No need to refresh your browser anymore to see new stories and comments.
Also, I used a responsive design to be able to read the stories on my mobile phone.
For now, I only show the top stories, up to 100 of them ( that's how many the API gives you anyway ).
If people find it useful, I might add other things. Hope OAuth becomes available so I can add up-voting and comment adding.
I also have comment counts and whatever data is used to dim downvoted comments on my API wishlist ( my own implementation is http://insin.github.io/react-hn ).
An endpoint for just ask/show/jobs items would also be nice.
I have two stores, one for the news stories, and one for the comments. And then a smaller one for the notifications. I don't use any state in the components. Everything propagates from the top level and the stores.
The counter component doesn't have a state, but when it sees an update, it just adds/removes a class and that's how you get the animation.
(am I the only on who fears that Material Design (when overused) can become the new Flash?)
I have no problem to disable them ( optionally maybe? ) for whoever thinks they are annoying.