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I always assumed that someone had lost the source for the iOS app and that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing.
It's the plainest of websites. I've been using it on android and iPhone for years without ever thinking "oh boy this would be better with an installable update able app asking me permissions and doing who knows what on my device". I assume any apps out there would be 3rd party scrapers...
Hacker news was originally written by Paul Graham in Arc. Arc is a Lisp-inspired programming language also written/invented by PG at the same time and Hacker News programmed in it to (also) prove it works. Arc did not catch on outside of Hacker News. Arc is free and open source. Regarding Hacker News, itself: "Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN? (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006037 PG's response is:…
I always assumed that someone had lost the source for the iOS app and that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing.
There is no official HN app, for any OS. People have made multiple unofficial ones, using the API, though.
I always assumed that someone had lost the source for the iOS app and that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing.
I've been using HN for 10+ years but I don't think I've ever found anything that was broken. What are you referring to exactly?
I always assumed that someone had lost the source for the iOS app and that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing.
There's an app? Why?? It's the plainest of websites. I've been using it on android and iPhone for years without ever thinking "oh boy this would be better with an installable update able app asking me permissions and doing who knows what on my device". I assume any apps out there would be 3rd party scrapers...
I always assumed that someone had lost the source for the iOS app and that’s why we’re stuck with the broken thing.
There's an app? Why?? It's the plainest of websites. I've been using it on android and iPhone for years without ever thinking "oh boy this would be better with an installable update able app asking me permissions and doing who knows what on my device". I assume any apps out there would be 3rd party scrapers...
The interface paradigm of mobile devices is built around apps, mobile browsers are a pain in the butt - deliberately, most likely.
Hacker news was originally written by Paul Graham in Arc. Arc is a Lisp-inspired programming language also written/invented by PG at the same time and Hacker News programmed in it to (also) prove it works. Arc did not catch on outside of Hacker News. Arc is free and open source. Regarding Hacker News, itself: "Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN? (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006037 PG's response is:…
>The reason HN lacks x cool feature is not that I expend no energy on the site, but that I expend all my energy on what users actually care about, which is not features but the content. said pg, on a forum in which users constantly complain about missing features...
An old version is available here: http://arclanguage.org/install I assume the current version is still written in Arc (Paul Graham created the language) but differs from that version.
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>The reason HN lacks x cool feature is not that I expend no energy on the site, but that I expend all my energy on what users actually care about, which is not features but the content. said pg, on a forum in which users constantly complain about missing features...
really? like what? I like hn precisely because of its minimalistic approach.