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Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Post by Brajeshwar »

embedding-shape wrote: post #19
Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

No No. Don’t do that, don’t make it better and easy to use. I’m already addicted and spent more time than I should. Now, this app that I can keep it open all day! Btw, can you allow me to set the font-family, font-size, etc. for the interface? I can’t even do the default `CMD + +` to zoom in.

> I’m already addicted and spent more time than I should. noprocrast + maxvisit + minaway on https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Brajeshwar is your friend for this :) > In my profile, what is noprocrast? - It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on HN. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The de…

Done. Trying this one out.

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Post by thewebguyd »

luma wrote: post #49
taude wrote: post #36

Congrats and building and releasing something. I guess for reading things like this, I'm just a browser kind-of guy. But I still appreciate youre building a NATIVE app that's using around 85MB of working memory (according to my Activity Monotor), and not some Electron thing. I'm probably just a anti-app guy, but I tried it out. First thing I went to do was CMD-F to search for some strings in the comments section. Act…

I've never understood the concept of an app wrapper for a link aggregator (HN, reddit, etc). The whole goal is to provide links to external sources, and now I'm browsing the web in a limited web browser without all my extensions etc. Am I missing some core concept here? Why would I want to browse the web in this app as opposed to a web browser?

As someone who used to use native RSS readers a ton back in the day, the limited web browser usually isn't a problem for just reading a few articles.

I like native apps for things, even link aggregators, because my I want to use my OS's native window management and app management instead of just shoving everything into a browser tab, of which I already have too many. Because then it's just CMD+Tab to Chrome, and then figure out which of the 20+ tabs I'm trying to get to instead of CMD+Tab directly to that specific app.

Anyway, just a bit of old man yelling at cloud but I've always disliked the proliferation of "web app all the things." Might as well not even use a desktop OS at this point and just have a full screen browser window and call it a day.

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

#54

Post by luma »

thewebguyd wrote: post #53
luma wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never understood the concept of an app wrapper for a link aggregator (HN, reddit, etc). The whole goal is to provide links to external sources, and now I'm browsing the web in a limited web browser without all my extensions etc. Am I missing some core concept here? Why would I want to browse the web in this app as opposed to a web browser?

As someone who used to use native RSS readers a ton back in the day, the limited web browser usually isn't a problem for just reading a few articles. I like native apps for things, even link aggregators, because my I want to use my OS's native window management and app management instead of just shoving everything into a browser tab, of which I already have too many. Because then it's just CMD+Tab to Chrome, and then…

I'm trying to understand your position here. An app with it's own way to manage multiple browser windows is better, because you have too many tabs open in your browser. If you have multiple links open, the tab management is now a problem in your desktop app instead of the browser. If you don't, then you don't have to manage tabs anyway. What does this solve that a separate browser window doesn't, except not having any way to add extensions like ad blockers or tampermonkey scripts etc?

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Post by thewebguyd »

luma wrote: post #54
thewebguyd wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who used to use native RSS readers a ton back in the day, the limited web browser usually isn't a problem for just reading a few articles. I like native apps for things, even link aggregators, because my I want to use my OS's native window management and app management instead of just shoving everything into a browser tab, of which I already have too many. Because then it's just CMD+Tab to Chrome, and then…

I'm trying to understand your position here. An app with it's own way to manage multiple browser windows is better, because you have too many tabs open in your browser. If you have multiple links open, the tab management is now a problem in your desktop app instead of the browser. If you don't, then you don't have to manage tabs anyway. What does this solve that a separate browser window doesn't, except not having an…

I usually don't have multiple HN articles open at a time, but I can see how that would just be replacing one problem (too many browser tabs) for a worse problem (too many, now limited, browser tabs).

It's just nice to have HN as it's own app instead of just another tab in a single app. Same reason I use mail.app vs. webmail, native music app vs the web player, etc.

PWAs also solve the problem, more or less, but it is nice to have something native.

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Post by kridsdale1 »

Aperocky wrote: post #52

Tangential piggy back: If you prefer CLI, here's a free and open source HN browser in terminal: https://github.com/Aperocky/hnterminal Install: `pipx install hnterminal`

I enjoy this one as it helps keep me mostly on task while goofing off.
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