Hey everyone,
I'm curious about how you all browse Hacker News. Do you use the website, mobile app, or a desktop client? If you use a desktop client, which one do you prefer and why?
How do you browse Hacker News?
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Re: How do you browse Hacker News?
#2Website.
Also, there's a way to make polls on HN:
Re: How do you browse Hacker News?
#3I faved the "new" URL and keep refreshing the site in one if the 50+ tabs on my mobile browser, whenever I feel bored.
No app, no client, no whatsever. That's one news site among lots others and not worth setting up a read-flow around.
if one's so into news, Bloomberg terminal 24k/y, msy be a proper client. But not for me.
Why the question?
Re: How do you browse Hacker News?
#4[flagged]
Re: How do you browse Hacker News?
#5I don't use any third party HN clients made by other people, for privacy reasons. All those clients are neat, but you don't know what they're doing in the background unless you start firing up debuggers. The HN site itself is enough and last time I checked there's no trackers and it even works with JS disabled. I use a mix of my phone and my desktop PC. (Phone for casual surfing of /newest and my desktop for commenting and submitting posts).
Re: How do you browse Hacker News?
#6Desktop: bookmark
Phone: URL shortcut icon on home screen
Both are fine. I can't imagine an app would provide much more value, especially with the privacy cost.
Re: How do you browse Hacker News?
#7Too much.
Sometimes.
Good luck.
(sent from my iPhone)
Re: How do you browse Hacker News?
#8I don't like how the home page at http://news.ycombinator.com/ sorts by a combination of score and time-since-posting because that means that I end up scanning each entry (story title) over and over.
In contrast, if they were sorted strictly by time-since-posting, I would probably quickly be able to tell once my scan of the list reached the part of the list I had already seen.
Someone else (many years ago) had the same thought as what I wrote above, motivating him to create http://hckrnews.com/, which is mainly what I use to find stories to read. (I also use https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%s&sort=byDate to find stories to read.)
Re: How do you browse Hacker News?
#9Materialistic Android App. Unfortunately it is not anymore in the Google Play Store. It's the best hackernews android app in my opinion. What android app do you use?
Re: How do you browse Hacker News?
#10I use a combination of the following:
Browser:
1) news.ycombinator.com 2) daemonology.net/hn-daily 3) hckrnews.com 4) hn.premii.com 5) hn.algolia.com
iOS:
HACK for Hacker News Reader
RSS:
hnrss.github.io