HN reader

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.

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...

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...

Underscores aren't legal in hostnames.

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!

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

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)

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

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/

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Reading HN is so fast with this.

nice, very nice!

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.