The interface also allow to comment, post and interact with the original HN platform. Credentials are stored locally and are never sent to any server, you can check the source code here: https://github.com/GabrielePicco/hacker-news-rich.
For suggestions and features requests you can write me here: gabrielepicco.github.io
I also checked and it appears to be the case. However, weirdly enough the original ycombinator.com domain is registered through Gandi, and the addresses given for Y Combinator are just Gandi's address. If they did register hacker.news, they did it also through Gandi but this time they seemed to actually put their address in CA.
I don’t understand the register and login part. Does creating a new account here mean this is some splinter project that has its own separate account system or is it tied to an actual HN account?
Yeah, had the same question. But from their about page:
> The interface also allow to comment, post and interact with the original HN platform. Credentials are stored locally and are never sent to any server, you can check the source code here: https://github.com/GabrielePicco/hacker-news-rich.
… except that there’s no guarantee that that matches what’s actually served. The only way to be confident is to vet the actual code that runs, which would also require content-based whitelisting (if the code served changes, refuse to run until the new code is vetted), something that I’m not aware of any browser, browser extension or other tool capable of doing.
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 50.3 ms ] threadThis project is an enhanced reader for Ycombinator Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/.
The interface also allow to comment, post and interact with the original HN platform. Credentials are stored locally and are never sent to any server, you can check the source code here: https://github.com/GabrielePicco/hacker-news-rich.
For suggestions and features requests you can write me here: gabrielepicco.github.io
Is that an official YC owned domain?
> The interface also allow to comment, post and interact with the original HN platform. Credentials are stored locally and are never sent to any server, you can check the source code here: https://github.com/GabrielePicco/hacker-news-rich.
… except that there’s no guarantee that that matches what’s actually served. The only way to be confident is to vet the actual code that runs, which would also require content-based whitelisting (if the code served changes, refuse to run until the new code is vetted), something that I’m not aware of any browser, browser extension or other tool capable of doing.