I have a dedicated HN tab that I come back to and reload multiple times a day to see whats new and hot.<p>I wrote a Chrome Extension to:<p>- quickly scan new articles since my last reload
- quickly scan highly discussed articles
- open actual articles and discussions in a new tab<p>This links to the source code. The chrome extension is linked at the bottom of the github page.<p>Note:<p>- This extension only operates on the HN front page (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/news">https://news.ycombinator.com/news</a>)
- The first time you reload the HN front page after installing the extension all articles will get highlighted.
I made this user script that does the same. Uses localstorage, when you come back and refresh, if there were new stories, it adds `(NEW)` in green before the title.<p>Also added a comment count change in there recently.<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/e7c9ed3936ba69e522f8cb38671f1da7/" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/e7c9ed3936ba69e522f8cb38...</a>
I have a uBlock filter rule that does something like this, but with a plain regex,<p><pre><code> ycombinator.com##:xpath(//span[contains(@class,"age")]/a):has-text(/(\d+) minute(s?) ago/):style(color: Teal !important; font-weight: bold)
</code></pre>
It highlights both comments and posts.<p>(I like using this trick, the uBlock regex → CSS matching rule that's so generically useful. I can configure things I'd otherwise be too lazy to configure, if it wasn't for uBlock).
This is interesting but seeing the same headlines over and over does two things for me:<p><pre><code> * internal opening-HN-too-much alert
* headline spaced repetition learning</code></pre>
Slightly unrelated, but I've been using a similar Stylish theme to this one for years and it makes my HN experience much more readable and enjoyable: <a href="https://userstyles.org/styles/46180/georgify-for-hacker-news" rel="nofollow">https://userstyles.org/styles/46180/georgify-for-hacker-news</a>
I've defaulted to this <a href="https://hckrnews.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hckrnews.com/</a> intead of HN homepage. This is ordered by time rather than rank.
I do this too, sometimes I wonder what all has changed in 24hrs, so this is great. I will even keep a tab open untouched so I can see what was open before, and open a new one. Making "snapshot tabs" if you will.
Now I just need to rework it for my favorite HN front page viewer:<p><a href="https://hackernews.betacat.io/" rel="nofollow">https://hackernews.betacat.io/</a>
This is awesome! On an unrelated note, anyone have good resources for converting chrome extensions to Safari?<p>I found this and will try it later if no one has a better suggestion:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/10meyn5/how_to_convert_chrome_extensions_to_safari/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/10meyn5/how_to_conv...</a>