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49 pointsmheguevara35 comments

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/

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.

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

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...

I like that, too. Too bad it's only for Chrome.

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/...

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

I use the iOS app. I wish the developer would update it to support left edge slide for going back.

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!

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

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.

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.

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/

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

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

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/...

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

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

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

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.

Verdana is really easy to read though.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Also see http://hckrnews.com/

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

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