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by tholman 740 days ago
Here's the HN conversation from 2020 [1], a little closer to when this came out.

- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25507942

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Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Hotwire: HTML over the Wire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25507942 - Dec 2020 (545 comments)

Also related:

Why Hotwire Could be the Future of Front-end Dev - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26195969 - Feb 2021 (6 comments)

Hotwire: A new old way to build web apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25942864 - Jan 2021 (56 comments)

How does the macroexpansion actually work? Does it automatically grab the relevant links, or do you have to manually get them?
It's sort of in between. I wrote a browser extension (in Arc btw!) that has Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts that let me do things quickly. I look via HN search for related past submissions, open the relevant threads en masse in browser tabs, and build a list of IDs of the ones that are interesting. Then the browser extension sends the list of IDs to the server and gets back formatted text like you see in those lists ("title - link - mm yyyy (n comments)).

(This comes up a lot! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668525)