HN reader(hn_reader.joshhuckabee.com)
hn_reader.joshhuckabee.com
HN reader
http://hn_reader.joshhuckabee.com/
31 comments
There you are! Sorry about possibly jumping the gun :)
Will take a look. Thanks!
I found a bug! I can't click on the HN Reader story more than once and go in total recursion! :-D
Here is a screenshot https://img.skitch.com/20111223-dx69ix74wimn8twwmrqg1urm6j.p...
Here is a screenshot https://img.skitch.com/20111223-dx69ix74wimn8twwmrqg1urm6j.p...
I'm not sure if that's really a bug, but I'm glad I'm not the first person to do that as soon as I saw it!
BTW, just to clarify -- this isn't my project. I noticed some clickthroughs from this URL on one of my sites, checked it out, then submitted to HN :)
Hopefully the actual developer sees this thread and jumps in...
Hopefully the actual developer sees this thread and jumps in...
Underscores aren't legal in hostnames.
Nice and simple layout.
Got a similar site too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2529573
It's here - http://ireadhn.g-webtech.com/
Did you use the same API? I have never had a chance to work on the comments but got inspired to work on it again.
Good work!
Did you use the same API? I have never had a chance to work on the comments but got inspired to work on it again.
Good work!
This totally fails on iOS (iPhone). The screen is not resizeable. The left column is fixed, and the right column is cut off.
Looks nice. I'd like to see the vote count for posts if possible (mostly because I like to see how old/popular a post is)
This is great. Personally I would love the rendering of the web-page to be in the Readability format.
This is a critical feature!!! ;P
This is a critical feature!!! ;P
I second this! Readability ftw
Nice. I was working on one for a while too. The iFrame problem is definitely the biggest hinderance. Comments also need styling: http://hn.thanithani.com/
Wow, it looks like a surprisingly large number of sites refuse to be framed. Shouldn't be too much of a surprise when you consider the threat of click-jacking, but interesting to see none-the-less.
Yes, I've written my own HN reader as well as other apps using iframes...and basically the situation sucks.
With a reader like this, you have two real options: * Include regular iframes and risk an increasing number of sites opting out with JavaScript or (more politely) an X-Frame-Options header. * Use <iframe sandbox> to prevent people busting out of it with JavaScript. But that stops all JavaScript, so apps and videos won't show up.
Pity. iFrames have so many great uses like this Reader. Browsers really need to deal with the clickjacking problem instead of forcing everyone to bust out of them and making sites like this unusable.
With a reader like this, you have two real options: * Include regular iframes and risk an increasing number of sites opting out with JavaScript or (more politely) an X-Frame-Options header. * Use <iframe sandbox> to prevent people busting out of it with JavaScript. But that stops all JavaScript, so apps and videos won't show up.
Pity. iFrames have so many great uses like this Reader. Browsers really need to deal with the clickjacking problem instead of forcing everyone to bust out of them and making sites like this unusable.
Yeah that's a real show stopper ... otherwise I'd use this all day.
Guess standalone app is the only route to avoid this? I think even Chrome extensions couldn't get around this since they dropped the experimental sidebar thing :/
Guess standalone app is the only route to avoid this? I think even Chrome extensions couldn't get around this since they dropped the experimental sidebar thing :/
It doesn't handle gracefully, sites which prevent themselves from being opened in frames by utilising the "frame-ancestors" option of Content-Security-Policy.
I've gone a different Route, converting the story to a readable format first: http://thequeue.org/hn
Combination of your `queue' and `hn reader' would be the best news site ever.
I'm interested in a collaboration
Edit: You could use my API (http://thequeue.org/r?id=URL&title=Title)
Edit: You could use my API (http://thequeue.org/r?id=URL&title=Title)
Very cool. Some sites, like the Google 10,000 house article are blocking pages rendered in frames. Perhaps there is a way to do DIVs?
Would like to see URL changing as I click through so I can favourite - apart from that, it really works well!
Very nice! Would love j and k keyboard movement and loading of more stories when you scroll near the end.
would be excellent if you added voting buttons in the title box as well!
Reading HN is so fast with this.
nice, very nice!
Lovely to access.
Comment icon feels a little minimized, is it better for power users?
Importantly, unlike official 'comments' links, it is always clickable in same place.
Comment icon feels a little minimized, is it better for power users?
Importantly, unlike official 'comments' links, it is always clickable in same place.
I created this project several months ago as way to dive in and learn node.js. I found it useful and enjoyable to use for myself and decided to throw it on the web. For anyone interested, the code is available at https://github.com/jhuckabee/hn_reader. Pull requests welcome.
Unfortunately a lot of sites don't like to be framed which makes the interface annoying to use at times. Also, don't try to open it on a mobile device. It flat out doesn't work. I hope to fix that in a future version. Despite these annoyances, I still use it as my primary means of reading HN.