HN reader

http://hn_reader.joshhuckabee.com/

by mrsebastian • 15 years ago

98 31 15 years ago

hn_reader.joshhuckabee.com

rrand• 15 years ago

would be excellent if you added voting buttons in the title box as well!

intellection• 15 years ago

Lovely to access.

Comment icon feels a little minimized, is it better for power users?

Importantly, unlike official 'comments' links, it is always clickable in same place.

tensafefrogs• 15 years ago

Looks nice. I'd like to see the vote count for posts if possible (mostly because I like to see how old/popular a post is)

pbjorklund• 15 years ago

Very nice! Would love j and k keyboard movement and loading of more stories when you scroll near the end.

bigohms• 15 years ago

Very cool. Some sites, like the Google 10,000 house article are blocking pages rendered in frames. Perhaps there is a way to do DIVs?

tmcb• 15 years ago

It should be kind of fun selecting this very link there.

benatkin• 15 years ago

I started from the top, clicking every link, and hit this one. It's a frame-friendly site!

simonw• 15 years ago

Wow, it looks like a surprisingly large number of sites refuse to be framed. Shouldn't be too much of a surprise when you consider the threat of click-jacking, but interesting to see none-the-less.

mmahemoff2• 15 years ago

Yes, I've written my own HN reader as well as other apps using iframes...and basically the situation sucks.

With a reader like this, you have two real options: * Include regular iframes and risk an increasing number of sites opting out with JavaScript or (more politely) an X-Frame-Options header. * Use <iframe sandbox> to prevent people busting out of it with JavaScript. But that stops all JavaScript, so apps and videos won't show up.

Pity. iFrames have so many great uses like this Reader. Browsers really need to deal with the clickjacking problem instead of forcing everyone to bust out of them and making sites like this unusable.

username42• 15 years ago

Why not use separate windows?

chrisfarms• 15 years ago

Yeah that's a real show stopper ... otherwise I'd use this all day.

Guess standalone app is the only route to avoid this? I think even Chrome extensions couldn't get around this since they dropped the experimental sidebar thing :/

richardg2• 15 years ago

Nice and simple layout. Got a similar site too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2529573 It's here - http://ireadhn.g-webtech.com/

Did you use the same API? I have never had a chance to work on the comments but got inspired to work on it again.

Good work!

brohee• 15 years ago

Underscores aren't legal in hostnames.

mike-cardwell• 15 years ago

It doesn't handle gracefully, sites which prevent themselves from being opened in frames by utilising the "frame-ancestors" option of Content-Security-Policy.

mrsebastian2• 15 years ago

BTW, just to clarify -- this isn't my project. I noticed some clickthroughs from this URL on one of my sites, checked it out, then submitted to HN :)

Hopefully the actual developer sees this thread and jumps in...

jhuckabee• 15 years ago

Thanks mrsebastian for posting this and everyone else for the feedback.

I created this project several months ago as way to dive in and learn node.js. I found it useful and enjoyable to use for myself and decided to throw it on the web. For anyone interested, the code is available at https://github.com/jhuckabee/hn_reader. Pull requests welcome.

Unfortunately a lot of sites don't like to be framed which makes the interface annoying to use at times. Also, don't try to open it on a mobile device. It flat out doesn't work. I hope to fix that in a future version. Despite these annoyances, I still use it as my primary means of reading HN.

mrsebastian2• 15 years ago

There you are! Sorry about possibly jumping the gun :)

richardg2• 15 years ago

Will take a look. Thanks!

richardburton• 15 years ago

This is great. Personally I would love the rendering of the web-page to be in the Readability format.

This is a critical feature!!! ;P

skadamat• 15 years ago

I second this! Readability ftw

mmackh2• 15 years ago

I've gone a different Route, converting the story to a readable format first: http://thequeue.org/hn

mbel• 15 years ago

Combination of your `queue' and `hn reader' would be the best news site ever.

mmackh2• 15 years ago

I'm interested in a collaboration

Edit: You could use my API (http://thequeue.org/r?id=URL&title=Title)

laserDinosaur• 15 years ago

nice, very nice!

xutopia• 15 years ago

I found a bug! I can't click on the HN Reader story more than once and go in total recursion! :-D

Here is a screenshot https://img.skitch.com/20111223-dx69ix74wimn8twwmrqg1urm6j.p...

pohungc• 15 years ago

I'm not sure if that's really a bug, but I'm glad I'm not the first person to do that as soon as I saw it!

username42• 15 years ago

Reading HN is so fast with this.

geuis• 15 years ago

This totally fails on iOS (iPhone). The screen is not resizeable. The left column is fixed, and the right column is cut off.

thanithani• 15 years ago

Nice. I was working on one for a while too. The iFrame problem is definitely the biggest hinderance. Comments also need styling: http://hn.thanithani.com/

hobonumber1• 15 years ago

Would like to see URL changing as I click through so I can favourite - apart from that, it really works well!

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