Hackernews-Button
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hacker news browser extension
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How HN took it
4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 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
Privacy-preserving design using Bloom filters
From 3 comments
I just installed it. I don't have much to add, but wanted to say: wow, this is awesome. I appreciated the How It Works section. I made a tiny open-source web app in a similar…
jacobobryant on HNgreat bloom filter use case, thanks a lot for building and sharing this!
tosh on HNThanks for clearing that up, yes I'm not that familiar with Bloom filters, seems like an interesting and useful concept. It could probably (pun intended) be applied to many…
gitgud on HN
Readable code and documentation
From 2 comments
I just installed it. I don't have much to add, but wanted to say: wow, this is awesome. I appreciated the How It Works section. I made a tiny open-source web app in a similar…
jacobobryant on HNThanks for clearing that up, yes I'm not that familiar with Bloom filters, seems like an interesting and useful concept. It could probably (pun intended) be applied to many…
gitgud on HN
Objections
Local list may miss obscure sites with millions of posts
From 1 comment
Nice, so it periodically retrieves a list of HN posts and queries that list locally, so you're not telling algolia any specific site details. There are millions of posts on HN,…
gitgud on HN
False positive rate tradeoff
From 1 comment
Isn't this basically going to depend on the acceptable false positive rate?
ska on HN
Requests
Add a submit-page option for unlisted pages
From 1 comment
Just add a feature to submit a page when it isn't listed. I wouldn't be using it, but it make sense to have that too.
stunt on HN
Questions
How many submissions the filter covers
From 1 comment
Nice, so it periodically retrieves a list of HN posts and queries that list locally, so you're not telling algolia any specific site details. There are millions of posts on HN,…
gitgud on HN
BigQuery cost of daily queries
From 1 comment
Thanks for clearing that up, yes I'm not that familiar with Bloom filters, seems like an interesting and useful concept. It could probably (pun intended) be applied to many…
gitgud on HN
Comparison with Merkle trees
From 1 comment
Have you compared this with using Merkle Trees? Would be curious how big the size of a merkle branch is in comparison to the bloom filter set.
sktrdie on HN
Alternatives named
newsit extension that queries sources on every page load
From 1 comment
Nice, so it periodically retrieves a list of HN posts and queries that list locally, so you're not telling algolia any specific site details. There are millions of posts on HN,…
gitgud on HN
Naive Algolia querying web app
From 1 comment
I just installed it. I don't have much to add, but wanted to say: wow, this is awesome. I appreciated the How It Works section. I made a tiny open-source web app in a similar…
jacobobryant on HN