Mark." :P

Nice plugin, but the title makes me wonder. Aren't "visiting HN" and "saving time" in contradiction?

Thanks for a great extension (that I have been using!) and I noticed the new changes going live.

Does this fix the bug (which I assume was caused by this) where if a story was marked as read then it sometimes loaded the comments page without the main story link?

Also, the "Follow Comments" functionality wasn't obvious to me until I read this blog post - perhaps a rewording?

Thanks for a great extension!

Thanks for liking :)

I've never been able to reproduce that bug; the code has changed enough with this new version and I never noticed that happening again. If you notice that again, please let me know.

For the rewording of "follow comments", if you have any suggestions you're welcome.

I find the best way to save time on Hacker News is to block it while I'm meant to be working: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659976

The best way to save more time on Hacker News is stop reading it.

Easier said than done ;-)

Cool! I especially like the "collapse comment threads", that's the one thing i really miss on this site.

I second this. It seems to make it easier for me to follow conversations if I can collapse threads I've already read as well as threads that don't look like they interest me.

In case there is any confusion, Autobahn for Hacker News launched on July 4th with hundreds of unique daily users using the slogan "Save Time on Hacker News", so I ask this author to come up with another tagline to avoid confusion.

With Autobahn, you truly save time: you can ban stories by domain name, see full story domain names, and view user profiles in an overlay with a twitter button and picture, so you don't have to click the back button; also, profile links and e-mails are clickable as well, so you don't have to copy-paste!

If you only want some of these features, simply uncheck the ones you need using the options panel: http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/img/autobahn-options-google-...

Official site: http://wwww.autobahnapp.com

Original Hacker News discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4197062

This project was clearly around before Autobahn (May 27 blog post vs June 8 start date) and according to the Chrome Web Store it has more users (785 vs 409).

http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-...

In case there is any confusion, as somebody else already noticed, Mark All Read was published already in may, and the announcement was titled "save time on hacker news":

http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-...

If you want to use that slogan I'm not going to sue you, but please, before sending this kind of "cease and desist", at least check your facts.

I didn't realize you used the exact same slogan previously!

While there are many other Chrome extensions on Hacker News, I spent three weeks perfecting the three main features (banning domains, user profile overlay, subdomains) as well as allowing the users to disable any of them.

As anyone on Hacker News who's ever released a product can relate, I was confused that 1) someone used mine for many months, and then uninstalled it without realizing they could disable a feature, and 2) the same person who used mine for many months didn't know the difference between my plugin and yours, and then 3) they posted on my favorite tech site about it. :)

Looks like they remembered the slogan from my web site, "Save Time on Hacker News", but not the web site url, or the screenshot showing that you can go the standard Chrome Options to disable a feature. Given that I only submitted Autobahn once to the Chrome Store and Hacker News and haven't had a bug to force releasing a new update since launch, I guess I have to start writing blog posts, marketing, and work up the branding a bit when I release version 2. :)

Both of us obviously developed and use our own plugin for our own needs, and I hope we continue to share our improvements to the site with the Hacker News crowd! :)

Finally, I also want to thank Alex for making me consider adding a specific icon to the username for loading the user profile normally, and will follow-up with him about why he didn't like the feature after using it for many months.

Ok, no big deal :) Case closed, and good luck with your extension!

Reddit Enhancement Suite for HN.

I actually just uninstalled this the other day. It annoyed me that clicking on someone's username wouldn't take me to their profile page, and not only that but there was no longer any way to get there.

I've been using this extension for awhile, and I can't duplicate your results - clicking on your username with the extension installed is taking me right to your profile page. What happens when you do it?

This doesn't happen to me and it just shouldn't happen (I don't change the username in any way). Did you see this consistently? It's very odd.

Ahh I think I was actually thinking of the HN chrome extension Autobahn, which also has the tagline "save time on Hacker News."

(author here) First, thanks for trying Autobahn! I wanted to mention that Autobahn has always allowed you to enable/disable any of the three features in the Options panel. I'm also curious about what you didn't like about the Profile Overlay? It shows the user profile in an overlay so you don't have to click the back button, as well as the user's twitter handle, picture, and profile image. On top of that, it makes links and emails clickable. Thanks!

Autobahn for Hacker News has always allowed you to disable or enable any feature separately, including the User Profile overlay, as the launch video, official page, and this screen shot shows since July 4th.

http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/img/autobahn-options-google-...

Autobahn also has hundreds of daily unique users and launched on July 4th with the headline "Save Time on Hacker News." If you want to ban stories and see full subdomain names, get it today! http://vlad.github.com/autobahn/

> It annoyed me that clicking on someone's username wouldn't take me to their profile page

Thanks for using my Autobahn for Hacker News plugin for the past few months! I thought I should let you know that you can disable the Profile Overlay in the options panel. I love it because I can see the user's twitter name, image, and follow button, as well as clickable links and e-mail addresses, all without having to click the 'Back' button. What don't you like about that feature?

http://hn.arcticmill.com/ hackernews reader works for me.

The best way to save time on Hacker News is to add it to /etc/hosts and route it to 127.0.0.1

Then, just browse it on your phone.

And HN goes all Onion on us... I can only hope this is some brilliant troll's idea of incisive satire.

Thanks! Can you make it work with news.ycombinator.org too?

Is there any difference between the two websites? I wasn't even aware that there was to .org...

They are exactly the same but there's a few people using the org instead.

You should add a link to the extension to the post.

There was a link originally but I deleted it by accident - not it's back, thank you for the warning!

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