evanrmurphy

Using your new feature to keep a list of the leaders: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662721

Top 10 pasted here for convenience:

1. tptacek - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=tptacek&limit=75

2. patio11 - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=patio11&limit=75

3. edw519 - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=edw519&limit=75

4. jacquesm - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=jacquesm&limit=75

5. fogus - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=fogus&limit=75

6. cwan - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=cwan&limit=75

7. jrockway - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=jrockway&limit=75

8. swombat - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=swombat&limit=75

9. vaksel - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=vaksel&limit=75

10. ssclafani - http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=ssclafani&limit=7...

Impressive turnaround! :)

This is also good for your site. You'll get more links now because people can link to the particular things they're interested in rather than just the homepage.

YMMV. I wish they made their other interface (i.e. in-browser editor) more accessible.

Even after 100 times, I found it counter-intuitive and irritating that clicking "New Post" on my site would launch my email client instead of their editor. The latter is buried somewhere in Settings.

If you're the type who will like to tinker with your site, WordPress is unmatched. Get hosting, install it and start exploring its incredible ecosystem of themes and plugins.

Nice job!

Feature request: Make the queries linkable. I think people would appreciate being able to have permalinks for themselves or HN leaders like tptacek, patio11 and jacquesm.

It would also be very interesting to see how the results for edw519 size up against his own curated comment list: http://edweissman.com/53640595

--

Update: Thanks to bitovod for implementing the feature. There's now an ongoing list of the HN leaders at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662721

Pretty sure he means the reboot, but I would enjoy seeing both. :)

Really cool concept. :)

Doesn't every sequence of numbers sound fairly tonal on the Les Paul logo though, since it's restricted to diatonic pitches?

Ah, thanks for exposing the keyboard interface!

You equipped me for this rendition of "Chopsticks": http://goo.gl/doodle/uAEhv

I made 9 takes trying to make the two parts sync as well as possible and to move at a good tempo. This is my best one.

It's still consuming my time.

I don't think I can get "Chopsticks" any more polished than this: http://goo.gl/doodle/uAEhv

Ah, you're right! Here's the first part http://goo.gl/doodle/tdXk2

"Rolling in the Deep", by Adele http://goo.gl/doodle/DCvZJ

Update: http://searchyc.com/ and http://af.searchyc.com/ are both back online for the moment.

Kartik is happy to contribute his crawler, but wonders if it wouldn't be easiest to reuse the HNSearch crawler (since both forums have the same structure). http://arclanguage.org/item?id=14774

Thank you, Andres. I put up a message about it on the Arc Forum as well: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=14772. Please email me at evanrmurphy@gmail.com if you need assistance.

That would be amazing! I think there have been at least a couple crawlers written for it. (One being SearchYC's.) I'll let you know when I find something more concrete.

Is there anything else that would help make the ThriftDB setup go more smoothly?

Should be faster for the developer and also good for HN's servers to not have so many independent apps scraping the forum.

What makes the monitor "hacker-optimized"?

It's interesting in general how Arc Forum lags behind Hacker News in features. Visiting there is a sort of time warp: in addition to there being no search bar or notifo, karma points are still visible on comments.

Edit: Added notifo point.

Thank you! I was wondering exactly the same thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620297

I agree, but where would you fit it in? I'm trying to figure that out as well.

Do you typically browse with JavaScript disabled? I would think that these days it would seriously change the browsing experience and many sites would be unusable. Just curious. :)

If this is successful, will you consider running a similar contest for Arc Forum? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620297

Edit: Fixed link to have correct URL. Sorry for the mistake.

This is a wonderful gain in functionality. Any chance pg and Octopart can implement search for pg's other forum? (Relevant HN thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620297 .)

Contents pasted here for convenience with clickable links:

--

It's a bittersweet situation as we rejoice pg adding a search bar to Hacker News [1] while mourning the sudden loss of SearchYC [2].

One service SearchYC provided that remains a need unfulfilled even with the new feature is search for Arc Forum, pg’s other news.arc forum [3]. This had been an extremely valuable resource to the Arc language community as SearchYC had been to the Hacker News community. It kept the old gem posts and comments which tend to get buried in the forum accessible to new readers.

How can we address the problem of lost search to Arc Forum and the other Hacker News sister forums in the wake of SearchYC’s shutdown?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619736

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605959

[3] http://arclanguage.org/forum

--

I think UseTheSource (yet another news.arc forum) had built-in search, but they're no longer operating either. From http://usethesource.com/ : "UseTheSource has been shutdown. It wasn't getting enough traffic to justify fighting the spammers." :(

SearchYC also provided excellent search for pg's Arc Forum, which is now gone: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620297

One downside of your suggested placement is it would push down page content about 20px. But I agree that the footer is sub-optimal.

Why? eof's comment was wonderfully open and honest, but jpk's response was true. In the description, it's not clear that the script even got written. Would you accept this result if you had hired a freelancer to write the script?

Could you recommend resources for learning more about Arduino? Is http://www.arduino.cc/ a good place to start?

Hmm... I just tried it, and backslashes don't seem to work as a way to escape Hacker News markup. Were you kidding?

Update: Ah, it looks like you can get literal asterisks if you use your whitespace carefully:

* asterisk * another one emphasis