Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look

Posted by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:01AM
from the self-post dept.

I have recently started following hacker news and the size of the fonts and layout were making it a bit hard for me to read on my little netbook. So I just wrote a few lines of code to reformat the hacker news for me.

Have a look at the 'Lite' version here http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews

Just so you know, it's a cut down version and submissions, comments etc. will still have to be done on the original hacker news website.

If you guys like it, feel free to use it for easy reading.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:11PM (#2333155)

I said that I would do this tomorrow in my last post, but couldn't resist the temptation to play with the code again :) here you go http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx this is the non-Ajax version.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @11:36AM (#2332422)

Sorry guys, it's mainly to do with the security settings on your browsers. I am using JQuery/ AJAX to call the proxy on my server which is getting blocked by your OS/Browser. This is the only optimum way that I could think of to parse the Hacker news website and reformat the HTML

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:33PM (#2336748)

Has anyone tried the new version yet?http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx

I have added a 2 minutes cache to speed up the browsing as well

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by Baadier on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @11:01AM (#2332291)

I have the same expierience loading the site on my Blackberry with a it hangiong on a blank page,the site shows when I reload it with Javascript on

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by Baadier on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @11:02AM (#2332293)

I have the same experience loading the site on my Blackberry with a it hanging on a blank page,the site shows when I reload it with Javascript on

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @11:48AM (#2332487)

I just tested it on my BB torch and its working fine except the font style is not getting applied properly.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by RiderOfGiraffes on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:08AM (#2332041)

Clickable: http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by jrgifford on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:21AM (#2332094)

Isn't working in Google Chrome Dev channel.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:29AM (#2332134)

I have only tested it on IE7, IE8, FF3.6, Chrome 10.0. If you let me know the problem you are experiencing, I shall look into it.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by jrgifford on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:49AM (#2332217)

Doesn't load - it just sits there, like it's a blank HTML page with no content. It's the Ubuntu (Like that matters) Chrome 11.0.696.12 dev. - http://img.jamesg.tk/doesnt-work - (Screenshots of the page, and then of the source.) -

Also, works fine in Firefox 4 RC.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @11:42AM (#2332453)

For some reason, your browser is blocking the JQuery/ AJAX calls.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by jrgifford on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @12:39PM (#2332721)

FIGURED IT OUT. Ad Blocker Pro was killing it. Apparently, it was thinking it was an ad. ;) Works now.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:15PM (#2333175)

well done mate :)

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by RiderOfGiraffes on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:27AM (#2332120)

Out of curiousity, why did you reply to me?

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by bmelton on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:34AM (#2332151)

Because generally, the person who makes the clickable link is the person affiliated with the project, would be my guess.

I generally don't pay much attention to usernames around here (or anywhere) -- and it'd be easy to see how one might jump to the conclusion that the 'clickable' provider was the same person who posted the OP.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by RiderOfGiraffes on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:50AM (#2332227)

Actually, in my experience most of the time the clickable link is not provided by the person submitting the item in the first place. It's a cause of constant, low-level irritation to me that people submit things like this and then don't make a clickable link in the comments. I don't understand why they don't, but they don't. It's almost as if they don't care.

Curious, and annoying.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @11:03AM (#2332300)

Sorry mate, I am new to Hacker News; I will remember next time :)

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by jrgifford on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:42AM (#2332190)

Precisely the conclusion that I jumped to.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @11:50AM (#2332494)

I shall post a non ajax version of this tomorrow

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by pclark on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @10:38AM (#2332170)

Why doesn't the url change as you browse? For one thing, means you can't go back in the browser.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @11:40AM (#2332442)

This was done deliberately as a feature, but you didn't like it :( All the external links will be opened in a new window if that is helpful

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look by sunsai on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @02:14PM (#2333165)

hello mate, please try this one http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx

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