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http://hnmobile.herokuapp.com/

by mheguevara • 12 years ago

49 35 12 years ago

hnmobile.herokuapp.com

hkmurakami• 12 years ago

I'm a fan of the design, but lack of comments is a deal breaker for me.

I currently use this site for hn mobile: http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/

mheguevara• 12 years ago

This is just the first prototype, product of 3 to 4 hours. If I have time, I plan to add anything on the original hacker news page that I can.

keehun2• 12 years ago

I've seen a lot of "redesigns" of HN, but that is by far my favorite of them all.

Slackwise• 12 years ago

I've been using the "Hacker News Enhancement Suite" [1], which isn't much of a suite as it is a more Reddit-like version of HN.

Namely, it has collapsible comments, inline replying, and a generally nicer but not over-designed layout.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

girvo2• 12 years ago

I use MiniHack, which is mind-blowingly good now that the update came through. Full comment posting on mobile and tablet, upvoting, flagging, everything.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news-yc/...

mitchell209• 12 years ago

MiniHack is easily my favorite iOS app now. The dark theme is beautiful and it has all the basic features you need.

001sky• 12 years ago

Agree, but the current version omits all numerical point data and the repeating #comments 30 times uses alot of pixel space. I'm wondering if there's not a hack or abstraction that might benefit the layout.

bignaj• 12 years ago

That website doesn't have the same thread ordering as the homepage on the real thing, or it seems to be delayed... if you pull up both in parallel you'll see it quite obviously...

cheeaun• 12 years ago

The stories are cached in both API-side and client-side for few minutes, so you'll see some discrepancies.

arcameron• 12 years ago

Also see http://hckrnews.com/

varkson• 12 years ago

Since Y Combinator has been redesigned, I hope they redesign HN and make it responsive and modern.

dictum• 12 years ago

Verdana is a bit dated (it still looks good, but it's very reminiscent of early 2000s web design, as it was one of the few fonts that looked good without antialiasing on a 640x480 or 800x600 display), but I'd like to ask this of whoever gets tasked with refreshing HN's typography in the future: stick with a humanist sans serif. Don't go with Helvetica or another geometric sans serif.

OutThisLife• 12 years ago

Verdana is really easy to read though.

Compare your comment as Verdana to Arial: http://d.pr/i/u0Ys

colinbartlett• 12 years ago

Honestly, I feel like they could satisfy 90% of mobile users with just a few lines of CSS to make it a bit more responsive. Having to zoom, pan, and squint on my iPhone is so frustrating.

Z3UX2• 12 years ago

I've tried many hn mobile redesigns and have settled with http://hn.premii.com and use it every single day!

wuliwong• 12 years ago

Did they make an iOS app as well? This looks just like my HN iOS app. Love it.

mgrouchy• 12 years ago

Yes, its very nice. I use this iOS app as well.

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

And its open source too! https://github.com/premii/hn

Z3UX2• 12 years ago

They have it on the App Store and Google Play, but you can just use it on any browser. I use it on my desktop regularly!

kudu• 12 years ago

Yeah, it's the nicest one I've seen by far. HackerWeb is a not-so-close second.

snori74• 12 years ago

Hmm, just says "Loading..." for me on my antique old setup (original Galaxy S, Opera) - and frankly the main site actually works fine. In fact none of these alternatives look better imho, and I like to see how many comments are already up before opening an article - something many of them leave out.

mercer• 12 years ago

That's the closest thing I found to using the Hacker News Enhancement Suite on my mobile and tablet.

In fact, I liked it so much that I wrote a little bookmarklet that changes hckrnews.com comment and article links to point to hn.premii.com.

Kiro• 12 years ago

These kind of HN redesigns pop up every other day. What makes this better than the rest?

tosinaf• 12 years ago

Also see TheNews (iOS) http://bit.ly/thenews-ios

it's for both hacker news & designer news. It also has support for viewing comments in addition to the clean design :)

*disclaimer, I built it lol

girvo2• 12 years ago

Not bad, needs some work, but not bad!

My favourite app is MiniHack. Lets you post comments on mobile, and has a really nice interface now that he's updated the UI. Well worth the money.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news-yc/...

shoq• 12 years ago

If you are a lurker: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435?m...

jpdlla• 12 years ago

A couple of months ago I built http://news.hdn.io/ after aggregating data from Hacker News and Designer News for The Hacker and Designer Newsletter.

skizm• 12 years ago

No comments? That's like 70% of the reason I come on HN.

ihackernews.com is another alternative for anyone still poking around for good mobile versions of HN.

XERQ• 12 years ago

I've been using a combination of Hacker Web [1] and TheNews [2].

Hacker Web IMO is perfect for browsing on mobile devices, whereas TheNews is great for desktop viewing.

[1] http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ [2] http://thenews.im/

hexleo• 12 years ago

When I click the hyperlink, I jump to another web site, although in desktop HN work will, for mobile devices is too bad. In my way, it propose a new mechanism to translate the other web page to adopt the mobile devices, do in app.

carbocation• 12 years ago

Note that it is probable that Hacker News / News.YC itself will in the relatively near future have a more "responsive" design: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/96

kripy• 12 years ago

http://ihackernews.com/ ... if only it had more button.

stewbrew• 12 years ago

A mobile version that works with javascript disabled. What a relief.

jamhed• 12 years ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ncom.yahn

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