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Hacker News, for iPhone and iPod Touch
- seanl 16y agoIs anyone using this? Is it any good?
- sh1mmer 16y agoIt's ok. I wish he would do some updates though. There are some annoying bugs and I haven't ever seen this updated.
- grinich 16y agohey. I'd love to hear about these bugs! you can either post them in this thread or email me at grinich@mit.edu. feature requests are also very welcome.
- halostatue 16y agoTwo feature requests: 1. Let me pull down the reply field to see the comment I'm replying to. Having to reply blind is frustrating. 2. Figure out how to make it so that I can select text from comments. Instapaper support would be nice, but not immediately necessary for me.
- seanl 16y agoSo on the balance of comments here I decided to give it a whirl. Posting this from the app, looks pretty good so far.
- rufo 16y agoOverall, I quite like it (better than iCombinator and trying to use HN directly). Only two problems I have: 1) It seems to crash on threads with too many comments... I'm guessing it runs out of RAM, perhaps? 2) I can't log in with my OpenID.
- grinich 16y agoIf you can let me know what threads it crashes on, that would be really helpful. I have suspicions that it's actually an issue with the parser, not memory.
- halostatue 16y agoI've had it crash on the more "popular" iPad threads recently, where there've been ~193 comments. I'm not sure how much you'd be able to do with this given how HN sends the data.
- grinich 16y agoOk. I'll check it out. Thanks.
- rufo 16y agoIt's seemed like it's anything with over ~100-120 comments, but I'll drop you a line the next time I encounter one.
- bensummers 16y agoDoesn't Readability still require the whole thing to be downloaded, which takes ages? Wouldn't it be better to have an option to use the Google reformatter? http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http://news.ycombinator.com/
- grinich 16y agoYeah, it has to download the entire page. Readability just does a script injection and reformats the page. My only problem is text size. The google reformatter does strip out a lot of the cruft, but I can't say that it's easier to read, which was my goal. Example, A NYTimes story: http://cl.ly/bC6 http://cl.ly/bC6
- halostatue 16y agoMaybe the two pieces can be combined?
- idan 16y agoFinally.
- pierrefar 16y agoI built a very thumb friendly HN interface: http://mhm.gd/hn/ http://mhm.gd/hn/ It takes the HN RSS and formats it with big links and text, all loading very quickly. I use it on my Android all the time.
- pstinnett 16y agoI use this as my default way to browse HN from my phone. Typically I don't vote much while on my mobile, so sometimes I'm not logged in through the app. I think it works well. My biggest request would be Instapaper support.
- sprsquish 16y agoPlease please please add Instapaper support for this.
- jwr 16y agoUntil there is Instapaper support, I think I'll keep using http://icombinator.net/ http://icombinator.net/ in Safari, which lets me add articles to Instapaper. I'll be watching this app, though, as it does look nice.
- commieneko 16y agoYeah, Instapaper support would push me over the edge on this.
- barlo 16y agoI've been using it on and off for the last week or so. It has a nice interface and works pretty well overall. I do wish it had the ability to copy and paste the URL of the articles or allow you to open the links in a browser other than Safari, such as Atomic Web (which can be called using the atomic:// protocol). And actually on that note, if you haven't tried Atomic Web, I highly recommend it.
- nickpp 16y agoI would buy this Right Now... if only it was also for my iPad...
- grinich 16y agocoming soon ;)
- commieneko 16y agoSo if I buy it now will for my iPod, will I have to buy it again for my iPad?
- grinich 16y agonope, it will be a free update.
- commieneko 16y agoJust bought it and am posting this with it. Seems to work...
- grinich 16y agothanks! let me know how it goes.
- wallflower 16y agoAssuming a nice OCD friendly interface where you can read the article and the comments at the same time?
- latortuga 16y agoJust a note for you, on your website, when you click the screenshots they show up underneath the demo video that's playing - this is on Win7 Google Chrome.
- grinich 16y agothanks. can you send me a screenshot?
- pkaler 16y agoWhat did you use to capture the video?
- grinich 16y agoI used Snapz Pro X for the screen capture. Here's a great blog post about creating iPhone screencasts by Loren Brichter, who made Tweetie (recently acquired by Twitter). http://blog.atebits.com/2009/03/not-your-average-iphone-screencast/ http://blog.atebits.com/2009/03/not-your-average-iphone-scre...
- fortes 16y agoDid you use SimFinger?
- jrockway 16y agoGlad to know that people are selling my posts for $3 in the app store. Time to write something offensive so the app gets banned.
- lonestar 16y agoIf Opera started charging $3 for Opera Mini in the App Store, would you be upset? You're paying for a nicer interface to something that is free, not the content of HN.
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- danfitch 16y agoSo just a question is this legal? Taking something that is free and charging for it on the app store. Just a question, because I like it and want to use something like this on my android(going to try http://mhm.gd/hn http://mhm.gd/hn)
- mufumbo 16y agoi like this. there's a really simple free version for the android platform and i would collaborate to improve it if it was a opensource project. Including readability to it is very important.