I've been using this for awhile now as my primary HN front-page interface, for several reasons:<p>- easier to read<p>- mobile-browser friendly<p>- auto refreshes<p>- preserves articles that make it to the front page, and in (reverse) order of the time they made it to the front page, so no need to constantly check the front page and parse all of its contents to see if new articles are posted<p>cf. <a href="http://www.hckrnews.com/about.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hckrnews.com/about.html</a><p>a big Thank You and kudos to its author(s) and maintainer(s)-- it works well and consistently!
I've been pretty happy with the HackerNew Chrome extension: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlndihpmbbgmbpjohilcphbfhddd" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...</a>
One thing I would love is:<p>-top X posts by comments from a day/week/month<p>-top X posts by votes from day/week/momth<p>What I don't like about Hacker News is that interesting things fall out of front page too quickly and discussion dies I prefer interface where interesting stuff stays at the top longer (amount of comments last week approximate it well in my view).
Since people are mentioning various other HN interfaces they use, I'd highly recommend to check out Georgify — <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfaleomlfanfehgblppafkijjhmi" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...</a>
This website, hckrnews.com, is developed and maintained by Wayne Larsen: <a href="https://github.com/wvl" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wvl</a><p>BTW another project of Wayne's is: <a href="http://clara.io" rel="nofollow">http://clara.io</a>
There have been many alt HN interfaces. I try them all, yet I never end up sticking with any of them. I feel like HN meets its needs pretty well and I like that they have resisted change (whether consciously or not)
I hacked a Greasemonkey script a while ago because I wanted some easy way to pick out vote/comments. I've been using it for many months now and it's not annoyed me once, which is a good sign. It also leaves the rest of HN alone.<p>Screenshot: <a href="http://cl.ly/image/3G1k2j0w2Q3G" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/image/3G1k2j0w2Q3G</a><p>Source: <a href="https://gist.github.com/ingmar/5564603" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/ingmar/5564603</a>
I used to use this interface, but then I noticed a bug (or interesting feature, depending on your point of view) in that when you were viewing the top 10 or top 20, and loaded more articles, some articles would disappear from the list.<p>My theory on this is that it was caused by loading articles a certain number of hours back from the current time, and then grouping by day before sorting to the top X.<p>For example, if the last 24 hours were loaded, and grouped into today and (part of) yesterday, you would get an accurate top X for today so far, and an accurate top X <i>for the portion of the previous day it had fetched</i>.<p>This was particularly noticeable when I hadn't visited for a few days (I've since rectified this aberrant behavior of mine) and loaded a few past days to review missed submissions. Seeing something that caught my eye disappear as it loaded older content drove me nuts.<p>It looks like the problem is fixed now, but it's hard to be sure, as it may be more or less likely depending on the time of the day you visit.<p>I sent a bug report to the developer when I noticed this (in February 2013), but never heard back. I'll happily go back to using this interface if it's fixed though, I found it generally more pleasant to use.
I welcome this, but the UI confuses immediately: what's top 10 and top 20? and top 50%? No obvious explanations as to what the referent of "top" is! No scales, no FAQ.<p>Also, I want to know what the settings are compared with the "official" HN frontpage ordering.<p>"about" is broken, where I had hoped to find a FAQ
I prefer <a href="http://lessmeme.com/less.html" rel="nofollow">http://lessmeme.com/less.html</a> because it lets me quickly see which items are new.
My favorite continues to be <a href="http://hackerwebapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hackerwebapp.com/</a> but this has some nice features as well.
I was using it and it's great but the biggest annoyance is the fact that if I wanted to comment, I still had to go to the original HN... So I started using this extension:<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/helvetinews/jebgogambklaokgeeljmhaanbcpihejc" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/helvetinews/jebgog...</a><p>Now I just use regular HN with it.
I have started using it few months ago and I like it. Mostly because I can read hacker news as pragmatically as I have been reading google reader. I don't need to visit home of HN several times a day to find out if there is any new posts. I just open hckrnews.com and I see what have been posted since my last visit.
It would be nice to collapse or skip all replies to a parent, do any of these extensions do that? I often find some discussion that is uninteresting to me (but might be others for others) and just want to easily get past it. If it is long, it takes some time to find where the indention matches-up many PGDNs below.
The HipsterNews chrome extension is pretty sweet. I've been using it for 3 months or so
<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midnccdcbhikpniledkdhojbhdnkkkdb" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc...</a>
What do you guys use on your phone (if you use an app on the phone)? I have been using an app called "Hacker News 2" in the play store. I generally like it, but the comments are flaky, sometimes it lets me see them and other times it doesn't.
Comparing the lists between new.ycombinator.com and www.hckrnews.com some articles on top 10 on the first are missing on the second is that intended and I didn't understand how it works?
I like this one, everything in one place:<p><a href="http://georgenava.appspot.com/demo/hn/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://georgenava.appspot.com/demo/hn/index.html</a><p>* Mockup, nothing works.
I use StyleBot to customize HN's stylesheet:<p><a href="http://stylebot.me/search?q=news.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">http://stylebot.me/search?q=news.ycombinator.com</a>