HN has a great community and a lot of intelligent people with a wealth of knowledge that has truly not been tapped yet. There are times when I crave reading technical postings and learning beyond my current levels of understanding but HN does not always permit that unless I sift through the broad spectrum of links. Usethesource.com to me appears like a continuation of HN in a pure technical fashion but is yet to see any community form around it or more than 1-2 postings per day. It would be great if we could help it flourish.
I like this idea. Two questions/suggestions (not sure if they already work or not):
1. Can you make it so I can log in with OpenID/Facebook/something else that doesn't require me to sign up yet again.
2. Can you make this open source so we can collaboratively work on the algorithms behind it etc.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 51.4 ms ] thread1. Can you make it so I can log in with OpenID/Facebook/something else that doesn't require me to sign up yet again. 2. Can you make this open source so we can collaboratively work on the algorithms behind it etc.
I am merely a user who wishes to utilize the resource and hopefully with the help of HN get others to contribute to it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc
Similar as http://twitter.com/#!/hackernewsbot ?
/yes, i could roll my own if the desire burned enough
/em just sayin'
Changed those two and it's working fine.
There have been a couple similar experiments trying to draw on HN's community, but fizzle b/c they drop off the radar to quickly.
1. I've added the bookmarklet
2. I've fixed the weird HTML in the page title on the About and Formatting pages.
If people have suggestions please make them on UTS as I am not monitoring HN very often these days.