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by conesus 4mo ago
For the Premium Archive tier, NewsBlur attempts to download a blog's entire backlog to backfill stories, whether it's exposed through paging or RFC 5005. Here's more info about how NewsBlur does it: https://blog.ne
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by conesus 6mo ago
It wasn't actually down from overuse, the node.js server hit an unhandled error and fell over. And because this is the first time I was seeing real usage, I didn't have a supervisor in place to restart it automatically. That'
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by conesus 7mo ago
I was a NNW user for years and it's why I eventually built my own news reader. NNW had a lot of great features and I wanted to mostly keep them. You might find that NewsBlur takes a similar path but with a different set of opinions.
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by conesus 7mo ago
Seriously. I've been updating NewsBlur with all the pet features people have wanted for years and I'm finding that it's even more enjoyable now with all those AI features built in. Daily briefing, ask AI, story clustering, al
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by conesus 7mo ago
VESA mounts are only a few bucks and give you even better height and tilt adjustment. You also get desk space back. I have a shorter desk (24" vs typical 30" depth) and I have two monitors and a laptop mounted on 3 VESAs and I can
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by conesus 7mo ago
HN caches the profile, sometimes it takes a few minutes for Hacker Smacker to get the latest data. It keeps checking until it works.
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by conesus 7mo ago
That was the toughest lift of all! Firefox and Chrome extensions were easy, just had to go through a quick review. Apple rejected the safari extension 4-5 times and wanted me to make changes to the metadata and even questioned the extension
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by conesus 7mo ago
Hacker Smacker doesn't mean you ignore your foes. Their comments are now labeled with the tiny red orb, giving you acknowledgement of how you've felt about them in the past. I've used this extension for the past 15 years and
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by conesus 7mo ago
I have not found that to be the case. I have over 150 commenters on my Hacker Smacker foe list and I have only found once or twice that somebody who goes into the red bucket deserves to go into the green bucket. Now the way I use the friend
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by conesus 7mo ago
I made some changes and the extension now recognizes if you can't hover and will allow you to tap to show the orbs before selecting one. It now works on mobile browsers with extensions.
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by conesus 7mo ago
Hah, at least I'm consistent.
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by conesus 7mo ago
You don't avoid anything, this simply helps highlight commenters in a long thread.
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by conesus 7mo ago
I mean the entire extension is about this, but I can quickly scan this thread (or others) and spot my favored commenters.
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by conesus 7mo ago
There's na open issue to address this exact need. I haven't figured out a good compromise yet, but an option to include symbols would be good. https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker/issues/3
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by conesus 7mo ago
The layout doesn't shift down. It only moves the meta information to the right of the user name over a little bit.
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by conesus 7mo ago
Ahh, I have you green orbed, and I recognize your username from NB. The system works!
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by conesus 7mo ago
Thanks to the HN moderators for re-posting this after I posted this a few days ago. I only notice now that it's on the front page. Happy to answer any questions. Let me tell you, I've really enjoyed having those writers that I lik
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by conesus 7mo ago
There's nothing about this that's horse blinders. It's literally a way to highlight riders that you both agree and disagree with. It actually makes it more likely that you're going to engage with the ones you disagree wi
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by conesus 7mo ago
That's absolutely correct. I started programming at eight in 1993, so I have a soft spot for those types of icons.
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by conesus 7mo ago
The reason I have this extension is because I don't want to hide those comments. I want to be able to read them when I quickly scroll a thread. Oftentimes, I'm reading so many Hacker News threads that I want to be able to pull out
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by conesus 7mo ago
Oh man, I had no idea this got reposted and I just discovered now, 8 hours later. Anyway, I kicked the server and its back up.
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by conesus 7mo ago
This new remote control handoff is neat but still requires you to remember to do the handoff. Oftentimes I’m waiting on an agent and then walk away. I built Crabigator[1] and it's a wrapper around `claude` and `codex`, so its ready for
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Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance(hackersmacker.org)
148 points by conesus 7mo ago|171 comments
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by conesus 7mo ago
I always preferred gmud, but zmud has all the bells and whistles. All I needed was ANSI color, aliases, triggers, and command history. How can I get access?
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by conesus 7mo ago
N.U.T.S. 3.3.3 4eva! There was a NUTS 4, but about a decade too late.
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by conesus 8mo ago
Say more, what’s the influence? My favorite branches were Diku/Merc and Circle based. SMAUG, Envy, ROM. Somewhere on a hard drive lives Abyss of Curak, my colorful and (in 1998) briefly popular MUD.
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by conesus 11mo ago
Everything is a tradeoff, including aging. You [can] become wiser but at a sizable expense.
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by conesus 11mo ago
Here's what I did to make voice (now WisprFlow, before Superwhisper) a habit: 1. Install Karabiner-Elements, a free macOS keyboard remapper[0] 2. Map F19 -> F5 (mic button) in Karabiner-Elements 3. Choose F19 as the voice ho
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by conesus 11mo ago
Now that's dangerous to do because the conversation history in Claude Code now also reverts the code to that point. So while this technique may have worked in the past, it no longer works.
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by conesus 1y ago
I built NewsBlur and it's always interesting to me to hear people talk about the UI as a retro feel, but when I look at the competitors, I feel they aren't dense enough with information. Minimalism has gutted our ability to proces

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