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ICombinator - Hacker News for the iPhone

70 points by ca98am79 18y ago

trickjarrett 18y ago
Well done sir, I will be using this on my ipod touch.
- bdotdub 18y ago
  Glad you like it! Does the screen transition a little choppy on yours?
  - trickjarrett 18y ago
    No flicker at all, it seems to run pretty smoothly thus far.
sidsavara 18y ago
I don't have any iPhone, but this is spiffy. Even in my normal Firefox window ;)
bdotdub 18y ago
Hey cool, I created this :) How did you find it? It's still buggy. I was going to release it in a couple of weeks. Thoughts? Suggestions?
- ca98am79 18y ago
  I did a google search for my username and found it. I like it. news.ycombinator.com sucks with the iPhone and I like your site a lot better - much easier to read. Sorry to force you into the spotlight early, but it seems to work fine for me. It makes reading hacker news on the iPhone A LOT better. Thanks for creating it.
  - bdotdub 18y ago
    Not a problem. Glad you enjoy it :)
  - pygy 18y ago
    Personally, I prefer this layout on my computer too (except for the lack of a bigger left margin).
- ca98am79 18y ago
  I like the name - pretty clever
- sant0sk1 18y ago
  I've been using this from my iPhone for a few weeks after stumbling upon it from your profile page. Thought it was public knowledge or I would've submitted it myself! =]
- babyshake 18y ago
  This does exactly what it should and no more. Great job.
- bdotdub 18y ago
  UPDATE: Hey everyone, I've updated iCombinator with a couple of things: 1. http://icombinator.net/ http://icombinator.net/ now forwards to http://www.icombinator.net/ http://www.icombinator.net/ GAE doesn't allow naked domains anymore 2. Added an icon for the web clip 3. Enabled standalone status (thanks doctyper!) Anyone have better artistic skills for the icon? I'm open to suggestions :)
  - dc2k08 18y ago
    you can have this one if you like: http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6992/icombinatortc2.jpg http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6992/icombinatortc2.jpg looking at their logo on the main site, perhaps this should be a little more svelter: http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7205/icombinator2nj1.jpg http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7205/icombinator2nj1.jpg also this one: http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3392/icombinator3vo8.jpg http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3392/icombinator3vo8.jpg
    - dc2k08 18y ago
      scratch the rest: http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3820/icombinator5wt8.jpg http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3820/icombinator5wt8.jpg try that one. you can have any format you like if you want it. its a vector.
      - wensing 18y ago
        It's the flux capacitor! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_capacitor#Flux_capacitor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_capacitor#Flux_capacitor
        dc2k08 18y ago
        non-1.21 giga-watt version: http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4145/icombinator7xl0.jpg http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4145/icombinator7xl0.jpg
  - zack 18y ago
    you rule for this
dmpayton 18y ago
Fabulous! Request: Please add support for non-www domain. It took me a few minutes to realize why I was getting 404'd on my phone but not in FireFox.
- bdotdub 18y ago
  Yup, I'm trying. It's on Google App engine and its a little tricky with the DNS stuff. Will try to figure that out tonight.
j2d2 18y ago
Interesting. Hacker News is already very light but I like the bigness of important things and smallness of others when I view it on my phone. PG, I like this enough that it'd be neat if you gave us something similar so our account info can go through you. It doesn't seem to work as http://icobinator.net http://icobinator.net btw. The www seems required.
- bdotdub 18y ago
  Yup, working on the DNS stuff. Yeah, I just thought it'd be better on the eyes :)
unalone 18y ago
Nice! It keeps the look and feel and works smoothly: just what I want from an iPhone adaptation. Is it tough making the sliding transitions? Or is there some basic code that handles that?
- bdotdub 18y ago
  I used iUI (http://code.google.com/p/iui/ http://code.google.com/p/iui/). There's a patch for smoother transitions somewhere in there that I've planning to put in.
doctyper 18y ago
Excellent, but you missed adding some goodies that would really make this stand out. 1. Add a webpage icon to the app. 2. Enable standalone status, so the app launches fullscreen instead of in Safari. More info: https://developer.apple.com/webapps/docs/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/chapter_8_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002051-CH3-SW4 https://developer.apple.com/webapps/docs/documentation/Apple...
- deleted 18y ago
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- bdotdub 18y ago
  Awesome. Thanks for the suggestions. Will look into it when I get back home :)
- bdotdub 18y ago
  Just added both. The icon nothing special, but its better nothing. If anyone has anything better, let me know :)
tzury 18y ago
I wish ycombinator will be one day that elegant
qeek 18y ago
Now it's time to redesign the actual Hacker News site.
geuis 18y ago
I'm almost done with a same-domain bookmarklet that reformats HN for the iPhone within the browser. No 3rd party sites will be required, and you can interact with your account completely from the site.
t0pj 18y ago
Excellent. Now if I could only cut and paste using my iPhone. ;)
AndrewWarner 18y ago
Well done. I read news on my phone, not on my computer. I wish other news sources realized that. I can't tell you how many news sites simply crash my iphone, but here are three: Portfolio.com, the Wall Street Journal, and Vanity Fair. It's nuts.
- phr 18y ago
  WSJ stopped crashing so much when I disabled javascript, but that's pretty drastic.
- pchristensen 18y ago
  With Instapaper you can read stuff in text-only. Plus you can read disconnected (prob more useful for Touch than Phone)
lpgauth 18y ago
Than you! I used to use the website Buxfer made (http://buxfer.com/yc/ http://buxfer.com/yc/) but it has been down for a while... Not too sure what is going on there..
puffythefish 18y ago
Thanks, I've been looking for something like this! I just have one gripe: http://icombinator.net http://icombinator.net (without the www) doesn't work. Other than that it's perfect
- unalone 18y ago
  He said elsewhere that he's going to try to get that working tonight - it's on the App Engine, so it's tricky.
sh1mmer 18y ago
I've not really had trouble reading yCombinator on my iPhone and I can't vote up stories on your 3rd party site. So I appreciate the sentiment but I don't see the point.
- wfarr 18y ago
  While I "see the point", I think you have a legitimate complaint with regards to the voting.
lhorn 18y ago
I think a better (and cheaper) way to do this would be to create a custom CSS file and assign it to ycombinator.com in Safari.
danw 18y ago
Thats brilliant, thank you. I love the instapaper integration. Looking forward to seeing the new/threads/profile pages if you're adding them :D
venuem 18y ago
If you have blogs and are looking to get them formatted for the iphone or android platform. check out http://venuem.com http://venuem.com
kriyative 18y ago
Also, check out http://i.venuem.net/ychn http://i.venuem.net/ychn VenueM is a general purpose solution for turning any RSS feed into a clean looking iPhone web site.
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icombi 18y ago
This works well on Android G1 as well, as most iUi web apps do. I wonder though if it's best not to popup a new page when clicking through to an article. With G1's global Back button it's not too bad to quickly go back, but on iPhone, you need tap-swipe-tap.
AndrewWarner 18y ago
I wish it was easier to comment. I don't so much want to read the news as I want to interact with it. Still, I love this. Every news site should offer this kind of iphone option.

