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wvl | 1 year ago | on: Is anyone interested in a better Hacker News?

2 days late, but creator here -- this is as designed.

Every entry on hckrnews has hit the homepage, so 'all' is exactly that. The current homepage filter is simply a filter to show what is presently on the homepage of news.ycombinator.com.

But this is not the first time someone has been confused about the homepage filter, so I could probably explain that better somehow.

wvl | 5 years ago | on: Oura Ring 2 Teardown

This matches my experience having received one Nov 2018 (and returning it a few weeks later). It was constantly getting my actual sleep times wrong, more often than not marking me as being asleep while watching tv in the evening.

After contacting support, their solution was an upcoming update to their app where I'd be able to edit the data so that I could override the app whenever I knew it was wrong. Which completely invalidates the primary reason to own this product. I mean, if I knew when I was asleep, why would I need a ring to track it?!

So given that it couldn't properly track sleep, doesn't track activity (by design), the only other purpose in my mind was to track HRV. And count me as skeptical of the accuracy of that data as well.

wvl | 6 years ago | on: The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat aren't healthier

"Water, Pea Protein Isolate*, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, Rice Protein, Natural Flavors, Cocoa Butter, Mung Bean Protein, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Apple Extract, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Vinegar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sunflower Lecithin, Pomegranate Fruit Powder, Beet Juice Extract (for color)" vs "Beef" is a minuscule difference?

wvl | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you get your daily HN brief?

That's what is intended -- it shows the items currently on the frontpage. So it will not show entry from the previous days because they are no longer on the frontpage. (The UI should not show the previous days in this case, and maybe there is something more I could be doing to make more obvious what is supposed to be happening).

Curiously the entries from April 6 that do show up is a bug due to an issue I had with the process going down for a number of hours, leaving those two entries not being properly updated to remove the 'homepage' flag.

wvl | 8 years ago | on: It's time to head back to RSS?

I had the same issue with Feedly's "features". I've maintained a stylish extension for Feedly that I keep adding to. Every time they add something that I don't want to see, I hide it via css. Thanks for the prompt, I just hid the patronising "Well done" that's been annoying me.

If anyone else wants to try to strip feedly back, they can try my css here: https://gist.github.com/wvl/4cd7d7d314fe9a544f2851296db61bb9

wvl | 8 years ago | on: Hcrknews.com (Flagged / Censored content can be seen)

I find the chronological history of hckrnews.com adds context to why many things get flagged. For example, immediately after the bloomberg article was posted about Google firing the memo author, were several other articles with the same content (from arstechnica and nymag) which were immediately flagged. Any time an inflammatory subject gets beat to death, the same process happens.

So in that respect, I often agree with the submissions that get flagged (including this one), but I do think news.ycombinator.com could do a better job of collecting and displaying these flagged submissions. For example, duplicate submissions could be made children of the submission that was allowed to stay.

wvl | 8 years ago | on: Hcrknews.com (Flagged / Censored content can be seen)

As an aside, I do find it interesting that this submission is nowhere to be found from the main page itself (or at least 5 pages back, despite 50 points and 17 comments. I guess it was flagged/vouched back, but having showdead on in your hacker news profile does nothing to help if the algorithm drops the submission into nowhereland.

That is reason enough for the existence of hckrnews.com, imo.

wvl | 11 years ago | on: A system that pours a glass of wine without opening the bottle

The Sweethome likes it, but it's expensive:

> "We tested the $300 Coravin system against Private Preserve, comparing bottles of wine that’d been saved for five days against a fresh bottle. While the Coravin-preserved bottle tasted more like the brand-new one, its price makes it impractical for many wine drinkers; it’s better suited for restaurant use, or serious oenophiles. For everyone else, Private Preserve is still the way to go."

http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-way-to-keep-open-wine-f...

wvl | 11 years ago | on: Hush – The World's First Smart Earplugs

I'm intrigued by this product, however as someone who can sleep comfortably with earplugs, but find in-ear headphones to become uncomfortable after a couple hours, I'm not convinced.

I always thought the ideal product would be a comfortable, soft armband (think sport sweatband) with bluetooth and a vibration motor. This could be paired to the phone with an app similar to these earplugs, and then used with (or without) regular earplugs for noise dampening. Does such a product exist? Perhaps the Hush folks would consider making it as product number 2?

wvl | 11 years ago | on: Hacker News API

Please consider opening up the issue tracker. Other people might benefit from seeing these issues, such as the issue about the comment count that I just raised as a comment here.

wvl | 11 years ago | on: Hacker News API

Would it be possible to cache the number of comments a story has? Or am I wrong in my understanding that the only way to find the number of comments a story has is to walk the tree of child items and maintain my own count?

wvl | 12 years ago | on: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

Sorry if I never got back to you about this.

There were definitely some bugs around the filtering / content loading. I _think_ they've been resolved for a while now, so I hope you'll give it another shot.

wvl | 12 years ago | on: An unofficial alternative to the HN interface

You can try /about again. Server was having problems there with the load.

FYI top 10 / top 20 / top 50% should be the "Top N" stories by number of points for each day according to your timezone.

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