November 2007
2 posts
My favorite commenters on Hacker News
After two weeks of bliss with my new tool for reading Hacker News, I’ve come up with a shortlist of my favorite commenters there. The difference in quality between the filtered and unfiltered views is huge—just about every interesting thread on hacker news has somebody interesting commenting on it, it seems. That correspondence should hold even if your notion of interesting is...
Revisiting how I read YC News
Here’s a writeup on a radically different approach to the notification and highlighting problems. No extension, no greasemonkey script, no bookmarklet, nothing to install at all, just a different static page.
We still rely on specialized parsing for a single website, though.
Update: Currently atop the Hacker News front-page.
October 2007
1 post
Supporting YC News
Yet another episode of tracking changes to websites. If you frequent YC News, this greasemonkey script will highlight stories on the front page with fresh comments since you last visited them. On pages with comments it will highlight fresh ones. Finally, it provides easy access to the list of monitored stories; you can stop monitoring a story when you want to.
Inspiration This script identifies...
June 2007
2 posts
Narrowing our focus..
We started out with two use cases: notification when pages update, and highlighting updates on a page. After using hystry for a week, however, we found the inbox to be less useful than expected. There were just too many pages we didn’t care about. Ignoring each of them was too much of a hassle.
The new version tightens our focus in two ways. First, it focusses on reddit, a single set of...
Welcome to hystry
Have you ever returned to a slashdot/digg/reddit thread and wished you could easily tell apart the new comments since you last checked it? Or written a comment only to forget to check if others replied to you? hystry.com is for you.
The story so far. We have put up:
A browser plugin to send your browser history to hystry.com.
The inbox page where you get notified when a page gets updated.
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