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Work · May 22, 2011

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Hacker News Reader for the iPad

Since I got an iPad I was looking for a better Hacker News reading experience than the one you can get using the web version. On the iPhone I use the ihackernews.com web app (and soon going to try news.yc). It's decent for the iPhone, but it doesn't scale good on the iPad. To my surprise, when I checked there was no decent iPad app for HN (i.e. lacking ability to comment or vote, no readability support and more). I anyway wanted to give a try to iPad development, and was looking for an interesting project to work on. Making HN reader app seemed as a good candidate. Over the last weekend I…

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Since I got an iPad I was looking for a better Hacker News reading experience than the one you can get using the web version. On the iPhone I use the ihackernews.com web app (and soon going to try news.yc). It's decent for the iPhone, but it doesn't scale good on the iPad. To my surprise, when I checked there was no decent iPad app for HN (i.e. lacking ability to comment or vote, no readability support and more). I anyway wanted to give a try to iPad development, and was looking for an interesting project to work on. Making HN reader app seemed as a good candidate. Over the last weekend I started working on the app. The app will be ready for beta by the end of this week (sign up here: http://bit.ly/kCp6XL) and released as open source (http://github.com/arikfr/hnhd) and to the App Store by the mid of June. Screenshots and more information can be found in the intro post: http://hnhd.posterous.com/introducing-hacker-news-reader-for-the-ipad Will appreciate feedback, beta testers and ideas for a name. THANKS!

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