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Show HN: Hacker News for mobile devices

49 points| mheguevara | 11 years ago |hnmobile.herokuapp.com | reply

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[+] hkmurakami|11 years ago|reply
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/

[+] keehun|11 years ago|reply
I've seen a lot of "redesigns" of HN, but that is by far my favorite of them all.
[+] 001sky|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] bignaj|11 years ago|reply
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...
[+] mheguevara|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] Z3UX|11 years ago|reply
I've tried many hn mobile redesigns and have settled with http://hn.premii.com and use it every single day!
[+] snori74|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] mercer|11 years ago|reply
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.

[+] wuliwong|11 years ago|reply
Did they make an iOS app as well? This looks just like my HN iOS app. Love it.
[+] kudu|11 years ago|reply
Yeah, it's the nicest one I've seen by far. HackerWeb is a not-so-close second.
[+] tosinaf|11 years ago|reply
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

[+] varkson|11 years ago|reply
Since Y Combinator has been redesigned, I hope they redesign HN and make it responsive and modern.
[+] dictum|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] colinbartlett|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] Kiro|11 years ago|reply
These kind of HN redesigns pop up every other day. What makes this better than the rest?
[+] hexleo|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] jpdlla|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] skizm|11 years ago|reply
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.

[+] stewbrew|11 years ago|reply
A mobile version that works with javascript disabled. What a relief.