Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist • Hacker News Board

This feels like a nice way to navigate websites, but at the same time looks way better than most of the keyboard driven interfaces (since the apps that are optimized for that are typically TUI)!

In my eyes, that just proves the feasibility of the input method, as opposed to having to click around - it can work for a variety of types of content!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by pabue » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

throwoutway wrote: post #77

Bookmarked. I hope you continue working on it! The biggest hurdle for me would be to remember to go here instead of news.ycombinator.com though

I will definitely continue working on this. It's great to hear that people actually enjoy using it.

I actually moved it to a separate domain, because I don"t think people will remember haxplore.pabue.co when they think about HN.

You can now find it here: https://haxplore.com

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by daveungerer » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:27 PM UTC

It simply shows a loading animation for me. It raises "Error: No available storage method found" on line 2718 of localforage.js. This is Firefox 92 on Ubuntu 24.04.3. It works in Chrome, but I don't use it as my main browser. Spent a minute on it just to see the vim-style navigation, pretty cool. Hope the bug report helps!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by croddin » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

Great site! On iPhone, if you are tapping a button on the bottom rapidly, (like if you just double tap the down button) it triggers the page to zoom in. It looks like there is an easy css fix for that. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46167604/ios-html-disabl...

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by itsbits » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:32 PM UTC

This is really really cool. I am gonna use it more.

Couple of suggestions thgh. 1) Blurring can be avoided. 3) jump to parent story of any level comment via keyboard 2) Is there possibility of logging in? so that we can do comment/upvote/downvote as well via keyboard.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by picardo » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:33 PM UTC

Nice work. Minor issue, but when I open the Menu with M, the focus should be in the dropdown menu, so I can navigate it with the arrow up and down. Otherwise, works great!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by dionian » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:49 PM UTC

pabue wrote: post #2

Haxplore is a little web app I created because I didn't like to click around the HN interface to read submission and discussions. I also wanted to experiment with different ways of implementing keyboard control in web apps and HN seemed like the perfect test subject. So maybe it's useful for some of you too. The most important features are: - Intuitive keyboard control - Link detection in comments with hotkeys to ope…

Cool UI. nice job

Re: Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist

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Post by pabue » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 2:51 PM UTC

andrewl-hn wrote: post #91

pabue wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is intentional. You have to use your arrow keys, WASD or HJKL to navigate.

However, it's impossible to read longer comments this way. This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28705415 in this very thread is too long to fit in my browser window, which is maximized on my 16" laptop. So far I'm just pressing O, but it still takes time. A scroll for long comments would be really welcomed. Other than that, it's a very cool UI! I can see using it full-time and press O only when I want to…

You can actually press spacebar to open a comment inside a modal where you can scroll.

Wow, thank you very much! :D