Show HN: A different interface for reading Hacker News

http://moeffju.github.com/pyxis/pyxis.html

by moeffju • 15 years ago

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moeffju6• 15 years ago

This is something I hacked up in about two hours using the iHackerNews API, serve, haml, and jQuery. It was inspired by the view many apps use on tablets in widescreen mode - list of items on the left, expanded content on the right.

The UI is not polished at all, but I wanted to get this out to get feedback.

On my TODO list for Pyxis: - Better UI - Load more pages (currently only the first page of the frontpage is loaded) - Use the history API to make the UI state shareable.

The source is on https://github.com/moeffju/pyxis, so feel free to fork it and improve on it.

mooism22• 15 years ago

Doesn't work for me --- nothing loads in either pane, nothing happens when I click on either of the links at the top.

(I'm using Firefox 3.6.13.)

zrgiu• 15 years ago

same here, but works on Chrome. And it's even pretty nice, I like it. Maybe figure out some way to show comments side by side with the original page?

moeffju6• 15 years ago

If you want to see comments and link at once, http://hnvue.com/ was linked in this thread and does that.

kib2• 15 years ago

Same here: it's working with Chrome 11.0.672.2 dev , and the page allows nested frames like this: http://screencast.com/t/Tg32EOZXXA

moeffju6• 15 years ago

It works for me on Firefox 4 on OS X. I'll check with 3.6 as soon as I'm back home. Do you get any output in the javascript console / error console?

moeffju6• 15 years ago

Duh, I left a console.log statement in the JS and never notice because Chrome supports it out of the box, and my Firefox has Firebug installed.

I pushed a fixed version, can you try again in a few minutes (when the github page is regenerated)?

mooism22• 15 years ago

Yes, it works fine in Firefox now :-)

petewailes• 15 years ago

http://searchlightdigital.com/2011-02-21_1408.png it's just HN, all the way down...

johndbritton• 15 years ago

The line under each link "51 points, 27 comments" should be clickable and take you directly to the HN thread.

moeffju6• 15 years ago

That's a great idea, I put it on my j list. I hope to have time to hack on this tonight.

statictype• 15 years ago

Has potential.

1) Make the 'x comments' part a separate link that opens the comments tab.

2) try and put the domain linked to somewhere

Otherwise, I like this interface

Herald_MJ• 15 years ago

I prefer http://www.hnvue.com

moeffju6• 15 years ago

Interesting, I didn't know about that. I prefer the link/comments toggle instead of the side-by-side view because I like content panes to be as big as possible, but hnvue is very useful anyway.

thunk• 15 years ago

Briefly amuse yourself by clicking "Show HN: A different interface for reading Hacker News" in each nested frame.

phillco• 15 years ago

Briefly?

mbpr• 15 years ago

ha cool . . . pretty similar to something I crudely put together awhile back:

http://hackskimmer.heroku.com

it uses viewtext to make things 'readable', which unfortunately seems to be choking right now

I wanted to put something together to let me get through hackernews quickly when i didn't want to get caught up in the comments.

RiderOfGiraffes• 15 years ago

Doesn't work in Firefox 1.5.0.6. Not that I expect it would - nothing whizzy does. Mind you, that's part of the reason why I use it.

bkhl• 15 years ago

Pretty cool. Why not have another column for comments instead of making users to click? Maybe put this as an option for users to select, because I'm sure there are a lot of people who are using widescreen monitors and are not fully utilizing it. I'm suggesting this as an option, because there are other batch of people who uses vertical mode.

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