HN has a great community and a lot of intelligent people with a wealth of knowledge that has truly not been tapped yet. There are times when I crave reading technical postings and learning beyond my current levels of understanding but HN does not always permit that unless I sift through the broad spectrum of links. Usethesource.com to me appears like a continuation of HN in a pure technical fashion but is yet to see any community form around it or more than 1-2 postings per day. It would be great if we could help it flourish.

I like this idea. Two questions/suggestions (not sure if they already work or not):

1. Can you make it so I can log in with OpenID/Facebook/something else that doesn't require me to sign up yet again. 2. Can you make this open source so we can collaboratively work on the algorithms behind it etc.

We should probably ask the creator himself whether he can do these things :)

I am merely a user who wishes to utilize the resource and hopefully with the help of HN get others to contribute to it.

FYI: The creator is jgrahamc.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc

I I likewise would like to request that if you do 1. you still offer a way to create an ID unique to this site. I don't and wont use OpenID.

Thanks for mentioning this site here. Hope people enjoy it.

1. I've added the bookmarklet

2. I've fixed the weird HTML in the page title on the About and Formatting pages.

If people have suggestions please make them on UTS as I am not monitoring HN very often these days.

Why is there HTML in the title on the "about" and "formatting" pages?

It's called "use the source" for a reason :P

/like but usethesource.com needs bookmarklet feature.

/yes, i could roll my own if the desire burned enough

/em just sayin'

  javascript:window.location="http://news.usethesource.com/submitlink?u=+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+&t=+encodeURIComponent(document.title)

or

  <a style="color: #777; font-size: 2em;" href="javascript:window.location="http://news.usethesource.com/submitlink?u=+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+&t=+encodeURIComponent(document.title)>post to news.UTS</a>

I used it to post lis.py with no problem: http://news.usethesource.com/item?id=728

Missing a double quote after '…u=' and both double quotes (or single quotes) missing to properly delineate '…&t=' for the document title inclusion.

Changed those two and it's working fine.

thank you!

Maybe have some sort of link on HN to these offshoots (similar to stackexchange)?

There have been a couple similar experiments trying to draw on HN's community, but fizzle b/c they drop off the radar to quickly.

Is there any Twitter/RSS feed for it?

Similar as http://twitter.com/#!/hackernewsbot ?

Is there a twitter handle so I can follow the articles published?

No