Showing HN
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SHOW HN2012
66points
40comments
#356of 1,677 in 2012
Top 22%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Design: 1 for, 9 againstIdea: 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 way to find interesting Show HN posts
From 2 comments
Great job. I can see myself checking this as Show HN are some of the most interesting posts I see here. Here is some feedback: - I second the opinions that the text is a bit…
tarekayna on HNMakes sense. I will use your site.
JimWestergren on HN
Objections
Text is low contrast and hard to read in Chrome
From 4 comments
Can't believe no one has complained about the font-weight/font-color being eye-straining...was HN down or something the past hour? :) Rather than just a list, it'd be great (as…
danso on HNThe site is still virtually unreadable for me. In case you're seeing something different, I'm at work on Windows 7 with Chrome. I wear glasses. I pretty much cannot read the…
cryptoz on HNIt's worse than just contrast. The text is so thin, light, and small, that parts of the glyphs can't even be rendered. There are literally not enough pixels to draw the open area…
dangrossman on HNpls change the contrast..its still very hard to read..I dont know how you have been reading it
cryptozeus on HN
Sorting by upvote score is missing
From 2 comments
Can't believe no one has complained about the font-weight/font-color being eye-straining...was HN down or something the past hour? :) Rather than just a list, it'd be great (as…
danso on HNCan you have a filter to rank by points? Would love to sort based on that to see the best "Show HN". :)
joesunga on HN
Only shows posts since the site started, not the backlog
From 2 comments
Nice concept. But I would like if you could display much more far back. And perhaps also how much upvotes each one got. Look at hneasy.com and maybe contact him.
JimWestergren on HNThanks for the feedback! It's actually creating its own database so as time goes on, it will show everything since it's been running. I didn't want to scrape through the backlog…
ddod on HN
Requests
Show upvote scores and rank by points
From 3 comments
Can't believe no one has complained about the font-weight/font-color being eye-straining...was HN down or something the past hour? :) Rather than just a list, it'd be great (as…
danso on HNCan you have a filter to rank by points? Would love to sort based on that to see the best "Show HN". :)
joesunga on HNDon't know how you're scraping this...but why not just keep track of the current upvote totals everytime you crawl the list (up to a certain cutoff point...I don't think upvotes…
danso on HN
Add paging or more posts
From 2 comments
Great job. I can see myself checking this as Show HN are some of the most interesting posts I see here. Here is some feedback: - I second the opinions that the text is a bit…
tarekayna on HNNice concept. But I would like if you could display much more far back. And perhaps also how much upvotes each one got. Look at hneasy.com and maybe contact him.
JimWestergren on HN
Add an RSS feed
From 1 comment
Suggestion: Enable an RSS feed.
tmchow on HN
Show comment counts
From 1 comment
Can you read this well? Is this just a fad that everyone is getting on, or is there a legitimate reason for having a gray background with a slightly darker gray text color? Short…
mercuryrising on HN
Questions
Why scrape instead of using the official HN search API
From 2 comments
Is there a reason you're using a scraper instead of http://www.hnsearch.com/api ?
napoleond on HNAre you scraping the site directly? Have you heard of the official api? http://www.hnsearch.com/api
shawndrost on HN
Alternatives named
hnshowcase.com
From 3 comments
I made http://www.hnshowcase.com that shows thumbnail/comment count/vote count of all "Show HN" posts. You can sort by comment and vote count but right now it doesn't let you…
ssong on HNI frequent this one http://www.hnshowcase.com/
zalew on HNalso check out hnshowcase.com (not mine) knocked over by all the meta in hnshowcase showing showinghn showing Show HNs while showing other Show HNs
flexxaeon on HN
hnapp.com Show HN filter
From 1 comment
Check out Show HN filter on hnapp.com: http://hnapp.com/filter/9205b686fc8b9b396a0d40e43663116f
rpsubhub on HN
ShowHNDaily
From 1 comment
I created ShowHNDaily.com to email Show HN postings. Feel free to use our RSS feed if you'd like @ http://www.showhndaily.com/rss.xml
showhndaily on HN
copythisproject.appspot.com
From 2 comments
copythisproject.appspot.com
oxffff on HNdid this a month ago. my site is still in alpha copythisproject.appspot.com
oxffff on HN