cobbman's comments

On: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

[cobbman]

I want hacker news UX to stay as it is, mostly, but these are features I'd welcome.

[dang → cobbman]

What features would you welcome?

[minouye → dang]

It would be nice to flag who the OP is in the story comments. Provides helpful context, esp. if they posted their own project.

Here's one potential implementation:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-maker-badge/khod...

[latchkey → minouye]

Implemented.

[niyazpk → dang]

- Better formatting for text: (1) bullet points (2) markdown-like links (3) Slightly different background for code.

- More "sub-reddits". We already have Ask/Show HN. We probably can add a couple more to keep everything organized.

- Option to auto-collapse comments threads deeper than X levels by default. When they are all open by default like today, only the top comment and its children get more of the eyeballs.

[riidom → dang]

Also "unread comment highlighting" would be so good to have.

[robin_reala → riidom]

That’s coming to stock HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670008

[latchkey → riidom]

That was actually kind of a pain to implement. Refined didn't do it fully, mine covers a lot more edge cases.

[riidom → latchkey]

Can imagine!

[latchkey → dang]

All the features I've added to this extension.

But if you want to pick one: Inline replies.

Right now, I have to do a ton of magic to make that happen in order to work around your auth flow. Namely, pulling the auth token out of the other page and then having to keep track of it in session storage.

I could delete a whole lot of code if that was just built in.

[dang → latchkey]

By inline replies do you mean you click 'reply' and then a textbox opens in place?

The browser extension I wrote years ago, and which tomhow and I use for moderation, does this. I feel guilty about not having shared it a long time ago, but there just has never been time. Now that LLMs are starting to let me do things I've wanted to do for years, there's a chance I'll actually get to it before the sun dies.

[latchkey → dang]

Yes. Here is the implementation I've got... note that I also added links to the rules/guidelines in an attempt to help with that issue too, heh.

And yes... AI enables so many things.

https://oj-hn.com/assets/inline-reply-light.png

[latchkey → cobbman]

Thanks. My feeling as well.

On: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

[cobbman]

This right here is the way to do it.

On: Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?

[cobbman]

> Then other thing is, no matter how smart you are, you can’t debug yourself, you need other people.

This is very true, and not always realized.

Another way I heard it said which is easy to remember: "You can't read the label from inside the bottle."

[dejj → cobbman]

“Dr. Rosen: You can't reason your way out of this!

John Forbes Nash: Why not? Why can't I?

Dr. Rosen: Because your mind is where your problem is in the first place!”

- 'A Beautiful Mind'.