RewindHN
Consumer and social
hacker news history viewer
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
15 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.41.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 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
Very fast and responsive
From 2 comments
Your app is astoundingly fast. What's your secret?
fudged71 on HNBlown away on how fast this website is. I kept the left arrow key pressed and it didn't shutter once.
nikunjk on HN
Good UX and keyboard controls
From 3 comments
I really like the UX. I implemented something like this some years ago for HN and other sites, but not as granular, at http://rrrewind.com
earlyriser on HNvery well done. ux is great.
celalo on HNThis is awesome, and really well done. The keyboard bindings are very handy. Would be great if it had older snapshots.
vasco on HN
Objections
Shows nothing without JavaScript
From 1 comment
Doesn't show ANYTHING without javascript....
Nux on HN
Hard to follow changes between snapshots
From 1 comment
It's difficult to follow changes. Step up and down the ladder of abstraction. http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
username3 on HN
Arrow keys do not work in some browsers
From 1 comment
Great idea! The left and right arrow key functionality doesn't appear to be working for me though (FF 16, Fedora 17).
samwilliams on HN
Requests
Older snapshots beyond one month
From 2 comments
This looks amazing! Good job! If I may ask(yes I have taken a look at your code but unfortunately my python is not too good), whats the "secret" to grabbing HN's historic data?…
clockwork_189 on HNThis is awesome, and really well done. The keyboard bindings are very handy. Would be great if it had older snapshots.
vasco on HN
Slider control
From 1 comment
That's awesome, but I don't like the UI. A slider would be nice!
chris_p on HN
Highlight a story to track its movement
From 1 comment
Loved this. I would love the feature where I could "highlight" (add a glow for effect) any particular story and watch it move up and down as I play with the arrows. Right now…
dotmanish on HN
Animate post movement
From 1 comment
Awesome. How about animating it so you can see the posts actually moving up and down?
highace on HN
Questions
How the historic data is scraped
From 1 comment
This looks amazing! Good job! If I may ask(yes I have taken a look at your code but unfortunately my python is not too good), whats the "secret" to grabbing HN's historic data?…
clockwork_189 on HN
Why stories get flagged off the front page
From 1 comment
Interesting. Why do some stories get flagged off the front page?
sync on HN
Alternatives named
HackerSlide
From 1 comment
Very nice. I actually thought of implementing this a few months ago but a quick Google search brought up http://hackerslide.com/ (also open source), which works fine as well.
MehdiEG on HN
hnrankings.info
From 1 comment
Nice. I'm also a fan of http://hnrankings.info/ which is useful to see when a story has been flagged and suddenly drops off the front page.
sxp on HN
HnEasy
From 1 comment
Interesting one. I would love to see a list of all the Hacker News "meta tools". I posted my own last week: http://www.HnEasy.com sorts hn all posts and comments by upvotes from…
tucson on HN
RedditRewind
From 1 comment
Nice. I made something like this for reddit called redditrewind: http://www.redditrewind.com
Goopplesoft on HN