Show HN: HNRelevant – Add a "related" section to Hacker News (github.com)
It's been 2 years since the initial release [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102610). The initial version was a very basic prototype which was not available anywhere beyond the GitHub repo. You had to install it as a userscript or load the extension manually.
Since then, it remained simple but better, new features include:
- Improved accuracy by also using comments to help gauge the topic of discussion and the right keywords.
- Published as plugin for more browsers: Chrome, Firefox (including android), and more recently Microsoft Edge.
- Support for narrow screens and mobile devices.
- Added preference controls.
You're here because you love interesting HN discussions but they're often buried away like hidden gems, so give it a try and let me know what you think.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 94.0 ms ] threadI think I know why it was hard to identify the font. I used two:
The larger text (Orange) is 'Space Grotesk': https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Space+Grotesk
The smaller text in black is 'Roc Grotesk'
(no shade to you, OP. Seems like a cool idea, great that it exists. Just that if there were the option to turn this off on most social media I would probably take it)
> if there were the option to turn this off on most social media I would probably take it
This extension has 'manual' mode which only show the search field by default and then you get to fetch results at your command. Very much like an embedded search engine.
Its functionality is more like the book recommendations you come across on goodreads. It only shows when you visit a discussion you're interested in. The nature of this website by itself is quite different from other social media.
But I understand where you're coming from and appreciate you raising awareness.
I'm interested, what makes HN frontpage different? Why spend time on HN but avoid "fun" submissions? To me the extension serves as almost a shortcut to help you find interesting stories you're looking for. I imagine you also closely monitor and limit the time you spend on HN as well?
Do you have recommendation for books or articles that resonate or helped influence you regarding this.
There is a compatibility issue with the "Modern for Hacker News. A redesigned web interface for Hacker News." browser extension (I use Firefox). If it is active, I do not see the block with related news.
Can this be fixed?
I need to investigate what kind of mutations the other extension is doing to HN interface and figure out a way to be compatible with it on top of the native one.
I opened a GitHub issue if you're interested in following the status there: https://github.com/imdj/HNRelevant/issues/24
UPDATE: Based on initial look it seems that the 'Modern for Hacker News' extension completely restructures the DOM and uses its own class names. If someone have suggestions to be compatible with different designs, I'm down to do it.
- Visit a submission page like this Show HN.
- Check permissions for the extension. Maybe they were skipped on installation somehow.
- Are you using other extensions for HN? they might obstruct this extension from integrating with the site.
Edit: that was actually pretty easy you can see it here: https://webfu.se/+hn/
mine is here: https://github.com/swyxio/hnx
- displays the latest links from Y Combinator's Hacker News
- Offers a link for submitting the url of the current tab.
- shows previous results when submitting in case someone recently submitted
This would mean you could do things like:
1) Write a blog post, and then find all other blog posts that were the 'closest to yours' that was ever written.
2) Do basic "Search" in a way that's probably more powerful than even the Google Page-Rank Algo, by being able to look up every web page that exists based on a Cosine Similarity.
It's a shame Web3 didn't really ever "go viral" in a big way, or else we'd be able to do this stuff right now.
People act like embeddings are all you need for search.
Curse of dimensionality also means what you think is the most similar is not necessarily the most similar thing in vector space. See the last Hn discussion on word embeddings for some examples.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43797896
The idea is to then allow bloggers to link relevant posts so readers can easily traverse the web.