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Ask HN: How do you read HN without “mark as read” extension?

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I've been using the Chrome extension to mark all entries on the news page "as read". This means no energy is wasted looking at the entire list of entries trying to find new ones.

This addon has stopped working a few days ago and I can't find a replacement.

How do you guys read Hackernews? Am I missing something? Do you "manually" scan the list for new entries every time you visit?

Thanks for your time.

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If I'm on the same machine - the links are gray so I just skip them.

Of course, coming home after work means I might just open same links I have opened at work.

Though, I'm not overcomplicating it all.

So you open every single link? I read the headlines, open the ones I want to read and then pressing the "mark all as read" was a total blessing because next time I open the page I only look at the "non grey" links.

I guess I could just open all the links but it doesn't seem ideal.

I was having the same problem, so I just fixed it, and sent a pull request to the original author. In the meantime, if you don't want to wait for the author, you can just use the temporary extension I published:

https://github.com/guiambros/HNMarkAllRead

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-mark-a...

I didn't even notice this. It works great and makes me a very happy camper :)

Do we know why the addon stopped working? It doesn't seem to be linked to a browser update.

On Firefox, I can middle-click on articles I don't want to read and delete all the tabs in a row. They appear in gray next time I visit HN. It works but it is cumbersome...

It may be possible to write a script to save the current page source code, extract all the links it contains, send a "GET" to them and hope they will appear in grey in HN, as if we actually clicked on them. I would like to be able to do it and share it.

(edit) just saw iisbum dit it ;)

I just read it once a day — because I have shit to do. So revisiting old stories is rarely a problem.

I wrote my own app for doing this, but not just for hacker news, also for designers news, product hunt and few other websites that provide an API.

I did http://www.appblit.com/hn but I usually read HN on my iphone using iHackerNews.com

I read it primarily on my iPhone and the app has this built in.

Which app?

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