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hacker news client

SHOW HN2018

45points
24comments
#830of 2,155 in 2018
Top 39%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

2 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.

Execution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful way to find projects, similar to HN's from?site= search.

    From 2 comments
    • Cool! Wasn't knocking your project, just trying to understand. A language filter would be nice :)
      michaelmior on HN
    • This is nice, but it would be better (and more useful than a plain HN search) if it included project data through the Github API, like stars, license, languages, etc.
      krapp on HN

Objections

  • Looks too similar to the official Hacker News page.

    From 1 comment
    • It looks too similar to the official page. I'm not sure if in this cases they send a friendly email or a nastygram, but I think you should make some small changes in the look and…
      gus_massa on HN
  • Bottom links do not work when tracking is blocked.

    From 1 comment
    • Fyi, your links at the bottom don't work. ``` <a href="https://github.com/montanaflynn/codehn" onclick="trackOutboundLink(this); return false;">(source code)</a> ``` Either the…
      joeframbach on HN

Requests

  • Add a filter by programming language.

    From 2 comments
    • Hey HN! I've had this domain forever so finally decided to make a website for it. I use the HN API to get the stories and then filter out any none code stories. Next up I will…
      anonfunction on HN
    • That is pretty much what I hoped to create. I just didn't know about that, I wish I had because I've wanted this functionality for years. One difference is that ?site=github.com…
      anonfunction on HN
  • Add GitHub metadata such as stars and license.

    From 1 comment
    • This is nice, but it would be better (and more useful than a plain HN search) if it included project data through the Github API, like stars, license, languages, etc.
      krapp on HN

Questions

  • Does it show GitLab links as well as GitHub?

    From 1 comment
    • It looks too similar to the official page. I'm not sure if in this cases they send a friendly email or a nastygram, but I think you should make some small changes in the look and…
      gus_massa on HN

Alternatives named

  • news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com

    From 1 comment
    • Perhaps this is just because of the current stories, but what's the difference between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com ?
      michaelmior on HN
  • node-hnapi

    From 1 comment
    • You might wanna take a look at https://github.com/cheeaun/node-hnapi for an alternative API
      captn3m0 on HN

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