Thanks again to everyone who submitted an app for the HNSearch API contest (http://www.hnsearch.com/contest). We received 28 submissions and couldn't be happier with the results.<p>The winner of the contest will be the app with the most number of votes at midnight tonight (Monday, June 20th 11:59pm EST). Please try them all and let the authors know what you think.<p>Vote for your favorite apps!
I didn't even realize there was a contest until this morning, but I merged in qhoxie's pull request to news:yc (listed as "iPhone App" in the voting options) yesterday, and I have to say, it works quite well.<p>I'm in the process of submitting a build of news:yc with the search support to the App Store now, so look for it in a week or two. Thanks again qhoxie for the patch!
I love "HN Trends by sant0sk1", but it really needs to normalize for the change in traffic over time. Instead of a raw number of points, it should be a percentage of all points, otherwise, all graphs look like this:<p><pre><code> | /
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Just a little background on the iPhone submission. The work was done on a fork of news:yc (<a href="http://newsyc.me" rel="nofollow">http://newsyc.me</a>). The author has already merged the changes in, so those of you using the app will receive an update with search.<p>Here is how it looks: <a href="http://img.skitch.com/20110620-1mewpjkhy72hbhghw2ycmtjjpa.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img.skitch.com/20110620-1mewpjkhy72hbhghw2ycmtjjpa.jp...</a>
There could be a spike in HN Trend's traffic <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/82824209721597952" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/82824209721597952</a>
Regarding my Ticker Tape app here's my original description with a bit of explanation on what it is:<p>OK - I have no illusions about winning the contest, but just for fun I gave it a go by adding support to my existing Android app, SocialMediaTicker. My app is designed for when your device is charging or otherwise idle and is a bit of an eye-candy display. It's a 3D, interactive ticker-tape type display that scrolls facebook feeds, twitter streams, news headlines, photos, rss feeds, etc. Click once to stop an item, click on it again to call up the full photo, story, rss feed, etc.<p>For HN, I added a headline search capability and also made it part of my experimental Twitter Trends mashup where the search terms for content automatically come from the currently trending topics under Twitter. This can be hit-and-miss for HN as oftentimes Twitter trending terms don't match well to the topics found under HN, but other times I've been surprised about what pops up.<p>If you want to give the mashup a try, I'd turn most other content off, turn the mashup on, sit back and watch what happens! Configuration of all content can be found in the preferences menu. By default HN is off.<p>To give it a try on your Android, download the app here:<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaticker.com/SocialMediaTicker.apk" rel="nofollow">http://www.socialmediaticker.com/SocialMediaTicker.apk</a><p>Feedback appreciated!
Too late for the contest but please check it out.
HN Follow: Find discussions that interested you <a href="http://hnfollow.ep.io/" rel="nofollow">http://hnfollow.ep.io/</a><p>Any suggestions or comments is welcome.<p>Edit: HN Thread <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674880" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674880</a>
I've occasionally run into some bugs with the /hn tags on unscatter.com, over all I've found it a pretty useful addition since I've added it. /hn has already made it to the list of tags I use for my daily search on unscatter.com <a href="http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=riak+%2Fdate&t=mongodb+%2Fdate&t=python+tornado+%2Fdate&t=yui3+%2Fdate&t=zeromq+%2Fdate&t=erlang+%2Fdate" rel="nofollow">http://www.unscatter.com/search/?q=riak+%2Fdate&t=mongod...</a>
I'm just gonna plug my submission real quick: check out Shomi. I just added the charting whatnot to it, which so far seems marginally useful but kinda cool. You can search for stuff like "recent comments by [username]", "top comments by [username]", "top submissions", etc. The UI is fairly OK; I'll make the search functionality more interesting after I get a couple hours' sleep.<p>Leave some suggestions and I'll see what I can tackle in a bit.
This is great, it let me quickly relocate mechanical_fish's classic "gone to the zoo" metaphor. Probably still the all-time best post I've read on HN: <a href="http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?limit=100&username=mechanical_fish" rel="nofollow">http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?limit=100&username=mechani...</a>
If you created any of these entries and you are looking for work, like contract or full time, you should post on this entry. These submissions are impressive.