Tell HN: Scratching my own itch: HN new comments highlight

18 pointsadn3715y ago11 comments

There's been a lot of interesting long threads lately and I feel it's difficult to keep track of new comments after a few hours/days.

I've written a GreaseMonkey script that allows to instantly view new comments since your last visit. Hope it helps.

More info and source: http://github.com/adn37/HNCommentsHighlight

18 pointsadn3715y ago11 comments

There's been a lot of interesting long threads lately and I feel it's difficult to keep track of new comments after a few hours/days.

I've written a GreaseMonkey script that allows to instantly view new comments since your last visit. Hope it helps.

More info and source: http://github.com/adn37/HNCommentsHighlight

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wvl15y ago· 2 in thread

I built this functionality into a Safari and Chrome extension, that also pairs nicely with the alternative interface I built: http://hckrnews.com/about.html

bryanlarsen15y ago

Now the question is: why didn't your original announcement (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552545) ever make the front page? It looks like a nice interface that you put a lot of work into and would be useful to many people...

maushu15y ago

Luck. People forget that luck is also important for success.

You might have awesome skills but bad luck and fail, while someone else might have mediocre skills but great luck and succeed.

ritonlajoie15y ago· 2 in thread

Hi. Talking about this topic, there is SmartPeople (http://nasr.ath.cx) which lets you subscribe to HN users and threads. You'll then receive any new comment made by any user, by e-mail. The same for the new comments made on a particular thread.

adn37OP15y ago

Interesting, I missed that one.

Though I hope somehow comments are pooled before sending, otherwise this would really be overkill for major threads.

ritonlajoie15y ago

comments are checked every 20 minutes, it's working pretty fine afaik :) (disclaimer : i did it)

grep15y ago· 1 in thread

It doesn't seem to work very well here.

adn37OP15y ago

Ironically, no

akkartik15y ago

An impromptu code jam on the subject from 3 years ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65307

whyleyc15y ago

Cicky: http://github.com/adn37/HNCommentsHighlight

MichaelSalib15y ago

It is not working consistently for me. Maybe one of every ten page views will I see the UI.

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