There are many like it but this one is mine: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pivit/id705715915?mt=8<p>Seriously, though, this Hacker News reader is better than what's out there, or I wouldn't have spent time on it.<p>How? Most importantly, it utilizes the background refresh APIs, so content is always up to date. Pull to refresh is there, but you probably won't need it. The more addicted you are, the more often it updates. So if you check every few hours, you'll always get the current front page.<p>Complementing this, it helps you see not only what you've read but what you've decided not to. I kept wasting precious milliseconds re-scanning titles that I wasn't interested in. Pivit fixes that by showing a little orange indicator to the left of an article if it's new to you. Stuff you've already read is dimmed.<p>It also uses a new text rendering engine (Text Kit) to respects system font settings, for the senior devs out there...<p>If that's not enough, well, it's the only client sporting a modern iOS7-native design, with beautiful typography.<p>It does not currently offer posting or account mumbo jumbo, but I'll add that if it gets any traction.<p>Try it out today and let me know what you think. I built it mostly for me, but also for you. Free today, a buck tomorrow.
First reaction: I only see 4 submissions per screenful, on my iPhone 4s. I'd prefer more density.<p>news:yc shows me 5 submissions per screen, and the description of each submission includes age, number of comments, points, and submitter username. (I could probably do without the points -- the rest I need.)<p>I don't care for comment threads to be collapsed by default. Especially when I open one comment thread, I have to then keep touching again to see further subcomments -- that doesn't work for me.<p>Thanks for the free trial. I wouldn't have tried it otherwise.<p>And thanks for building another HN client. I don't really care much for any of the ones I've tried. What I'd really like is the Alien Blue reddit client for HN.
I don't seem to be able to view the actual submission text for the Ask HNs, just the comments. I like how you don't use readability or any of that, just load the page. And also, is there a way to add Open in Chrome to the share button?