It would be very nice someone purchased a more rememberable url... hnmobile.info is available, for example. I guess that would do the trick. No need of a .com tld here.
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#22Was planning on doing something similar using YQL. Nice one.
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#23An icon for iPhone users would be nice...
EDIT: Oh, and thank you! It really seems to be better than iCombinator.
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#24An icon for iPhone users would be nice... EDIT: Oh, and thank you! It really seems to be better than iCombinator.
Do you know where to find a HN icon in ico format?
EDIT: Duh... HN itself has one. I'll use it.
EDIT: Ok, I added it. Thanks for reminding me about this.
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#25good readable on my iPhone, better than what I have seen so far, nice weekend project. I will keep using it for now. Thank you
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#26For some reason I can not zoom on that page on my Nexus One. Is that intentional, and how is it done? I can zoom on other web sites. I guess links could be bigger - I tend to zoom on web sites to hit the smaller links, and since it is not possible on your page, it might become an issue.
On the iPhone, and I think also on Android devices, you can prevent a page from being zoomed withe the following meta tag : But this tag isn't being used here, as far I can see.
(that tag is on the site)
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#27Works and looks great on my gphone.
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#28Could you easily add duckduckgo style infinite scrolling?
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#29http://www.icombinator.net/ I really wish there was a way to comment and vote from the interface, though.
I really like icombinator but I wanted to address some problems and add new features (View the article text, collapse/expand comments, and return to the previous position when using the browsers back button).
This is awesome! (iCombinator author here :) Looking forward to the new features coming to your app!
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#30How does this work?
For the home page, I request the HTML from HN, process it, and create a collection of elements that represent a HN news item: URL, Title, # of comments, ID, Posted By, Date, and so on. Then use that to generate the new HTML. I cache that for 200 seconds and store a copy in the event that I can't read the HTML from HN.
Works just about the same way for the comments , except it adds some additional functionality like collapsing comments. With the nature of comments being nested, a recursive function worked really well on rendering the output.
The article text functionality uses the algorithm from arc 90's readability project, which is in javascript. I used the main idea behind their readability algorithm for this, except mine runs server side (C#) where theirs is all done on the client.