At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

I would imagine that a fairly large percentage of the Hacker News community probably works for themselves or as freelance contractors. The main problem is not that of hiding your browsing from an employer, but having the self control to work rather than browsing.

If I worked at a place where I felt that reading HN would get me fired, there would be lots of other problems.

This is great. But why isn't it async?

At work? Try working!

<i>At work?</i><p>Yup, and that means I have a pretty restrictive firewall.<p>Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:<i>8081</i> &#60;----

I laughed out loud when I clicked on that link. (Un)fortunately for me, I work from home so I don't have anyone checking over my shoulder.

Good idea. Better idea - YC news from the console:<p><a href="http://www.catonmat.net/blog/follow-hacker-news-from-the-console" rel="nofollow">http://www.catonmat.net/blog/follow-hacker-news-from-the-con...</a><p>And, for old timers, there's always lynx.

My version in HTML/JS (click the license to toggle HN)<p><a href="http://autoreverse.s3.amazonaws.com/mit_yc_plain_text.html" rel="nofollow">http://autoreverse.s3.amazonaws.com/mit_yc_plain_text.html</a>

I really enjoyed this, its an excellent UX pun. If you could use enough javascript to make it look like an emacs buffer some pointy haired types would be hard pressed to discern between this and actual work.<p>That being said, if you are truly into employee surveillance (and I know of at least one company that is) then what the screen shows is irrelevant since the http{s} traffic between your work station and the world is just as clear without having to 'walk around and look into your cube.'<p>Total kudos to the skinning though, I really enjoyed it.

Here's the Github: <a href="https://github.com/ericz/CodeHN" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ericz/CodeHN</a>

There was a similar one for Reddit in C# style. Nice.

Funny, but my boss is also a hacker and now recognizes this =(

Nice! But it doesn't beat the Jabber client embedded as an Excel macro I used while working for a bank.

This reminds me of the "boss key" in video games (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key</a>)<p>Nicely done!

I wonder if someone could learn Node simply by browsing HN in this format for a few weeks.

Ordinary folk (non-programmer's) already have this <a href="http://myprogressbar.com/" rel="nofollow">http://myprogressbar.com/</a>

To read in vim:<p><pre><code> curl http://ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/ | vim -</code></pre>

Oh, sad. (That people need this). Clever, though.

It's awesome. It would be great to be able to read the HN comments like that too.

I spend most of my day talking with customers and reviewing contracts etc.. As much as I would love to, I think if my boss caught me looking at code like this he would fire me !

Why would you get fired over browsing websites that fall within the set guidelines by your employer? If a website like HN doesn't fit in there, you got screwed over and time to find a new job.<p>An employee should have the freedom to browse the web with limited restrictions. If that is not the case then it is a violation of the employees creativity and could hurt the employer in the long run since his/her employees are bound to limited creativity on the job sight.

OMG, this is amazing. Very funny! And you can actually say " there must be a bug here, i just cant find", and read everthing.

The require('http') has an extra ; after it.

Someone came up with a very similar solution for Reddit a short while ago: <a href="http://codereddit.com" rel="nofollow">http://codereddit.com</a>. Not to say that this is plagiarism; great minds often think alike.

Yea, managing by treating people as dumb automatons is fundementally flawed.

Finally something useful hacker news. I have been reading way to much hacker news lately, and my colleagues have started to take notice.<p>Next month I hope someone could make a html source code theme for hacker news.

Cool site. :)<p>You've got a bug on Ask HN posts, though, where you get a relative URL from HN (/comments/blah) which ends up relative to your site rather than news.yc.

Reminds me of the Ghostzilla project:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostzilla" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostzilla</a>

Ha! I see what you did there, eric.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/WAwRx.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/WAwRx.jpg</a>

This is awesome. Someone port it to my circa 1994 cobol compiler and I'll be set.

This is hilarious. Not sure about useful, but hilarious - yes.

I really wanted to be able to upvote from that interface.

I'd be concerned about getting fired for using node.js..

How about one that looks like a spreadsheet?

Now I just need a reddit version!

Bravo, this is extremely clever.

node.js looks really sexy, can't wait to become stable enough for a productive system.

Very cool. Helpful too. Thanks!

Freakin' funny. Love it!

this is great! is there a 'next' button? Did I just not see it?

honestly we need a mobile app for hn. somebody?

Very cool :)

Dude, nice!

Alt-B!

now working for me!<p>for some reason it's pushing to <a href="http://ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/" rel="nofollow">http://ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/</a> and not nowjs.com