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Mac OSX Hacker News Y Combinator Menu Tab

45 points by guidefreitas 14y ago

Great Mac OSX Menu tab app to read Hacker News

naturalethic 14y ago
1. Get rid of the refresh button and have it auto refresh every 5 minutes. 2. Clear items that have been visited. 3. Add a clear all items item. 4. Show 25 (edit make that 30, same as HN front page) items and make it fit on a Air 11"
- se85 14y ago
  This. I really like it so far, but this would make it "insanely great"! edit: The fonts look a bit off compared to the real fonts used in iOS on the iPad for the same menu, but thats a minor thing.
- negrit 14y ago
  Also, add a link to the news on hackernews. For example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4277901 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4277901 for this one.
- jurre 14y ago
  https://github.com/guidefreitas/HNewsTab/fork https://github.com/guidefreitas/HNewsTab/fork
  - voltagex_ 14y ago
    I actually think the issues page would be a better first-step
liberatus 14y ago
Great idea. I definitely like the use of apple/ios design elements with the tabs/cells. For me, personally, I'm afraid this kind of thing might go the way of the twitter app. At first really handy, then mostly distracting. =-/ If only I had more will power. We'll see how long I can keep it up there!
halayli 14y ago
Great idea! This can be applied to other services as well. I am just afraid my top menu will become full of icons.
- avjinder 14y ago
  You could use Bartender http://www.macbartender.com/ http://www.macbartender.com/ which is free, to hide your menu icons. It works great.
- __float 14y ago
  I'm new to OS X, and in my search of must-have apps I've come across Bartender. With it, one can customize the visibility of these icons. http://www.macbartender.com/ http://www.macbartender.com/
waterside81 14y ago
I can't quite put my finger on it, but I find it hard to do a quick scan of stories. When I'm on the HN site, I can very quickly skim and find stories on the front page that interest me. Maybe it's the narrow width of the table? Can you make that adjustable by dragging the corner? Otherwise, it's really slick & works perfectly well. Good stuff.
st3fan 14y ago
Nominee for the procrastination award!
geon 14y ago
I personally find it a bit odd to see the iOS interface on the desktop, but if you want to go with it, you might want to do it properly. Do the detail disclosure buttons actually any details, or should you have used the disclosure indicator instead? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3078665/whats-the-difference-between-an-detail-disclosure-button-and-an-disclosure-indi http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3078665/whats-the-differe...
- cheeaun 14y ago
  The detail disclosure button shows the comments view.
empire29 14y ago
Im trying it out - but share voiced concerns about making the distraction that is HN that much more accessible -- but that's my problem, not yours :) and the iOS interface does feel a little peculiar.. Either way, great job building a fun app and sharing it with HN!
electic 14y ago
Neat idea. Might ruin my entire workday if this came into my desktop. Must. Resist. And. Not. Install.
wavephorm 14y ago
I'll tell you a better project to build. And if noone else builds it I eventually will/might. Build a HackerNews proxy. The CSS and HTML table structure of HN makes it completely unreadable on my iPad. And on the iPad there's no way to install a GreaseMonkey script to fix it. I don't want a dedicated app to read a website. In fact I think wrapping a website in an app makes about as much sense as wrapping a text file in a PDF and posting it on a website. What I want is to browse HN in mobile-friendly way on whatever device/browser I use. Everybody needs to stop wrapping websites in apps, it's just downright ridiculous to be doing that in 21st century and in the age of powerful HTML5 web browsers.
ajasmin 14y ago
The OS X app looks very nice. Though I'm having difficulties grabbing the scroll bar thumb on that blog. There's an element hovering it. Am I the only one seeing this: http://i.imgur.com/GyJ2z.png http://i.imgur.com/GyJ2z.png Of course I can use the scroll-wheel or cursor keys...
guidefreitas 14y ago
Hey! Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! I'll start to implement some of those as soon as I can and let you know.
joshontheweb 14y ago
pretty cool! I wish it had scroll-to-refresh though.

