Hackerfeed for News.YC

icco · on Aug 11, 2008

This is neat, not something I would actually use, but neat. Well designed and easy to use. I went to the page and instantaneously understood what it was for. Which, in my mind, is the sign of a well designed and good application. Nice work.

babul · on Aug 12, 2008

Simple. Functional. Fast. Thanks!

I actually like the fact you can look at feeds and see deleted and changed posts. With observation and a little comparison, you can see the revision process (or lack of) for (your favourite) users.

bootload · on Aug 11, 2008

"... Somewhat similar to friendfeed for News.YC. Its going to be slow because I need you guys to warm up the cache for me ..."

Works fine for me, no delays. I'm still impressed with the personal RSS feed. With comments this makes it even better. Well done.

soundsop · on Aug 12, 2008

Did you ask for permission to crawl news.yc? (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=271119)

twism · on Aug 12, 2008

no i did not.

I'm not crawling the entire site, just enough to get the data that is needed. I think the app would still work if my ip was throttled anyways, albeit new items would show up on feeds later (but the app response time would be quicker).

RichardPrice · on Aug 12, 2008

This is seriously cool. It's a fantastic idea and the implementation is great.

jfornear · on Aug 11, 2008

Will it work if I add http://ycfeeds.com/hackerfeed?user=jfornear into my friendfeed?

EDIT: I guess not, but you should add friendfeed support :D

twism · on Aug 11, 2008

You want to look at http://ycfeeds.com

aofstad · on Aug 12, 2008

This is awesome. Gonna put a comment feed on my blog :) Thanks!

markbao · on Aug 12, 2008

I love it. Great visualization. Nice work.

dhotson · on Aug 12, 2008

Cool hack.. keep it up. :)