Show HN: More HN(github.com)
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Show HN: More HN
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There's a couple of Chrome extensions on https://github.com/adriel/awesome-hacker-news#browser-extens...
Imagine a future where we could put our code into a search engine and then get back apps/programs that have similar functionality...
We used to have it, and it was glorious, until Google tooketh away:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search
It was amazing to see similar code and to see how they approached things. Of course, if only really worked with snippets, but as a learner it was truly amazing.
I really wonder if they kept it for internal use.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search
It was amazing to see similar code and to see how they approached things. Of course, if only really worked with snippets, but as a learner it was truly amazing.
I really wonder if they kept it for internal use.
If you're looking for a GCS replacement, Sourcegraph is a thing! We've taken a lot of inspiration from Google Code Search (both the public version and the internal version which was even better): https://sourcegraph.com
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The best alternative is probably just not-doing that - the reason for the page splits is the performance of the HN back-end and hitting the site for all the follow-on pages might make the problem worse, not better.
Fair point, thanks for mentioning. I'll make a toggle in mine then, as I want it on a select few pages, but not on others.
Would be nice if the Github repo had an explanation of what it actually is.
Fair enough, I was hoping this HN discussion was enough. I wanted my code to be a discussion piece, or a starting point to improve. I don't think it's that usable for many people.
> I wanted my code to be a discussion piece, or a starting point to improve.
Easy improvement: A readme.md It'd be much easier to grasp what it is trying to achieve if it actually were described.
Easy improvement: A readme.md It'd be much easier to grasp what it is trying to achieve if it actually were described.
Sounds like if enough people use this then they should just make it the default. Or give people a user setting.
The ‘More’ link is apparently required due to server load; dang has stated that he’d like to get rid of it as soon as he can fix the underlying performance problems: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
why not autoload it on scroll... like after you get past 75% or something? Many sites have never-ending scrollers, FB as an example and you'd think as big as YC is they could afford someone who can figure out endless scrolling.
Endless scrolling was specifically rejected [1], and given how vociferous the HN community can be about such things I don’t blame them.
Also, comments can shift from page to page as their ranking changes, so a naïve implementation would end up with duplicates (for comments that fell down past the page boundary before the next page loaded) and missing items (for comments that rose up), and a more sophisticated implementation probably wouldn’t be worth the effort for something they want to get rid of.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291
Also, comments can shift from page to page as their ranking changes, so a naïve implementation would end up with duplicates (for comments that fell down past the page boundary before the next page loaded) and missing items (for comments that rose up), and a more sophisticated implementation probably wouldn’t be worth the effort for something they want to get rid of.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291
For me, the use-case is pretty rare when I'd want it. But I do want it ;-)
I mostly want it when I simply want to CTRL + F the whole thread on certain keywords.
I'll create a toggle to minimize server load.
I mostly want it when I simply want to CTRL + F the whole thread on certain keywords.
I'll create a toggle to minimize server load.
And if there aren't any alternatives, then let's improve this together!