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you can contribute back to this project. Will be on github https://github.com/valentinvieriu/visual-hacker-news …

it is responsive. IF it does not fit your screen try pressing [ ctr + - ]/[ mac + - ] one or two times. I don't want to rescale images, because on such long list have an impact on scrolling.…

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Thank you for the feedback. Noted down the feedback. I agree with you regarding the extra information. I will probably make it on hover. The title might be necessary, because it's not always visi…

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Glad you like it. Feel free to use it on a daily basis

Agree with this, the first version had no autorefresh. But this is quite annoying if you have this open in a tab. You get old news, and that kind of is against the purpose of the app.

Glad you liked it!

Hi, I'm the author of this project. The code will be available soon on github: at https://github.com/valentinvieriu/visual-hacker-news - right now that's the old versio…

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The thumbnails are generated using phantomjs server. I'm using https://github.com/blockai/phantom-pool to make sure the phantomjs instance is reused. Also I'm using a …

Interesting idea. I might look into expanding this. The whole idea with the big thumbnail was that you can quickly have a glimpse at the content before you click on the link. If you are on mobile or t…

@wanda Great list! I already know couple of those, but they have the same thing in common, it's just a list with a link. I've tried to offer the user a little bit mode insight into the page,…

That's funny. The firebase database I'm using it's the public Hacker News API. Should not have this limitation

I've put it on my list. Glad to see the amazing feedback. I'll make sure I will add more features in the near future.

Thank you for the feedback. It was a weekend project, and yes I'm using a yeoman generator for the angular project. I'm using KOA just as a thin web server and also as a proxy to cache the i…

This looks great! I like the Comment section. I might steal that idea

I agree, you should build your own. It's quite fun! I've shared the code on https://github.com/valentinvieriu/visual-hacker-news please feel free to fork it. It's …

Some technical details about this weekend project: -It is based on the firebase api( https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/ ) -Frontend is Angularjs -uses social login from firebase, so y…

I guess everybody has it's own clone. With Firebase opening up the dat, it's quite trivial to build your own Here is my version: https://hnews.xyz/#/ It grabs the previ…