Years ago I took a stab at writing my own reader with the goal of looking at the top HN stories over the past 24 hours since I'm not one that checks HN every few minutes. Pretty limited use but surprisingly still works: https://yahnr.dangoldin.com/
Other ways to read Hacker News
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Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#62The most important feature of http://hn.premii.com isn't in the list:
* it caches a text (some pictures but no styles/css) version of the article on their servers, with saves hundreds of MBs per month from my mobile traffic quota
I prefer their iOS app, because it works even a bit better as a native app.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't that require you to give a random site your login to post on your behalf?
It would. Whether you should is another thing entirely. I'm asking why noone seems to even offer the option?
MiniHack on iOS let's you post and vote if you login through the app.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#64I made and use a userstyle theme: https://userstyles.org/styles/71445/better-hacker-news-desig.... Not a big rework, just a bit brighter and bigger and more readable.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#65I always access HN by hckrnews.com . It's much easier to look at the top posts for the day. And since it also has the top posts from previous days, I don't feel the need to check the front page as often.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#66just use https://news.ycombinator.com - works great on mobile too
It's a very clean and easy to read site. The navigation is logical and visible and the text is easy to read. I'm very happy that is hasn't followed the current horrendous trend of large text, infinite scrolling, and no logical structure. I really dislike the current trend and find it a big leap backwards in usability.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#67The most important feature of http://hn.premii.com isn't in the list: * it caches a text (some pictures but no styles/css) version of the article on their servers, with saves hundreds of MBs per month from my mobile traffic quota I prefer their iOS app, because it works even a bit better as a native app.
This is the one I'm using on mobile. Yes the caching version acts a bit like read mode in Firefox, sometimes it fails though.
Also you can't comment with it, which is both frustrating and somehow ... useful.
The real problem to using a third party site is that it defeats the noprocrast setting ;)
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#68The most useful HN addon is HN Replies by Dan Grossman. You get an email if someone replies to your comment. Simple UI and real value. http://www.hnreplies.com/
Thanks! That's useful.
Long time ago, there was a similar service that used push notifications (via now-dead Notifo; they also had emails https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1720763 but, personally, I felt that pushes were nicer).
I wonder if there's anything that uses Web Push notifications...
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#69I wrote a very basic script to rank hacker news stories based on comment/score ratio, found it to be pretty interesting:
https://github.com/paradite/hn-ratio
The idea is that stories with high ratio would mean active/intense debate, whereas low ratio means extremely insightful post. Both categories are very interesting to me.
Example output:
https://github.com/paradite/hn-ratio/blob/master/results/201...
Sadly I never completed the project with a web UI.
Re: Other ways to read Hacker News
#70What I would like to see is a sort of /r/DepthHub - a set of permalinks to interesting (thoughtful or factual or those that you can learn something from) discussions in flamewarred articles or the comments by subject matter experts 3 replies deep that can't bubble up to the top of comments section.
EDIT: hmm so I've created it: https://www.reddit.com/r/HNDepthHub/ Submissions welcome!