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I always thought that phones powerful enough to have apps are also powerful enough to have browsers.

How is this app better than just using a browser?

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See the comment I made above - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4815266

I don't even like HN on a computer browser. I use the Hacker News OnePage plugin on chrome.

I use http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/ which does the job for me.

Same here. It works perfectly.

Practically any alternative interface is going to be better than the default site. Great site, but it adheres to minimalist principles to a fault.

Browsing with a desktop browser is annoying, while browsing with a mobile browser is infuriating.

The iphone doesn't zoom like the android browser and makes hacker news more difficult to use in portrait mode. (Tiny text and tiny buttons)

The tiny text problem, at least, can be solved with a bookmarklet for increasing the font size. In fact, having such a thing around is almost essential when using mobile Safari, at least if you're over a certain age.

You don't find it a problem (read: annoying) that you need to run a bookmarklet on every single page load?

Yes, yes I do. It would be far better if mobile Safari had a configuration for a minimum font size.

And even better if people stopped writing stylesheets that created unreadable pages on small screens. It's not that hard to write CSS that makes your site readable on any size screen. A page with no CSS works fine. If your text gets too small on a phone, you've added CSS that breaks it.

Even with the default Android browser, or Chrome mobile, I have the same issues. I have to zoom 5x's just to click an up arrow (or many of the other links), and some of the text is just as bad.

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