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An iPhone interface for Hacker News

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45 pointsashu17 comments

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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!

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/

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

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)

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

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

Beautiful stuff, Ashwin!

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

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

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

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