Comment by latchkey
12 hours ago
I've had these same opinions for years. It is an under appreciated social network of some of the top minds and quality comments.
I've been collecting a long list of ideas on what you're describing. Thanks to AI encouraging me to really dive in and use it, I've been quietly working on something for what you're describing.
First step is to improve the HN UX a tiny bit and flesh out a framework for how to code it. Next will add some interesting social features I've been brewing on. Why can't I easily follow someone?
Open source. GPLv3. It isn't perfect, but this is not AI vibe slop, and there are lots of tests from day one. I want to make this sustainable over a long period of time and become genuinely useful to a community that I've gotten a lot out of.
Note, the chrome store is really slow at getting releases out (or I'm too fast), best to install from github releases. It is also buggy and I'm fixing and improving things as fast as I can.
Inline reply is great (wrote my own extension pre-for that, even!), but what's wrong with the built in favorites feature?
It is the builtin favorites. AI generated some bad text... I've already updated it locally but haven't pushed yet.
I'm starting with a basis of existing features (fully re-implemented) from dead extensions and will build my own tweaks from that.