45 points by guidefreitas 14y ago

Great Mac OSX Menu tab app to read Hacker News

1. Get rid of the refresh button and have it auto refresh every 5 minutes. 2. Clear items that have been visited. 3. Add a clear all items item. 4. Show 25 (edit make that 30, same as HN front page) items and make it fit on a Air 11"

se85 14y ago
This. I really like it so far, but this would make it "insanely great"! edit: The fonts look a bit off compared to the real fonts used in iOS on the iPad for the same menu, but thats a minor thing.
negrit 14y ago
Also, add a link to the news on hackernews. For example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4277901 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4277901 for this one.
jurre 14y ago
https://github.com/guidefreitas/HNewsTab/fork https://github.com/guidefreitas/HNewsTab/fork
- voltagex_ 14y ago
  I actually think the issues page would be a better first-step

liberatus 14y ago

Great idea. I definitely like the use of apple/ios design elements with the tabs/cells. For me, personally, I'm afraid this kind of thing might go the way of the twitter app. At first really handy, then mostly distracting. =-/ If only I had more will power. We'll see how long I can keep it up there!

halayli 14y ago

Great idea! This can be applied to other services as well. I am just afraid my top menu will become full of icons.

avjinder 14y ago
You could use Bartender http://www.macbartender.com/ http://www.macbartender.com/ which is free, to hide your menu icons. It works great.
__float 14y ago
I'm new to OS X, and in my search of must-have apps I've come across Bartender. With it, one can customize the visibility of these icons. http://www.macbartender.com/ http://www.macbartender.com/

waterside81 14y ago

I can't quite put my finger on it, but I find it hard to do a quick scan of stories. When I'm on the HN site, I can very quickly skim and find stories on the front page that interest me. Maybe it's the narrow width of the table? Can you make that adjustable by dragging the corner? Otherwise, it's really slick & works perfectly well. Good stuff.

st3fan 14y ago

Nominee for the procrastination award!

geon 14y ago

I personally find it a bit odd to see the iOS interface on the desktop, but if you want to go with it, you might want to do it properly. Do the detail disclosure buttons actually any details, or should you have used the disclosure indicator instead? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3078665/whats-the-difference-between-an-detail-disclosure-button-and-an-disclosure-indi http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3078665/whats-the-differe...

cheeaun 14y ago
The detail disclosure button shows the comments view.

empire29 14y ago

Im trying it out - but share voiced concerns about making the distraction that is HN that much more accessible -- but that's my problem, not yours :) and the iOS interface does feel a little peculiar.. Either way, great job building a fun app and sharing it with HN!

electic 14y ago

Neat idea. Might ruin my entire workday if this came into my desktop. Must. Resist. And. Not. Install.

wavephorm 14y ago

I'll tell you a better project to build. And if noone else builds it I eventually will/might. Build a HackerNews proxy. The CSS and HTML table structure of HN makes it completely unreadable on my iPad. And on the iPad there's no way to install a GreaseMonkey script to fix it. I don't want a dedicated app to read a website. In fact I think wrapping a website in an app makes about as much sense as wrapping a text file in a PDF and posting it on a website. What I want is to browse HN in mobile-friendly way on whatever device/browser I use. Everybody needs to stop wrapping websites in apps, it's just downright ridiculous to be doing that in 21st century and in the age of powerful HTML5 web browsers.

ajasmin 14y ago

The OS X app looks very nice. Though I'm having difficulties grabbing the scroll bar thumb on that blog. There's an element hovering it. Am I the only one seeing this: http://i.imgur.com/GyJ2z.png http://i.imgur.com/GyJ2z.png Of course I can use the scroll-wheel or cursor keys...

guidefreitas 14y ago

Hey! Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! I'll start to implement some of those as soon as I can and let you know.

joshontheweb 14y ago

pretty cool! I wish it had scroll-to-refresh though.