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Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by bensummers »

danh wrote: post #5
bensummers wrote: post #3

Could you do something like Readability on the article text? One of the most painful things about reading HN on the iPhone is waiting for the stuff around the article to load. Even having an option to only load images on demand would be a good start. http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

One way to achieve almost the same effect is through Google's mobile reformatting thingy: http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=news.ycombinator.com Fast, simple and ugly as hell...

That's wonderful, thanks!

Is there anything Google doesn't do?

Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by aarongough »

j_baker wrote: post #4

Another HN reader? The market seems a bit overcrowded for how many people there are browsing the site.

Well you have to admit that the readership does really like making things... Coding HN readers just combines 2 of their favorite things :-p

Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by jeremyw »

danh wrote: post #5
bensummers wrote: post #3

Could you do something like Readability on the article text? One of the most painful things about reading HN on the iPhone is waiting for the stuff around the article to load. Even having an option to only load images on demand would be a good start. http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

One way to achieve almost the same effect is through Google's mobile reformatting thingy: http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=news.ycombinator.com Fast, simple and ugly as hell...

Whoa, my eyes are bleeding, but surfing just got 10x faster.

Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by aristoxenus »

socmoth wrote: post #16

I use the one that is already in the app store, and has been for weeks. Made by someone in the YC community. Otherwise, looks nice.

grinich is actually a pretty well-regarded member of the HN community:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grinich

Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by messel »

grinich wrote: post #11
ironkeith wrote: post #7

I don't know about this; it doesn't appear to support authentication, or allow me to upvote/downvote (I get that it probably can't ). My only gripe with using HN in Mobile Safari is that sometimes when I go to upvote/downvote I press the wrong one (my thumb lacks precision). This doesn't solve that problem for me, so I can't really see myself spending $2 for increased padding.

Login, voting, and commenting was planned from the start and is coming within the next couple weeks. (ie: after my exams) Most of it is already built-out and just needs some polish. Here's what it looks like now: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4595/hn-vote.png

Looks great, I'll give it a look then! Smart move getting the early release and feedback.

Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by ludwig »

grinich wrote: post #11
ironkeith wrote: post #7

I don't know about this; it doesn't appear to support authentication, or allow me to upvote/downvote (I get that it probably can't ). My only gripe with using HN in Mobile Safari is that sometimes when I go to upvote/downvote I press the wrong one (my thumb lacks precision). This doesn't solve that problem for me, so I can't really see myself spending $2 for increased padding.

Login, voting, and commenting was planned from the start and is coming within the next couple weeks. (ie: after my exams) Most of it is already built-out and just needs some polish. Here's what it looks like now: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4595/hn-vote.png

Any chance you could implement a "Mail HN Link" similar to what Tweetie 2 does for "Mail Tweet"? That would make it really easy to forward HN links to a number of friends.

If you haven't seen that feature of Tweetie 2, it's awesome. It embeds the tweet itself, along with any relevant links, in an html email. Oh, and most importantly, sending the email doesn't require you to quit the app.

I suppose you'd be embedding the story title, description, a link to the HN thread, and of course, the link to the original story.

Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by wallflower »

grinich wrote: post #19
larrykubin wrote: post #14

Thanks, great job. I often load up the icombinator.net site when lying around the house, but it crashes frequently. One thing I do like about that site is the instapaper link that quickly lets me save a bunch of articles for later. It'd be a nice addition to your app. Are there other HN readers I should be aware of? Anything that makes it easy to browse comment threads on a small screen without a lot of zooming and p…

Support for Instapaper is something I'm hearing a lot. It's definitely on the list, and something I'd like myself.

Nice job. What are using to parse the source HTML?

I like how you got the initial version out there. No commenting, etc. but the start of a decent HN client. Comments are now easy to read (though I would round the borders just a little for a less sharp look)

On my scope creep list, I would like a landscape orientation with lock (might be private API though there is a news reader called News Feed Elite that does it). And a way to bookmark/"watch" certain comments.

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