If anyone uses Calibre, here is a Calibre HN recipe I have made. It looks pretty good on Kindle Paperwhite, but I have not tested it anywhere else:
https://github.com/brendoncrawford-org/calibre_recipes/blob/...
Other ways to read Hacker News
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Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#172The 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/
do you really need notifications that badly? whats wrong with clicking "threads" (4th link on the top of page) once per day.
Because if an active debate is going on in response to my comment, I'd like to be able to participate. But, I'm not so self-centered as to assume that is likely, so I don't normally check.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#173These things come and go, the annoying part is verifying they are still maintained. I recently collected this list along with the best discussion, typically from their launch: http://hackernewsgrid.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078605 (2017) https://www.taggernews.com | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337275 (2017) https://vue-hn.now.sh & https://hnews.xyz | https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hnews.x…
I've been using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic For my day to day browsing. It has a pretty fully fledged feature set, including saving stories for later, and some neat aggregates (top last 24 hours is labelled "catch up" or something similar).
It also looks fantastic when using the solarized theme
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#174For me the native version is stunningly good. Both on desktop and mobile devices. It loads tremendously fast, has the correct font types and no smuck. The only sidestep I sometimes make is to Boreal[1][2] as a native ios app. It has a more convenient way if reading the comments. Double tap a comment to collapse instead of hit the little minus sign. Especially as I read with only my left hand and minus sign is on the…
It loads fast and doesn't use web fonts, but that's not really a high bar, for essentially a forum. Apart from that it's not exactly a pleasant reading experience. Tiny text for modern displays. Poor typography (bad line-height of content, needlessly cramped padding in listing). Ugly beige background colour, randomly constrained to a container, (why not be all-white or all-beige). Poor click targets for smaller displ…
I disagree all of your criticisms. Apart from the last one, they are all subjective and I disagree without a reason. I like what I see. Wrt sizes of the click targets, HN, unlike many products of elegant (!) design, let's you zoom in an out, so that is not a problem.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
do you really need notifications that badly? whats wrong with clicking "threads" (4th link on the top of page) once per day.
Because if an active debate is going on in response to my comment, I'd like to be able to participate. But, I'm not so self-centered as to assume that is likely, so I don't normally check.
and at the same time you are ready to receive live updates while eating dinner/taking nr2/attending funeral. You are conceding control over your time(life) to some third party.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because if an active debate is going on in response to my comment, I'd like to be able to participate. But, I'm not so self-centered as to assume that is likely, so I don't normally check.
and at the same time you are ready to receive live updates while eating dinner/taking nr2/attending funeral. You are conceding control over your time(life) to some third party.
It’s an email. I get to choose when to read it and whether to click the link and respond!
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#177my small lame userscript (usable with tampermonkey) to color new stories/comments and keep track of new unread comments in articles I was interested in. Lets me skim /news quicker removing annoying "I already read that one" mental load.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
and at the same time you are ready to receive live updates while eating dinner/taking nr2/attending funeral. You are conceding control over your time(life) to some third party.
It’s an email. I get to choose when to read it and whether to click the link and respond!
Iv got a feeling most people will use it with push notification to 'stay connected', brrrr
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
I honestly can't think of any.
Thread collapse on the right, increase text size (seriously why is it so tiny?), remove pointless numbers on the left side of homepage, remove BS sponsored YC job postings, take better advantage of horizontal real estate on desktop, make everything easier to click on mobile (I have to zoom to hit stuff all the time). This site is fine, and I use the regular version on desktop and mobile, but let's not deceive ourselv…
You know you can increase and decrease views in modern browsers right? On chrome for mac, use command minus for decrease and command equals for increase. I run my browsers at 110%
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#180I had no idea there were people that needed to view HN differently - let alone 21+ ways. I find the "native" presentation basically perfect for both desktop and mobile browsing.
This is one of the few sites I frequent where I don't wish they would improve the interface. I've been dreading the day HN gets the "Web 2.0" makeover and turns into yet another information sparse automatic scrolling back button hating javascript nightmare. Seriously, for the main interface it is pretty much perfect. Like Slashdot before they fucked it up. Or Ars before they fucked it up.
> I've been dreading the day HN gets the "Web 2.0" makeover and turns into yet another information sparse automatic scrolling back button hating javascript nightmare
speaking of reddit's new redesign...
> Like Slashdot before they fucked it up. Or Ars before they fucked it up.
Man, it's almost hilarious