Hacker News Mobile
Consumer and social
hacker news client
SHOW HN2011
209points
58comments
#32of 1,097 in 2011
Top 3%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 9 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Execution: 0 for, 7 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast and snappy performance
From 3 comments
Nice work. I work in mobile web and I applaud the simplicity and speed. That said, to really make it snappy, bind to 'touchstart' instead of 'click' --- or implement a 'tap'…
jbail on HNI like this better than both of the native apps I have tried for android. Not only is it a more intuitive UI for me it is also very snappy. Good work.
bobbywilson0 on HNAwesome UI! Was working great and then the API errors started in. This easily replaces all of the crappy Android apps for HN.
windexh8er on HN
Clean, intuitive mobile UI
From 2 comments
I like this better than both of the native apps I have tried for android. Not only is it a more intuitive UI for me it is also very snappy. Good work.
bobbywilson0 on HNMy skin for HackerNews http://harpb.com/Hack3rNews/
aDemoUzer on HN
Favicons help scanning the front page
From 1 comment
I love them! It helps with scanning the front page. Due to the location/fact that it is text/text colour I never look at the URL of an article when looking at the front page on…
Pheter on HN
Objections
Back button missing or broken
From 3 comments
It would be nice if I could go directly to the comments from the article text. Also, "back" doesn't seem to work on your site from my Blackberry.
rcfox on HNReally great. One piece of feedback: Clicking on text works great but you can't use the browser back button to get back to the overview. That means you have to reload the page…
xal on HNLovely. The only thing missing is a back button placed somewhere inside the page (so it can be used as a full screen app on iPhone).
bgarbiak on HN
Comments fail to load with API errors
From 3 comments
``` Rats! There has been an Error. This application depends on a number of external APIs, sometimes they don't always work. When this happens, your best bet is to reload. ```…
johnbatch on HNihackernews is great but I feel there is many bugs when it comes to comments. I use the Hacker News app for android created by Jazzy Chad which is great but the ihackernews api…
juxta on HNAwesome UI! Was working great and then the API errors started in. This easily replaces all of the crappy Android apps for HN.
windexh8er on HN
Text is too small
From 2 comments
Nice work. I work in mobile web and I applaud the simplicity and speed. That said, to really make it snappy, bind to 'touchstart' instead of 'click' --- or implement a 'tap'…
jbail on HNOn iPhone 4 all fonts are ok (please, don't size them down) except for the ones on sliding out, black panels - these are a bit too small.
bgarbiak on HN
Opera and Blackberry browsers do not work
From 3 comments
Works great in the stock Android browser, but it's stuck on "Loading" in Opera on Android. Then again . . Opera on Android seems to mess up every other site.
thoradam on HNI'm using the new webkit browser and the back button works fine for me, as does the rest of the site - great work! Opera mini doesn't work for me though, just stays stuck on…
Kique on HNIt would be nice if I could go directly to the comments from the article text. Also, "back" doesn't seem to work on your site from my Blackberry.
rcfox on HN
Requests
Add a back button
From 3 comments
I started on this Tuesday after work. Because of some great APIs that are available, it really came together quickly. Most of the credit goes to this one in particular:…
JoelSutherland on HNLovely. The only thing missing is a back button placed somewhere inside the page (so it can be used as a full screen app on iPhone).
bgarbiak on HNYes, works great on Mango. Like others mentioned, please do add the back button :) Personally, I would prefer if comments were directly a link. Not a big fan of the popup.
pcj on HN
Link comments directly instead of popup
From 2 comments
It would be nice if I could go directly to the comments from the article text. Also, "back" doesn't seem to work on your site from my Blackberry.
rcfox on HNYes, works great on Mango. Like others mentioned, please do add the back button :) Personally, I would prefer if comments were directly a link. Not a big fan of the popup.
pcj on HN
Support voting and logging in
From 2 comments
Looks impressive. Planning to support logging in and commenting/voting?
JoshTriplett on HNCan I vote on stories?
budu3 on HN
Infinite scroll instead of next page button
From 1 comment
... or drop it altogether and use some form of infinite scroll? There was a great solution to this at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
joshka on HN
Questions
Where is the node app hosted and is it expensive
From 1 comment
Where are you hosting your node app? Aren't most node hosting plans kind of expensive?
sktrdie on HN
How are favicons resolved
From 2 comments
How do you resolve favicons? Browsers are very resilient at finding favicons. Websites can use meta refreshes, variants on <link rel="..."> tags, domain.com/favicon.{ico,png},…
shurane on HNFWIW, you can use google's favicon "service". It isn't official, but as long as you don't hit it too hard, I doubt they mind terribly:…
mikeklaas on HN
How is the text version produced
From 1 comment
What are you using for the “Text” version? RSS or are you parsing the source HTML?
mwsherman on HN
Alternatives named
ihackernews.com
From 2 comments
Looks great, I'll try it out. I've been using iHackernews.com for awhile and to my knowledge pretty much every other hacker news app out there uses their api as well. They had a…
genieyclo on HNSorry I don't get it. Isn't http://ihackernews.com already the mobile version of HN? The site where you get the API.
jemeshsu on HN
Hacker News Android app by Jazzy Chad
From 1 comment
ihackernews is great but I feel there is many bugs when it comes to comments. I use the Hacker News app for android created by Jazzy Chad which is great but the ihackernews api…
juxta on HN
icombinator.net
From 1 comment
Your site is similar to http://www.icombinator.net/
cantbecool on HN
hackerstream.com
From 1 comment
No because they can't make cross-domain ajax calls. And they can't make requests on behalf of very many people on their server without hammering the HN server. Even if they were…
akkartik on HN