Show HN: Hacker Smacker – spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
2 days ago
- #Hacker News
- #Open Source
- #Social Filtering
- Hacker Smacker helps identify quality authors and filter out obnoxious commenters on Hacker News.
- Users can friend or foe authors, and see friends/foes of their connections if they also use Hacker Smacker.
- Inspired by Slashdot's friend/foe system, it reduces time spent scanning comment threads by highlighting good content.
- Open-source and available on GitHub, with extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Mac App Store.
- Built to explore FoaF (Friend of a Friend) concepts and later applied to NewsBlur's social layer.
- Backend uses Redis sets and CoffeeScript/Node.js, focusing on quick relationship visualization.