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by pk 5y ago
Any plans to support HTTP authentication? This is wonderful! It could save us from having to hire an administrative assistant to do manual scraping.
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by pk 14y ago
What do you think about http://news.ycommentator.com ? It does some HN-enhancement (shows top comments on the front page), but using a server to do all the processing instead of a client script. I built it a few months ago. If there was a
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by pk 14y ago
An icon to access the sort menu would make the interface a little easier to use. Context meus are nice, but they should be a shortcut to an action rather than the only way to trigger it. I also noticed that the search box only searches docu
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by pk 14y ago
This is a great example of a Minimum Viable Product. It has just enough features to be useful (multiple accounts, search, editing) and no more. From the website, they have plans to iterate quickly, with the help of what I'm sure will be a l
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by pk 14y ago
That's a great idea. My preference is to have the comments always expanded so I can skim them quickly, but an expand / collapse feature would increase the app's appeal to people who like the regular HN front page and want quicker access to
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by pk 14y ago
The comments on HN are often at least as good (if not better!) than the links. I built this app to have a way to quickly read through all the top comments on front page stories. I hope some of you find it useful too.
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Show HN: Ycommentator - HN front page with Slashdot-like inline comments(news.ycommentator.com)
5 points by pk 14y ago|3 comments
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Execute Selected Lines of (Optionally) Marked Up Python Code in a Vim Buffer(jeetworks.org)
1 points by pk 14y ago|0 comments
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Re: The TED Talks: Silicon Valley Corporatism?(pktck.posterous.com)
1 points by pk 15y ago|0 comments
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An easy way to curb smart-phone thieves(sfgate.com)
10 points by pk 15y ago|4 comments
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BART Disables Cell Service To Disrupt Protests(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by pk 15y ago|0 comments
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Emacs violates GPL since 2009(lists.gnu.org)
134 points by pk 15y ago|39 comments
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Real Artists Ship: How the original Mac team worked through Christmas in 1983(folklore.org)
1 points by pk 16y ago|0 comments
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125 million iOS devices morph into credit card terminals(zdnet.com)
1 points by pk 16y ago|0 comments
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German "heatball" wheeze outwits EU light bulb ban(news.yahoo.com)
3 points by pk 16y ago|0 comments
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Why Zuckerberg ignores the press (from yesterday's Facebook / YC event)(pktck.posterous.com)
20 points by pk 16y ago|7 comments
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Facebook's Bootcamp: how they scale their engineering team.(facebook.com)
14 points by pk 16y ago|1 comments
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Robert Morris was convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in 1990(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by pk 16y ago|8 comments
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by pk 16y ago
A question for PG: How many applicants did you get?
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by pk 16y ago
The decision on whether to release your work under a free license depends a lot on the purpose you write it for. If you're writing, say, a blog to express your thoughts or as a self-promotion tool (e.g. to make your name recognizable to peo
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by pk 16y ago
Lim Cheng Soon, the creator of the Hacker Monthly, deserves a good deal of credit for securing the rights to reprint all of the content in this magazine. I'm sure that was the most time-consuming part of putting this together. In the Curato
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by pk 18y ago
I like your summary of the talk. One subtly to his position that made the talk stand out for me was that he wasn't completely opposed to the top-down model for determining the weight of subjects in schools based on industry demands. Rather,
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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?(ted.com)
2 points by pk 18y ago|2 comments
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by pk 18y ago
I've been using websnapr.com for the web app I'm working on. It seems to be the best web-based solution around, but it does have some drawbacks, like thumbnails for new sites take some time after they've been requested before they're availa
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CBS To Acquire CNET For $1.8 Billion(techcrunch.com)
8 points by pk 18y ago|0 comments
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Remote Port Forwarding over SSH (good trick to have up your sleave)(dailyvim.blogspot.com)
1 points by pk 18y ago|0 comments
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by pk 18y ago
There are a few good brief articles up on Guy Kawasaki's VC firm's site (Garage Technology Ventures). The most memorable points from the articles were: 1. The purpose of a business plan / pitch is to sell your company to an investor, not
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by pk 18y ago
It would definitely be on Sunday - I'm going to a friend's graduation at Worcester Polytechnic Institute that Saturday.
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by pk 18y ago
Both :-) -- graphic design for non-graphic designers who know HTML and CSS, but aren't quite sure what to do with it. Here's a blurb I wrote up for the Sessions wiki page ( http://2008.barcampboston.org/index.php?title=Sessions ): Do you h
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by pk 18y ago
I went to last year's Boston BarCamp and it was a great event overall. Some workshops were a little "eh", but others were really good. I'm thinking about doing a session on "Graphic Design for Coders" - anybody here have any thoughts on whe

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