70 points by ca98am79 18y ago

trickjarrett 18y ago

Well done sir, I will be using this on my ipod touch.

bdotdub 18y ago
Glad you like it! Does the screen transition a little choppy on yours?
- trickjarrett 18y ago
  No flicker at all, it seems to run pretty smoothly thus far.

sidsavara 18y ago

I don't have any iPhone, but this is spiffy. Even in my normal Firefox window ;)

bdotdub 18y ago

Hey cool, I created this :) How did you find it? It's still buggy. I was going to release it in a couple of weeks. Thoughts? Suggestions?

ca98am79 18y ago
I did a google search for my username and found it. I like it. news.ycombinator.com sucks with the iPhone and I like your site a lot better - much easier to read. Sorry to force you into the spotlight early, but it seems to work fine for me. It makes reading hacker news on the iPhone A LOT better. Thanks for creating it.
- bdotdub 18y ago
  Not a problem. Glad you enjoy it :)
- pygy 18y ago
  Personally, I prefer this layout on my computer too (except for the lack of a bigger left margin).
ca98am79 18y ago
I like the name - pretty clever
sant0sk1 18y ago
I've been using this from my iPhone for a few weeks after stumbling upon it from your profile page. Thought it was public knowledge or I would've submitted it myself! =]
babyshake 18y ago
This does exactly what it should and no more. Great job.
bdotdub 18y ago
UPDATE: Hey everyone, I've updated iCombinator with a couple of things: 1. http://icombinator.net/ http://icombinator.net/ now forwards to http://www.icombinator.net/ http://www.icombinator.net/ GAE doesn't allow naked domains anymore 2. Added an icon for the web clip 3. Enabled standalone status (thanks doctyper!) Anyone have better artistic skills for the icon? I'm open to suggestions :)
- dc2k08 18y ago
  you can have this one if you like: http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6992/icombinatortc2.jpg http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6992/icombinatortc2.jpg looking at their logo on the main site, perhaps this should be a little more svelter: http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7205/icombinator2nj1.jpg http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/7205/icombinator2nj1.jpg also this one: http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3392/icombinator3vo8.jpg http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3392/icombinator3vo8.jpg
  - dc2k08 18y ago
    scratch the rest: http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3820/icombinator5wt8.jpg http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3820/icombinator5wt8.jpg try that one. you can have any format you like if you want it. its a vector.
    - wensing 18y ago
      It's the flux capacitor! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_capacitor#Flux_capacitor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_capacitor#Flux_capacitor
      - dc2k08 18y ago
        non-1.21 giga-watt version: http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4145/icombinator7xl0.jpg http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4145/icombinator7xl0.jpg
- zack 18y ago
  you rule for this

dmpayton 18y ago

Fabulous! Request: Please add support for non-www domain. It took me a few minutes to realize why I was getting 404'd on my phone but not in FireFox.

