DanielTomlinson

I sadly did not go to a different school, my parents insisted that that school would give me the best education, so I had no choice but to stay.

My parents did try to sort things out, nothing happened though, so I stopped telling them about it.

Humbling to read - you did an awesome thing that day, but it's incredibly sad that it was ever necessary.

Hey! Writer here, I just thought it might be worth saying that I am indeed 17! :) I started programming aged around 7 or 8, and have won a couple of awards (Most recently a Google Code Award for ProjectHermes - a natural language analysing bullying detector for twitter), and spoken at a few events as well.

I'm incredibly surprised myself by the things I've done over the years, it's a pretty awesome world!

A lot of people aren't, and a lot goes unnoticed, this hopes to help those who otherwise would not speak out.

I was wondering what people thoughts were on the importance of university/schooling in general are on SE roles.

It's a personal preference thing, personally, I felt that News:YC was kinda bloated when all I really wanted it for was reading. My app was built to be nice and simple, with a core feature set, News:YC does have benefits for some people, like the ability to post, not everyone wants to though.

I built a custom one in NodeJS as the existing ones aren't reliable enough. This is hosted on heroku, so I can scale as required.

Hey Evadne, The text shrinking was actually requested by 20 different beta testers, even though I initially hated the idea, and am looking at ways of improving it.

The UIActionSheet should come from the bottom, it's a bug I need to fix (that randomly came about as I deployed)

I accept the point on comments, I'm currently redesigning them for the next version.

As for readability/social etc, it's a useful feature, so why not include it as a bonus?

HackerNews for iPhone is a new client for HackerNews, with readability integration, read-later services and social sharing. At 69p (99 cents), it's less than your morning coffee, and you deserve that right?