An iPhone interface for Hacker News

http://hn.buxfer.com/

by ashu • 18 years ago

45 17 18 years ago

hn.buxfer.com

ashu5• 18 years ago

Please let me know if you like it! I presume quite a few hackers out here are like me constantly checking hacker news on their iPhones while they are out. The pinching and zooming is great, but it gets tiring after a while; so I figured I should do something about it. Given that Buxfer already had a good iPhone interface, it did not take that much time to build it.

Of course, this is unofficial. Hopefully, PG won't have a problem with it since it does not create any additional requests for the HN server; just routes request through Buxfer.

mrtron• 18 years ago

I like it.

How do you build your web iPhone interfaces? A custom "framework" or leveraging an open source project?

Do you plan on building a Buxfer native app?

dcurtis• 18 years ago

I like it, but comment replying isn't working ("A network error occurred. Please refresh before continuing.").

The only thing I would suggest is that you make the hot spot on the comment smaller (only the top, maybe), because when I drag my finger, it keeps clicking the comments.

ashu5• 18 years ago

Just fixed that error. Replying should work now...

I will keep thinking about the reply "hot spot"...

lyime• 18 years ago

Thanks :) I was hoping someone would whip something up.

pibefision• 18 years ago

Also, would be great a better interfase for BlackBerries! :)

Alex3917• 18 years ago

I just tried this on my phone. It looks really really good. (Much better than you would expect if you just clicked on the link in Firefox.) Great job!

danw2• 18 years ago

Awesome, thank you. Has news.YC got an api yet or is this done by scrapping?

ashu5• 18 years ago

No API, just plain old lib-www-perl :)

danielha• 18 years ago

Ok, this seriously rocks. Thanks Ashwin!

I'd like to make an iPhone interface for Disqus in the near future. Any pointers to nice resources?

ashu5• 18 years ago

I used Joe Hewitt's excellent iUI library as the base, although hacked it quite extensively. Also, prototype.js is always a time saver.

The hardest part about the iPhone app, I felt, was just reducing clutter.

danw2• 18 years ago

Theres a series of articles on A List Apart: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/putyourcontentinmypocket

Also check out iui, which makes getting an iPhone site up and running real easy and fast.

phil• 18 years ago

Beautiful stuff, Ashwin!

KB• 18 years ago

Great idea Buxfer guys.

A simple version of this can also be done through mofuse, granted I think the Buxfer one looks better.

I was able to create a News.YC in about a minute.

Here's the link to the preview. http://gg20o9.mofuse.mobi/iphone/preview/

ashu5• 18 years ago

The buxfer version is actually much more functional as well. It allows you to reply as well as vote stories.

wallflower• 18 years ago

Thanks for taking the initiative - works very well on the iPhone. I'd ask you to do the recently added 'comments' stream but I'm afraid (ok, certain) that it would make me use the interface more (which is bad in a way - I have 8aweek on my computer(s) limiting access)

earle• 18 years ago

i think this needs to be extended quite a bit, but its a start.

An iPhone interface for Hacker News

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