Keyboard
- j / k
- Move down and up the story list. The arrow keys scroll whatever has focus.
- Enter
- Read the marked story in the article reader.
- ]
- Read the next story in the same article-reader applet. Back returns to the previous story.
- p
- Pin or unpin the marked story, which keeps it in Pinned.
- n / N
- Move to the next or previous top-level comment in the window in front.
- c
- Collapse or expand that comment.
- f
- Hide or show the story list.
- Esc
- Close a menu or this help.
- Access key m
- Go to the menu bar. Most browsers take it with Alt on Windows and Linux, and Safari with Control and Option.
- ?
- Show this help.
Windows
Each story opens in a window holding its article above its discussion; drag the bar between them to share the room differently. A window can be moved by its title bar, resized from any edge, snapped to a half or a corner by dragging it there, maximised, or minimised to the bar at the foot of the page. Use Window > New reader window to open an empty reader, or a story row's Open in new reader window button to compare articles. Docked readers keep their articles when you select another story from the sidebar. Minimized readers can be restored and reused for their site. A window's Next story link reads on down the list in the same window.
A link in a comment or an article to another Hacker News or Lobsters thread opens that thread in a window too. A link to a single HN comment opens the comment above its replies.
While a story's window is in front, the Story and Discussion menus in the menu bar hold its commands: pinning, Next story, sorting, collapsing every thread, jumping to the first new comment. Each window also remembers where you were in its article and discussion, so a reload, or Back to a story that Next took you past, finds your place again. Closing a window forgets it.
The whole arrangement lives in the address, so a bookmark or a shared link brings it back, and Back undoes the last change. Moving between Hacker News, Lobsters, their lists, Pinned and Find changes only the list, and leaves the windows open.
The list
The pin at the start of a row keeps the story in Pinned, and the cross at its end hides it. Pinned can be narrowed by words in the title, site or author, by source, and to the stories you haven't opened yet, and ordered by when you pinned them, by points or by comments; the filters are part of the address, so a filtered view can be bookmarked. Scroll past the end of the list to load more. Domain filters, in the View menu, hide every story from a site.
Browsing view
View > Windowed and View > Classic select the browsing view and save your default in this browser. Window view reuses a reader for each feed. Classic view opens stories and applets as pages. Open as a page and Open in a window are one-off actions that do not change your saved default. Direct page links always open as pages.
Applets
The Applets menu in the menu bar holds three tools, each a window of its own. Replies to me takes your Hacker News user name and lists the replies to your last thirty comments and stories, checking again every three minutes while it is open, and marking what is new since you last marked them read. Look up a user opens a profile on Hacker News or Lobsters, with their submissions and recent comments, as a commenter's name in any discussion does; the bar at the top of a profile looks up someone else in the same window, and Back returns to the one before. Who is hiring? filters the posts of HN's monthly hiring threads by the words you type.
They read only what the sites publish to everyone, so none of them asks for a login, and your user name stays in this browser.
Find
Find takes any link and lists every time it was submitted to Hacker News and Lobsters, so you can read each discussion of it.
About
YAVCHN never sees your Hacker News or Lobsters login. The discussion is fetched from each site's public API; to vote or reply, follow the link above the discussion, or the arrow beside a comment, to the source's own site. Pins, hidden stories, filters and layout are kept in this browser only.
Open source: github.com/paulmooreparks/yavchn. Built with PUDL.
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Nostalgia is the most beautiful form of pain.
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I'm a studied developer, and occasionally terrible person.
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"Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself."
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Those of us who love computers need to have something slightly wrong with us, an irrationality to our rationality, a way to deny all the evidence of our eyes and ears that the hostile box of silicon is dead and unyielding. And fashion by cunning machinery the illusion that it lives.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41282181
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Our time is short, but not yet expired. Make the most of it.
- Metadat
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---'Among the dead, there are so many thousands of the beautiful'. — Virgil
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"You're a ghost, driving a meat coated skeleton made from stardust, riding a rock floating through space"
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"You are the universe experiencing itself"
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Scar tissue wears out relationships:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36093954
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"I mean, what have you got to lose? You know, you come from nothing. You're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing." — Monty Python
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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve Jobs
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"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." — Terry Pratchett
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"People look at failure much more carefully than they look at success."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042340
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I will comment when I am a world-renowned expert, and also when I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. Can you spot the difference?
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"Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard, standard performance is sub-standard, and sub-standard performance is not permitted to exist - that, I warn you." — Captain Queeg (The Caine Mutiny)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny
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"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable." — Seneca
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"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools." — Thucydides
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'Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and it's gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable to sit alone with images on a screen given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. And that's fine in low doses but if it's the basic main staple of your diet you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die. — David Foster Wallace
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"Seize the means of computation." — Cory Doctorow
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"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm"
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https://gist.githubusercontent.com/eliot-akira/6eaecda619d0fafd1d74/raw/4dcb405f0f604c240e3eabb5ecf88d143cf99582/how-software-companies-die
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"One can not learn what one thinks one already knows" —Epictetus
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"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me..." — Abe Simpson
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"I made a design pattern for reducing the amount of flour needed in bread"
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Joy can be shared, but grief must be endured alone.
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Mark Zuckerberg: "Haters are supporters; hate is a solution" — GPT-3@filipo
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The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge. ― Aristotle
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A preoccupation with the means is a lack of commitment to the end.
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"Man is a gregarious animal. We work in herds, in teams. The bear can do exactly as he pleases, for he works alone. We do not work alone. We depend throughout our lives on the goodwill of other men. If a man does not learn to bend, to be friendly and considerate, and to respect his brother’s ego—in things both big and little—he’ll find himself disliked and locked up in his own unhappiness." — C.F. Braun
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I'm an adventure seeker on an empty street. Just an alley creeper with light on my feet. A middle age fighter screaming, with no time for doubt. With the pain and anger can't see a way out. "It ain't much I'm asking" you'll hear me say "gotta find me a future, move out of my way". I'm a man with a one track mind. So much to do in one lifetime, not a man for compromise and where's and why's and living lies. So I'm living it all and I'm giving it all.
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Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. — Carl Jung
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Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them. — Brian Eno
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Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention. — Richard Feynman
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"Information is not truth." — Yuval Noah Harari
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If I were the plaything of every thought, I would be a fool, not a wise man. ― Rumi
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Dhamma is in your mind, not in the forest. You don't have to go and look anywhere else. ― Ajahn Chah
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---We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. ― Thomas Merton
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Saying yes frequently is an additive strategy. Saying no is a subtractive strategy. Keep saying no to a lot of things - the negative and unimportant ones - and once in awhile, you will be left with an idea which is so compelling that it would be a screaming no-brainer 'yes'. — unknown
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Addiction is giving up everything for one thing, sobriety is giving up one thing for everything.
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The tree remembers but the axe forgets.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world, but in the process he loses his soul. ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Nature is prolific. There are many more creatures that are born than can possibly survive." -- Carl Sagan
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"The Love"
https://www.wired.com/story/lee-holloway-devastating-decline-brilliant-young-coder/
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People are what make life worth living.
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I love that turn of phrase. Insects or near-automata. Describes it perfectly.
LinkedIn -- like a floodlight in a swamp. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40863023
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Sitting around smoking marijuana, eating cheetos, and masturbating do not constitute plans in my book. -- Walter White, Breaking Bad
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Flagged gems:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31453554
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Hilarity ensued:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33104954
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34947100
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https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
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https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=metadat
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https://metadat.at.hn
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