I have started using it few months ago and I like it. Mostly because I can read hacker news as pragmatically as I have been reading google reader. I don't need to visit home of HN several times a day to find out if there is any new posts. I just open hckrnews.com and I see what have been posted since my last visit.
An unofficial alternative to the HN interface
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#12This is the only way I use hacker news.
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#13I was using it and it's great but the biggest annoyance is the fact that if I wanted to comment, I still had to go to the original HN... So I started using this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/helvetinews/jebgog... Now I just use regular HN with it.
I've been using the extension HN Special. I've tried a ton of interfaces, but this one is my favourite.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-special-an-addi...
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#14I still like http://hn.premii.com
Yeah. I like this one a lot as well. Use it on my phone, iPad and in browser.
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#15I was using it and it's great but the biggest annoyance is the fact that if I wanted to comment, I still had to go to the original HN... So I started using this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/helvetinews/jebgog... Now I just use regular HN with it.
Wow, just installed it, and Hacker News no longer makes my eyes bleed! Thanks for pointing it out.
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#16There have been many alt HN interfaces. I try them all, yet I never end up sticking with any of them. I feel like HN meets its needs pretty well and I like that they have resisted change (whether consciously or not)
I think the happy medium is one of the browser extensions. I'm using "Hacker New" for Chrome, and it adds basic nice things like default larger text, comment collapsing. Of course, I get used to it and become annoyed if I decide to visit the unmodified HN on my mobile device.
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#17I was using it and it's great but the biggest annoyance is the fact that if I wanted to comment, I still had to go to the original HN... So I started using this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/helvetinews/jebgog... Now I just use regular HN with it.
I've been using the extension HN Special. I've tried a ton of interfaces, but this one is my favourite. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-special-an-addi...
I use the HN Enhancement Suite. It adds some good functionality as well as making the interface pretty (but not overly web 6.0-y with thin-weight helvetica and white space everywhere.)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
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#18I still like http://hn.premii.com
Yes, this gets my vote hands down. hckrnews looks fine but hn.premii gets mobile right. I use it on my mobile and on my desktop all the time. Only downside is that you can't write comments.
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#19Since people are mentioning various other HN interfaces they use, I'd highly recommend to check out Georgify — https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...
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#20I used to use this interface, but then I noticed a bug (or interesting feature, depending on your point of view) in that when you were viewing the top 10 or top 20, and loaded more articles, some articles would disappear from the list.
My theory on this is that it was caused by loading articles a certain number of hours back from the current time, and then grouping by day before sorting to the top X.
For example, if the last 24 hours were loaded, and grouped into today and (part of) yesterday, you would get an accurate top X for today so far, and an accurate top X for the portion of the previous day it had fetched.
This was particularly noticeable when I hadn't visited for a few days (I've since rectified this aberrant behavior of mine) and loaded a few past days to review missed submissions. Seeing something that caught my eye disappear as it loaded older content drove me nuts.
It looks like the problem is fixed now, but it's hard to be sure, as it may be more or less likely depending on the time of the day you visit.
I sent a bug report to the developer when I noticed this (in February 2013), but never heard back. I'll happily go back to using this interface if it's fixed though, I found it generally more pleasant to use.