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Ask HN: Any GOOD iPad HN Reader?

by EwanG·15y ago·7 comments·view on hn ↗

I'd ideally like Alien Blue the HN edition, but I gather we'll seen an Android version before we see an HN one. I have tried loading in Flipbook, but that gets the articles without the comments. Is the problem that the HN API isn't as rich as the one for Reddit, or... ?

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I've made one, it's on the app store for free, as well as open source on github, feel free to fork and improve it:

https://github.com/chrishulbert/HackerNewsReader

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-reader/id45751901...

http://hn.gethifi.com/

This website is really snappy and FAST on iPad. Plus, favicons on URL submissions is a nice touch!

The only problem I have had with this (on iphone) is that the api they use is throttled (because hackernews will ban ips who use the site too much (see: http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt)

I don't think we'll get to see anything like alien blue until hacker news can return something like json in addition to html.

There is no API for Hacker News. There's http://api.ihackernews.com/, which is unofficial and based on screen scraping, and doing the screen-scraping yourself.

When I open up my iPad and want to read sites like HN I've found Flipboard to be really good. Great interface.

http://flipboard.com/

Saw this one awhile back. http://ihackernews.com/

I submitted my iOS Universal app for Hacker News to the app store for review today.It should hopefully be released next week.

Here are some iPad Screenshots u can look at. http://www.flickr.com/photos/68420544@N03/