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Dear hackers, I pushed my "Hacker Top" program to github.

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A few days ago I started pushing all the projects that I had done since 2007 to Git Hub and found this awesome program! I had already forgotten that I had written it! Try it out and if you like it, please contribute! :)

Ps. I currently have pushed 12 projects and have 19 projects left. I am pushing 1-2 works per day, because none of them have a good readme, and I have to write it. If you are interested in my works, you can follow my github profile.

It would be nice if HN got a real API. I like to read HN from my phone, but the table-based layout just doesn't work. Being able to write a "rich" interface would be much nicer.

(Plus, it would be nice to get notifications about comment replies, etc.)

Could you fix file modes, please? readme.txt file almost certainly doesn't need to be executable for anyone. (Just a minor issue.)

Oh? I didn't know it was getting excluded!

Update: oops, I misread "executable" for "excluded". You can ignore the rest of this thread.

I guess you're not a Linux user? See under "Permissions" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions#Traditi... .

Oh sorry. "executable" not "excluded". I misread.

Sure, gonna fix them right now.

Update: done.

He said "executable". Is the executable flag set on readme.txt?

Oh, sorry. I misread. Yes, it's set. Going to remove it. (But I don't find it a big deal that it's set personally.)

Update: done.

It doesn't matter much, but it's a nice and very obvious way of saying "you should run this". You clone the repository, type ls, see one file green, and you can instantly run it, without reading the doc, or guessing.

You're right!

Great job! Guess I've got to find a way to hide my productivity decline now...

This is awesome! Currently, though, it allows you to browse a listing of headlines, but that's a great place the start.

One feature that would make this tremendously more usful is just adding integration to the Python 'webbrowser' module to open the currently selected entry in the user's default browser. That might even be the only feature this needs :)

I'll be watching this!

Hi, thanks for the idea. I added this idea to TODO. :)

It's neat, but it only displays the top stories and there's no way to really read the stories? I think it's nifty, but not necessarily useful.

Try cycling the display modes with 'm'. There is a mode that displays the URLs. I usually just copy/paste it. I can't open them in a browser because I run this program on another computer via a ssh session, therefore I have not yet implemented this feature.

Sometimes the URLs are too long, though. Then I have to navigate to hacker news. The same if I want to comment.

If you can use VNC, I built this a few years ago: http://akkartik.name/vnc.html

On OS X at least, you could shell out to the open command and pass in the url.

I am going to try to add it right now. :)

This is not going that fast. I have postponed it for a while.

Won't we all hitting HN's home every couple seconds cause a server meltdown?

Nope. The front page is 90-seconds cached for the not-logged-in people. And by default the program queries the site once every 3 minutes.

Sounds crazy. Very hacker-like.

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