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Show HN: Hackerhub.org
- rhizome31 15y agoInteresting idea. I might find some use for this. By the way there seem to be a problem with the link to the bitbucket repo.
- saibotd 15y agoLink is fixed now
- cmelbye 15y agoWow, this is really cool. Nice work!
- cobrabyte 15y agoVery cool. Great work!
- JonnieCache 15y agoI hope you know what you are getting into running a service like this - have a look at some of http://pastebin.com/archive http://pastebin.com/archive for inspiration.
- Permit 15y agoWow, I'd never looked at this before but there's some interesting stuff popping up in there. I think people believe Pastebin is more private than it actually is because in the 30 seconds I scanned through, I saw a Data Dump on a small E-commerce website and some other interesting stuff...
- pearkes 15y agoI wish I could tell this guy that he needed to install libevent :( http://pastebin.com/nUAqFbXd http://pastebin.com/nUAqFbXd
- saibotd 15y agoWell, it is a bit different to pastebin as with hackerhub you need to host the content by yourself. That said I am sure there are plenty of ways to abuse the service ;)
- gbaygon 15y agoI'm sure that when the service kicks off he will figure out the possible solutions to abuse
- gbaygon 15y agoI like the idea, and the minimalist approach. Since there is no registration, how do you deal with duplicate ids? PS: Please commit to bitbucket!
- saibotd 15y agoI completely forgot the repo! I'll push any minute now. If the id in your profile is taken you'll get an error message.
- driverdan 15y agoPretty interesting idea. Took me <2 min to get a page up for myself: http://driverdan.hackerhub.org/blog http://driverdan.hackerhub.org/blog Are IDs first come, first serve?
- saibotd 15y ago> Are IDs first come, first serve? exactly
- hardik988 15y agoThis is really cool. Really quick to get started. It would be awesome to have an option for custom DNS ! This looks like a cool way to have a bootstrapped front-end for a few things I have in mind.
- saibotd 15y agoLike posterous does it? Yeah, that'll be cool - I'll look into it. Next version will also include an option for overriding the CSS.
- johanbrook 15y agoSounds great! While checking the project out, I was thinking that it would be awesome if it was possible for me to do some design adjustments myself.
- toyg 15y agoCool concept and nifty execution. It is still only pseudo-anonymous, because you need a personal URL for the repo-file. Open-source it, add some basic federation, and you have what Diaspora should have been from the start.
- saibotd 15y agoIt is open source (be aware that the [sourcecode](https://bitbucket.org/saibotd/hackerhub/src https://bitbucket.org/saibotd/hackerhub/src) is not pretty) > add some basic federation How? Any ideas?
- pork 15y agoIn a sense, you already have, by requiring the content to be hosted elsewhere and releasing the pulling code. There is beauty in simple tools like this one. Kudos.
- gbaygon 15y agoYes. And i must say that the code is very small and well written.
- toyg 15y agomaybe just adding a basic feed aggregator, so that you can easily see your friends' updates, pulling in their disqus comment threads (I have no idea whether this is feasible, i've never implemented disqus).
- sixbit 15y agoLove it!
- terhechte 15y agoI really like the idea. May use it for a couple of upcoming things I wanted to do.
- mhd 15y agoIs there a way to force a cache update or does this limit you to (at most) one daily new item?
- Autre 15y agoAre arbitrary rss feeds recognized? [edit:] Seems like rss, not atom feeds, are recognized.
- rcfox 15y agoI don't think I understand. You post content elsewhere, and then this mirrors it?
- rhizome31 15y agoI think the point is that you write your content in Markdown, the structure of your site in JSON, and this generates and serve HTML with a decent CSS. Interesting for programmers who want to quickly publish content without bothering with presentation. It's like Jekyll or Nanoc for busy (or lazy) people.
- saibotd 15y agoThis man is correct
- hrabago 15y agoIt would help if the site mentioned this. It reminds me of an old analysis of the Mozilla website where, upon launching, it showed a full screenview that preached the gospel of Open Source Software to the visitor instead of providing the user with a link to the Firefox browser. You have to provide some context to visitors, like maybe those who are not coming from HN.
- shazow 15y agoStumbled on an error when going to /r of my url: Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: Filename cannot be empty in /var/www/hackerhub/index.php on line 129
- shareme 15y agoThis is interesting.. what prompted such a project?
- saibotd 15y agoI've had something like this for years as my personal cms. Lately I've seen a lot of valuable content hosted on closed platforms like g+ or even facebook and it makes me kinda sad - the people are willingly gifting their content away. If these companies decide you are no longer valuable to them (real name debate, anyone?) you may loose all of your stuff. If hackerhub goes offline tomorrow, every user will still have their content.
- hasenj 15y agoInteresting, I've had a similar idea, but different: you download a command line tool and publish your local .md (markdown) files with it under some name, like: $ p register <username> $ vim content.md $ p publish <content>.md # gets published under <username>.domain.com/<content> I didn't know if people would find this useful, but judging from reactions to this, it looks like there might be a market for it
- jstepien 15y agoThe font you've chosen is missing some characters. http://j.hackerhub.org/unicode http://j.hackerhub.org/unicode
- program 15y agoWhat browser are you using? I can see all the characters. They have specified 'sans-serif' (which most of the times means Helvetica).
- jstepien 15y agoI'm on Chrome 13 and yes, I see all characters too, but Ż, ž, č, ą and ę are displayed in a fall-back sans-serif font. All others using Istok Web, as defined in the CSS. It doesn't look good.
- program 15y agoIt seems that Chrome is indulgent with the font-family declaration. There is an error in the CSS. font-family: 'Istok Web' sans-serif; should be: font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif; Firefox 7 ignore the above declaration showing the page in the default font. I have forced 'Istok Web' with firebug and yes it looks ugly.
- saibotd 15y agoThat is really a dumb problem - I am sorry for this. I'll try out some other fonts by tomorrow
- adrianwaj 15y agoperhaps one could categorize pages, eg, I mentioned something here about creating a UIpalette http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060902 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060902 - could you pivot around that? Make the site a destination to find new content.
- saibotd 15y agoGreat idea! Any ideas of how such a categorization could look like?
- adrianwaj 15y agojust create them on-the-fly as submitted. The problem will be spam, I would have an API key that's created upon captcha signup that's attached to a submission, and opens up new capabilities. Maybe too complicated. Ideally I could create a plugin, that would load a new random page from category UI after every press, then at the top of the browser would display some metadata attached to a page, like a "further info" link. Perhaps you could create a category tree that users populate, and then allow random tags to associate -- like YT videos - choose a category but then attach madeup tags - that would be best.
- benwerd 15y agoNeat, neat, neat. Will there be a directory?
- chanux 15y agoThis is great. Can't wait till I get some free time to hack on.
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- X-Istence 15y agoWhen you got to a URL that doesn't exist instead of throwing a 404 error it just throws an PHP error!
- saibotd 15y agoOops, thanks! Should be fixed now
- eliot_sykes 15y agoThink I get it but would like to see a shorter intro making it obvious what it does. Maybe a couple of links to demo sites.
- mvts 15y agoMy profile now shows a blank page... although my json file seems to be valid. Help? http://mats.hackerhub.org/ http://mats.hackerhub.org/ Great work by the way :)