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The most useful HN addon is HN Replies by Dan Grossman. You get an email if someone replies to your comment. Simple UI and real value. http://www.hnreplies.com/
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Looking at HN repackages, that actually show me the visual snapshots of all the articles from the main page, I find myself consumed by nausea, seeing the cacophony of repellent ad-addled page layouts all together, all at once.
A comparable awful experience is letting the Slack app stream live updates into a dedicated channel with the RSS Slack app, totally uncurated, so that you can scroll back through a week's worth of article snippets. That little experiment proved to me how finicky I really am, compared to what so many others happen to find interesting, and how small any given individual's tendencies might be, when taken as a defined subset within a large community.
Everything else is so-so, in between.
[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/th/app/minihack-hacker-news-client/...
1 vote for HackerWeb for your phone. Wish the full HN had collapsible threads - a feature on Reddit I find very useful for traversing long threads without getting "sucked" into a "reply black hole"
They seem to have added this feature to the main site within the last couple months. It works for me on my iPad anyway, maybe give it another try.
I’ve been using MiniHack[1] for iPhone for a year or two; great way of interacting with HN (can vote, comment, etc). [1]: https://itunes.apple.com/th/app/minihack-hacker-news-client/...
My only gripe with the default site is that there is no way to quickly locate the most recent comments on an article.