What does HackerNews think of HNES?

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What I don't understand is why they all go full classic OS demo, with always the same suite of basic apps (note, paint, photo...)

Why not build (complex but specific) SaaS applications that just leverage OS designs paradigms on the frontend (taskbar, windows, notifications, desktop, icons..) inside the same tab?

What if the OS-like apps were open plugins that will augment that SaaS?

[edit] here is an example: Imagine an alternative OS-like interface to HN that is plugin-based. You can add themes, or apps like messaging between HN users (in different windows), keyword-based and comment replies notification (a la Action Center)...

it is like HNES [1] on steroids.

[1] https://github.com/etcet/HNES

Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683334 for example loads fine, but the contractor one just loads nothing for me. Checked network tab and don't see any errors or anything. Hmm, inspector tab shows the full DOM, but none of it is visible in the browser window... https://ibb.co/3vDts8r

EDIT: Ok, must be an extension. Works fine in private window.

EDIT 2: the culprit appears to be the Hacker News Enhancement Suite extension on FF. Once disabled, the poll works. https://github.com/etcet/HNES

If you're interested, the HNES extension formats it

https://github.com/etcet/HNES

The ‘Hacker News Enhancement Suite’ browser extension highlights new replies on the comment pages, including the ‘threads’/‘your comments’ page. Still a ‘polling’ workflow, but better than nothing. Also adds a few useful links in the header, and makes the front page a bit better-looking.

https://github.com/etcet/HNES/

(There's a downside that it breaks the ‘more’ links on paginated comment pages.)

Weirdly it seems that third-party Android apps for HN haven't bothered with doing anything similar, checking for replies in the background and popping up notifications. That would be pretty much perfect, and isn't really too complicated.

Does it? I can’t find anything in the code[0] (after 2 minutes) to suggest that. Not saying you’re wrong (I haven’t checked), but it doesn’t appear to access your history at all.[1]

[0]: https://github.com/etcet/HNES

[1]: https://github.com/etcet/HNES/search?q=history&type=

Man, that blogpost [0] really did a number on me. Warning, navel-gazing ahead.

I have a browser extension [1] that lets me set custom tags on HN users. I'm not unconflicted about using it, since I have some ideological hangups that tell me to let people's words speak for themselves and to not let someone's history muddy the waters of a discussion in the present. That being said, HN isn't anonymous and it's a comparatively small community and I decided I might as well try keeping track (to some extent) of who's saying what here because it's practicable and there are other places I can experience death-of-the-author just fine. Besides, it reminds me that jacquesm sorted two metric tons of lego using legos and machine learning that one time, so now that always makes me smile when I see him comment.

So here I am, looking at your comment and trying to figure out what it tells me about you as a commenter - what I would want to remember about you if I saw you again. It needs to be fairly terse, to fit.

The first idea that arrives is "It's not reasonable to be white." I dismiss this immediately, because it's the most cynical and least-founded take on your comment (though darkly funny to me).

The second idea is "The 'It's ok to be white' campaign is not reasonable." I turn this over in my mind a few times and even start typing it out. But while I'm typing, I re-read your edit and pause. Then I realize - I'm doing exactly what that blogpost described. "What did 0xff00ffee mean here?"

What if all you meant to do is ask is the literal question "Are you saying that the 'It's ok to be white' campaign is reasonable?" And it's hard for me to even come up with a way of phrasing this in such a way that it sufficiently emphasises the literal, un-euphemistic, un-implicating character that I'm trying describe.

Then I pause again and realize that I've fallen down a semantic rabbithole and there's a snowball's chance in hell that you meant your comment in the third way. And by this time I've read your next comment [2] and am aware that you're aware of the ambiguous, scissor statement nature of your original comment and the amount of context that must be conveyed in order to disambiguate it. This humanises you. Instead of a snarky internet signaller, you become a real person, with parents whose views you care about and who's already expended effort trying to convey the that large context to people without setting off the self-generating minefield that you know exists. The snappy comment wasn't because you haven't stopped caring about changing people's minds; you're just tired of arguing with apparently superficial people who aren't prepared to take context into account (and you were responding to someone who may be a particularly strong example of such).

So I guess you're "a real human bean".

0: https://sneak.berlin/20191201/american-communication

1: https://github.com/etcet/HNES

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22924252

There is actually a HNES[0] with both firefox[1] and chrome[2] support. I use it primarily because it highlights new comments from the last time I visited a submission.

[0] https://github.com/etcet/HNES

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hnes/

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojd...

Here's hoping Hacker News Enhancement Suite becomes available soon.

https://github.com/etcet/HNES

Sorry, with Hacker News Enhancement Suite[1] it looked great.

[1] https://github.com/etcet/HNES

I've been using the Hacker News Enhancement Suite[1] for a while in Chrome. Among RES-style features like keyboard navigation it also enables collapsable threads. The source[2] is available on GitHub.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc... [2] https://github.com/etcet/HNES

This is my favourite - adds a lot of nice stuff, and though it sometimes breaks due to site changes, it's always updated pretty quickly to fix issues. And it's open source: https://github.com/etcet/HNES
If you're using Chrome I can only strongly recommend the HN Enhancement Suite which takes care of this issue: https://github.com/etcet/HNES
You can use HNES (https://github.com/etcet/HNES) for Chrome to get collapsible comments. You can also use my fork (https://github.com/ibejoeb/HNES) to try some enhancements to the collapsible comments, which does persistent collapses and new comment indicators on the parent thread.
Looks good. My only comment is that I really wish it showed more posts. I have some big monitors, with pretty high resolution, and I love being able to see lots of content on them.

As far as dealing with my taste in UI I use Hacker News Enhancement Suite[0] for computers and MiniHack for mobile[1](not affiliated). The primary reason I switched to MiniHack was I really wanted the ability to log in and comment. I spend a lot of time working on just an iPad (writing, etc.) and it's great to be able to comment as myself without any of this fancy browser stuff.

[0] https://github.com/etcet/HNES [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6...

Yep, both of you are correct\nHNES: https://github.com/etcet/HNES

Pretty much vanilla Elementary OS theme with Source Sans pro front.

It has color coded upvote counts too! http://i.imgur.com/6NQyhPI.png

I take pull requests at https://github.com/etcet/HNES but I only have a few hours a week to work on it.

I use HNES (Hacker News Extension Suite) and it's awesome.

Here's the GitHub link: https://github.com/etcet/HNES

etcet is awesome about contributions, I added a big feature and he merged my pull request within hours.

On top of making HN look way-more-awesomer, it also adds features like comment collapsing (best thing ever), inline comment reply, and more.

If you're a Hacker News user on Chrome, definitely check it out.

Collapsable comments! Joy!

Also, thanks for putting it on the hub[1] for forkage. I look forward to twiddling.

[1]https://github.com/etcet/HNES

And I actually posted my extension also called 'Hacker News Enhancement Suite' yesterday but no one saw/cared.

https://github.com/etcet/HNES http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3933090

I cannot say how angry/sad/confused this makes me :(