Hacker news reader for iPhone

#1

Post by arh » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 11:35 AM UTC

Hacker news reader for iPhone
itunes.apple.com

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

#2

Post by nirmal » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 11:46 AM UTC

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=809181 for a discussion about other HN on the iPhone solutions.

My version is at http://mobilehackernews.appspot.com/

It uses iUI for the list and if you click on a story link it uses arc90's Readability to make the site you visit easier to read. The Readability script also puts a button in the top left corner of the page to revert to the original version.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

#3

Post by mildweed » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 11:47 AM UTC

If I were to pay money for my HN, I'd want at least some of it to go to the actual HN team.

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

#4

Post by Torn » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 12:08 PM UTC

mildweed wrote: post #3

If I were to pay money for my HN, I'd want at least some of it to go to the actual HN team.

Yeah, £1.19 seems a bit too steep when I can instantly fire up Safari on my iPhone and view the full hn for free.

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

#5

Post by jasonlbaptiste » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 12:12 PM UTC

I think it's a bit high, but I bought it to give it a run. From the screenshots, it seemed decently full featured. The only thing I wish it had was AT least the upvote capabilities. I never really comment from the iphone, since I know ill limit my comments. Give me a few days of waiting on line with nothing to do and checking HN via my iPhone to give it a final verdict. .99 seems like a better price than 1.99

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

#6

Post by rbanffy » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 12:15 PM UTC

You know... Not everybody has iTunes on the computer... Or even a computer where iTunes is willing to run.

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

#7

Post by pclark » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 12:18 PM UTC

none of your screenshots actually show a story. does that mean it just shows the webkit view?

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

#8

Post by Oompa » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 12:20 PM UTC

http://www.icombinator.net/ works great for me, and costs nothing. Also has nifty instapaper functionality which I've grown to live on.

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

#9

Post by ique » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 12:21 PM UTC

nirmal wrote: post #2

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=809181 for a discussion about other HN on the iPhone solutions. My version is at http://mobilehackernews.appspot.com/ It uses iUI for the list and if you click on a story link it uses arc90's Readability to make the site you visit easier to read. The Readability script also puts a button in the top left corner of the page to revert to the original version. http://lab.arc90.com/…

That actually seemed awesome until i started getting this on pretty much every page:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 507, in __call__
    handler.get(*groups)

  File "/base/data/home/apps/mobilehackernews /1.336829969607358575/main.py", line 137, in get
    html.head.append(cssCode)

 AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'append'

Re: Hacker news reader for iPhone

#10

Post by peterbe » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 12:21 PM UTC

Installed!