Hacker News Comments
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SHOW HN2012
Hacker News Comments
Blogs this big are unlikely to implement a third-party (and unsupported) discussion feed.
hncomments.nathancahill.comHow HN took it
9 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 5 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 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
Useful idea for blogs, especially those with no comment audience
From 3 comments
I'd definitely use this on my blog (http://sachagreif.com) if it was officially supported (or at least tolerated) by HN somehow. And the fact that people can only comment if they…
sgdesign on HNWow, I really like this, great work! I've previously thought that comment threads on blogs tend to die down fairly quickly, whereas discussions on HN tend to last a bit longer,…
mootothemax on HNVery, very interesting! So you already calculated that the cost of this will be insignificant for you even with millions of pageviews? Blogs have a long tail of visits... ;)
danmaz74 on HN
Keeps comments on HN instead of splitting discussion
From 2 comments
Wow, I really like this, great work! I've previously thought that comment threads on blogs tend to die down fairly quickly, whereas discussions on HN tend to last a bit longer,…
mootothemax on HNNot a downside. I'm not allowing posting comments or upvotes through this system to maintain the integrity of the discussion on HN.
nathancahill on HN
Objections
Scraping HN breaks robots.txt limits and loads its servers
From 2 comments
Scraping comments on HN hits the robots.txt wall rather quickly. At a maximum 2 scrapes per minute, your cache will be 60 minutes old when you're watching 120 (single-page)…
quesera on HNrobots.txt doesn't enforce itself so there is no IP limitation; this is still a violation and no better than simply lowering the delay on a single scraper.
typpo on HN
Could pull readers and submissions away from HN itself
From 2 comments
Do you think people are going to wait for someone to submit each post to HN? I think this will encourage writers to submit every single story they write to HN, just to get a…
sp332 on HNI hope this doesn't further impact the quality of discussion on hacker news. It seems that every day I notice more and more people posting completely non-contributing crap in the…
bherms on HN
Requests
Open source the code
From 2 comments
Why isn't this open source?
irrationalfab on HNyes i would. to implement the whole thing, instead of only this little jquery snippet shouldn't take much longer. but then i'm not dependent on someone elses server being up/fast.
muellerwolfram on HN
Client-side version using an official HN API
From 1 comment
This would make more sense if it was entirely client-side code towards an official JSONP endpoint, such as the official hacker news API.
sktrdie on HN
Questions
How does scraping and caching work?
From 1 comment
Great contribution Nathan, looking forward to using this to embed comments after my next blog post. Can you let me know how the comment system works? Are you scraping HN?
nickwoodhams on HN
Why not use existing third-party HN APIs?
From 1 comment
Seems respectable. Out of curiosity, why did none of the existing 3rd party API's suit your purpose?
nickwoodhams on HN
Alternatives named
Official Hacker News API
From 1 comment
This would make more sense if it was entirely client-side code towards an official JSONP endpoint, such as the official hacker news API.
sktrdie on HN
ihackernews API and HNSearch API
From 1 comment
I would see that eventuating if this allowed commenting via the embedding blog, thankfully it doesn't. I don't have the same issue with this that others do, but I remember…
ooobo on HN
hnlike.com upvote button
From 1 comment
I created hnlike.com about a year ago that helps you to setup an upvote button for your blog. I have disabled the upvote feature as the community seemed worried. See the HN…
sbashyal on HN