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Please make Hacker News slower

16 points by planck 18y ago

I browse Hacker News from my iPhone, and due to the text size and link placements, I frequently mis-click, hitting user profile lnks instead of the story links. On other sites, this is fine, as I have time to hit stop and tap ok the correct link. Not so on HN - the profile page loads before I realize I've made a mistake. So please, throw some for(i=0;i<10000;i++) loops in there. My productivity depends on it.

axod 18y ago
erm... zoom in so you don't mis-click?
thomasswift 18y ago
i browse it on my ipod, i know what you are saying about mis-clicks, just pinch and zoom and the next page will come up not all zoomed in. i don't think your gonna get them to add needless loops :)
xirium 18y ago
Try accessing it via http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi As a bonus, you get a search box.
kajecounterhack 18y ago
So you're telling YC to be less efficient for the sake of the iPhone...is that a good thing or a bad thing?
- lvecsey 18y ago
  He was joking :) However the idea is good if its implemented with a javascript SetTimeout. The usernames and other infos can show up a bit later.
  - staticshock 18y ago
    heh. if it's done with javascript, might as well be done as a user script. when dom is ready, run through the <a> tags and rewire them.
edw519 18y ago
Don't ever ask anyone to do this. A user once complained that a job was running too long. After some research, I found something like this (SLEEP 10 seconds) inside a loop. I removed it. The batch time went from 7 hours down to 23 minutes. The user thought I was a genius. When I told my client (the IT manager) what I had done, he was pissed. He said, "You should have changed it to a SLEEP 5, so we had something to give him the next time he complained."
- maxklein 18y ago
  I knew this one guy who liked telling old jokes, but pretending it actually happened to him. But he's dead now. He walked into a bar and broke his skull.
  - 0x44 18y ago
    He probably shouldn't have asked the bartender for duck food, then.
    - deleted 18y ago
      [deleted]
    - maxklein 18y ago
      I'm sorry, I don't get it. Please explain.
      - ssanders82 18y ago
        "Put it on my bill"?
        Herring 18y ago
        He kept asking for soup & quackers?
  - edw519 18y ago
    I wish it were a joke. I just googled the PHB that said that to me. He is alive and well, MBAing at his fourth company. Pity his tech people. You got me to thinking. I have lots of old stories that would appear to be stolen jokes if you didn't know any better. One of my favorites is the user who wanted a list of SKUs not on the computer. Still haven't figured out what he was thinking.
chrisconley 18y ago
Speed is not the solution. A better interface for mobile devices is.
- wallflower 18y ago
  If you haven't already heard of the News.YC iPhone web app from Buxfer (YC Winter '07) http://buxfer.com/yc http://buxfer.com/yc
  - dcurtis 18y ago
    It's buggy and has an ugly icon. Otherwise, it'd be amazing.

16 points by planck 18y ago

axod 18y ago

erm... zoom in so you don't mis-click?

thomasswift 18y ago

i browse it on my ipod, i know what you are saying about mis-clicks, just pinch and zoom and the next page will come up not all zoomed in. i don't think your gonna get them to add needless loops :)

xirium 18y ago

Try accessing it via http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi As a bonus, you get a search box.

kajecounterhack 18y ago

So you're telling YC to be less efficient for the sake of the iPhone...is that a good thing or a bad thing?

lvecsey 18y ago
He was joking :) However the idea is good if its implemented with a javascript SetTimeout. The usernames and other infos can show up a bit later.
- staticshock 18y ago
  heh. if it's done with javascript, might as well be done as a user script. when dom is ready, run through the <a> tags and rewire them.

edw519 18y ago

Don't ever ask anyone to do this. A user once complained that a job was running too long. After some research, I found something like this (SLEEP 10 seconds) inside a loop. I removed it. The batch time went from 7 hours down to 23 minutes. The user thought I was a genius. When I told my client (the IT manager) what I had done, he was pissed. He said, "You should have changed it to a SLEEP 5, so we had something to give him the next time he complained."

maxklein 18y ago
I knew this one guy who liked telling old jokes, but pretending it actually happened to him. But he's dead now. He walked into a bar and broke his skull.
- 0x44 18y ago
  He probably shouldn't have asked the bartender for duck food, then.
  - deleted 18y ago
    [deleted]
  - maxklein 18y ago
    I'm sorry, I don't get it. Please explain.
    - ssanders82 18y ago
      "Put it on my bill"?
      - Herring 18y ago
        He kept asking for soup & quackers?
- edw519 18y ago
  I wish it were a joke. I just googled the PHB that said that to me. He is alive and well, MBAing at his fourth company. Pity his tech people. You got me to thinking. I have lots of old stories that would appear to be stolen jokes if you didn't know any better. One of my favorites is the user who wanted a list of SKUs not on the computer. Still haven't figured out what he was thinking.

chrisconley 18y ago

Speed is not the solution. A better interface for mobile devices is.

wallflower 18y ago
If you haven't already heard of the News.YC iPhone web app from Buxfer (YC Winter '07) http://buxfer.com/yc http://buxfer.com/yc
- dcurtis 18y ago
  It's buggy and has an ugly icon. Otherwise, it'd be amazing.