bdotdub 18y ago
Yup, I'm trying. It's on Google App engine and its a little tricky with the DNS stuff. Will try to figure that out tonight.

j2d2 18y ago

Interesting. Hacker News is already very light but I like the bigness of important things and smallness of others when I view it on my phone. PG, I like this enough that it'd be neat if you gave us something similar so our account info can go through you. It doesn't seem to work as http://icobinator.net http://icobinator.net btw. The www seems required.

bdotdub 18y ago
Yup, working on the DNS stuff. Yeah, I just thought it'd be better on the eyes :)

unalone 18y ago

Nice! It keeps the look and feel and works smoothly: just what I want from an iPhone adaptation. Is it tough making the sliding transitions? Or is there some basic code that handles that?

bdotdub 18y ago
I used iUI (http://code.google.com/p/iui/ http://code.google.com/p/iui/). There's a patch for smoother transitions somewhere in there that I've planning to put in.

doctyper 18y ago

Excellent, but you missed adding some goodies that would really make this stand out. 1. Add a webpage icon to the app. 2. Enable standalone status, so the app launches fullscreen instead of in Safari. More info: https://developer.apple.com/webapps/docs/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/chapter_8_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002051-CH3-SW4 https://developer.apple.com/webapps/docs/documentation/Apple...

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bdotdub 18y ago
Awesome. Thanks for the suggestions. Will look into it when I get back home :)
bdotdub 18y ago
Just added both. The icon nothing special, but its better nothing. If anyone has anything better, let me know :)

tzury 18y ago

I wish ycombinator will be one day that elegant

qeek 18y ago

Now it's time to redesign the actual Hacker News site.

geuis 18y ago

I'm almost done with a same-domain bookmarklet that reformats HN for the iPhone within the browser. No 3rd party sites will be required, and you can interact with your account completely from the site.

t0pj 18y ago

Excellent. Now if I could only cut and paste using my iPhone. ;)

AndrewWarner 18y ago

Well done. I read news on my phone, not on my computer. I wish other news sources realized that. I can't tell you how many news sites simply crash my iphone, but here are three: Portfolio.com, the Wall Street Journal, and Vanity Fair. It's nuts.

phr 18y ago
WSJ stopped crashing so much when I disabled javascript, but that's pretty drastic.
pchristensen 18y ago
With Instapaper you can read stuff in text-only. Plus you can read disconnected (prob more useful for Touch than Phone)

lpgauth 18y ago

Than you! I used to use the website Buxfer made (http://buxfer.com/yc/ http://buxfer.com/yc/) but it has been down for a while... Not too sure what is going on there..

puffythefish 18y ago

Thanks, I've been looking for something like this! I just have one gripe: http://icombinator.net http://icombinator.net (without the www) doesn't work. Other than that it's perfect

unalone 18y ago
He said elsewhere that he's going to try to get that working tonight - it's on the App Engine, so it's tricky.

sh1mmer 18y ago

I've not really had trouble reading yCombinator on my iPhone and I can't vote up stories on your 3rd party site. So I appreciate the sentiment but I don't see the point.

wfarr 18y ago
While I "see the point", I think you have a legitimate complaint with regards to the voting.

lhorn 18y ago

I think a better (and cheaper) way to do this would be to create a custom CSS file and assign it to ycombinator.com in Safari.

danw 18y ago

Thats brilliant, thank you. I love the instapaper integration. Looking forward to seeing the new/threads/profile pages if you're adding them :D

venuem 18y ago

If you have blogs and are looking to get them formatted for the iphone or android platform. check out http://venuem.com http://venuem.com

kriyative 18y ago

Also, check out http://i.venuem.net/ychn http://i.venuem.net/ychn VenueM is a general purpose solution for turning any RSS feed into a clean looking iPhone web site.

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icombi 18y ago

This works well on Android G1 as well, as most iUi web apps do. I wonder though if it's best not to popup a new page when clicking through to an article. With G1's global Back button it's not too bad to quickly go back, but on iPhone, you need tap-swipe-tap.

AndrewWarner 18y ago

I wish it was easier to comment. I don't so much want to read the news as I want to interact with it. Still, I love this. Every news site should offer this kind of iphone option.