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Hacker News Offline Reader for the iPhone / iPod touch
- eob 17y agoWould you mind sharing the strategy you took to storing the sites offline? I assume you grepped through the HTML source for external references (stylesheet, image, etc), downloaded each one of those, and then re-wrote the link before saving to disk?
- crc5002 17y agoI think there are several tools and libraries available for this job. E.g.: wget --mirror -p --convert-links http://www.example.com
- toni 17y agoThat will mirror the whole site. If you are going to mirror a single page, a more sane command would be: wget -r -l 1 -Ppath/to/folder --convert-links http://www.example.com/
- grinich 17y agoThree20 has a killer HTTP disk cache. http://github.com/facebook/three20 http://github.com/facebook/three20
- bensummers 17y agoI think this is the third HN app so far. Is this because people who read this site and want to try writing an iPhone app immediately think about writing an HN reader? I know I did. :-) We need a comparative review of all the HN iPhone readers!
- CoachRufus87 17y agohow often are people's iphones offline?
- pchristensen 17y agoTheir iPod touches often are.
- ekanes 17y agoa) This lets you batch your downloads, so you get it all done, and later reading is more pleasurable. b) If you want something to read on the plane, you could load it all up at the gate and then enjoy it later. Looks great - just bought it. :)
- ekanes 17y agoa) This lets you batch your downloads, so you get it all done, and later reading is more pleasurable. b) If you want something to read on the plane, you could load it all up at the gate and then enjoy it later. Looks great - just bought it. :)
- adriand 17y agoPlease let me know what you think of it. I may buy it as well. I just have a touch.
- tomjen2 17y agoMy touch is often, and it also runs apps from the app store. I won't be installing this tool though, since almost all the interesting pages on the web are split between multiple pages. In addition, it misses the discussions, which are the best feature of HN
- showerst 17y agoI live in DC and ride the metro, most of which lacks AT&T service (for now). The NYT app is a life saver for this, I just download the morning's news on my way into the station, and then can read it on my commute.
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- zen53 17y agoI can't leave instapaper
- poutine 17y agoI like the flash presentation on the site, I'm doing an iPhone app right now and am wondering what's the best way to put together a similar flash video of a screen capture of a iPhone app along with the touch indicator? Anyone have any suggestions?
- ljansen 17y agoWe used ScreenFlow for the screen cast along with SimFinger for the touch indicator. For site integration we used flowplayer.
- huhtenberg 17y agoBased on the Flash presentation alone - well done. I wish however that this was HN's native web interface for the iPhone. I personally have no need for an offline reading nor do I want to use a separate app for that.
- aaronbrethorst 17y agoCan I just have Instapaper support in an HN app? Please...Pretty please.
- booticon 17y agoHow about this? http://www.icombinator.net/ http://www.icombinator.net/
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- aaronbrethorst 17y agono account support (login, replies, etc.); hit targets for important links are insanely small; when I last used it (maybe 12 months ago), it would routinely bomb out on me with bizarro server-side error messages.
- pstinnett 17y agoI want Instapaper support in the HN app from Michael Grinich http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news/id339408916?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news/id339408916?mt=8
- aaronbrethorst 17y agoI asked him about that a couple days ago. I doubt he'd mind if I reposted his response. He said: "I'm indeed working on those features, although not as feverishly as my other projects. This app was mostly an experimental side project."
- onedognight 17y agoI stopped using icombinator.net after reading a comment that mentioned this service from google. http://google.com/gwt/x?u=http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://google.com/gwt/x?u=http://news.ycombinator.com/
- joegaudet 17y agoDoes this app download the hacker news comments as well? I should hope it does, as that's where a good 50% of the value from HN comes from, the community.
- swift 17y agoSeconded. The comments are a very big part of why I enjoy HN so much, and I wouldn't consider buying the app without support for them.
- stevederico 17y agoLooking forward to this. Will be using this on my commute for sure. This will also be very helpful for Wifi Only iPad users.