Twitter is often my source of Hacker News, but I had a problem of getting just the news without HN comments, which many times are even better than news itself, so I came up with an idea to have news and comments under the same URL.<p>I parse RSS feeds, put new items in database, get bit.ly short link and post all to Twitter.<p>Links on twitter are like this http://xcode.x10.mx/?id=2411858 and to see HN comments all you need is to move mouse over the handle on the left side.<p>What do you think? Like it, have any suggestions, ideas or anything else in mind feel free to speak up.<p>I'm happily using it and if someone else find it useful too even better:)<p>http://twitter.com/YCnews
Nice idea, but I'm seeing a few problems.<p>Clicked the "A JVM does what" link on the twitter feed and after a wait that was an eternity in internet time (probably int he 10 second range or more) the page looked like an iframe with the original url loaded in.<p>And the interface is confusing. It is never good when I first feel like crying out in rage that there are none of the promised comments, then only realize where to find them after reading your explanation a few times to pinpoint the info (I'm a product of the internet, read very sparsely :P)<p>My suggestion is to make it more obvious where the comments are, or even to parse them out of the HN page and display them in your own way.
I like the idea and this has been an issue I've felt while following most HN Twitter feeds but the implementation is a little.. <i>shiny</i>. If you made it a bit more basic (fill the window for starters, no need for the giant margins) and ditched the transitions, it'd fit in better with the geek aesthetic.<p>Also, consider branching out to the firehose sometime. I come to HN anyway so I don't really need such a thing for stuff that's already on the front page, but having everything in /new with something like this means I'm more likely to vote it up :-) Anything that encourages people to monitor /new is a big win.