How do you browse Hacker News?

Website.

Also, there's a way to make polls on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

I faved the "new" URL and keep refreshing the site in one if the 50+ tabs on my mobile browser, whenever I feel bored.

No app, no client, no whatsever. That's one news site among lots others and not worth setting up a read-flow around.

if one's so into news, Bloomberg terminal 24k/y, msy be a proper client. But not for me.

Why the question?

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I don't use any third party HN clients made by other people, for privacy reasons. All those clients are neat, but you don't know what they're doing in the background unless you start firing up debuggers. The HN site itself is enough and last time I checked there's no trackers and it even works with JS disabled. I use a mix of my phone and my desktop PC. (Phone for casual surfing of /newest and my desktop for commenting and submitting posts).

Desktop: bookmark

Phone: URL shortcut icon on home screen

Both are fine. I can't imagine an app would provide much more value, especially with the privacy cost.

Too much.

Sometimes.

Good luck.

(sent from my iPhone)

I don't like how the home page at http://news.ycombinator.com/ sorts by a combination of score and time-since-posting because that means that I end up scanning each entry (story title) over and over.

In contrast, if they were sorted strictly by time-since-posting, I would probably quickly be able to tell once my scan of the list reached the part of the list I had already seen.

Someone else (many years ago) had the same thought as what I wrote above, motivating him to create http://hckrnews.com/, which is mainly what I use to find stories to read. (I also use https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%s&sort=byDate to find stories to read.)

Materialistic Android App. Unfortunately it is not anymore in the Google Play Store. It's the best hackernews android app in my opinion. What android app do you use?

I use a combination of the following:

Browser:

1) news.ycombinator.com 2) daemonology.net/hn-daily 3) hckrnews.com 4) hn.premii.com 5) hn.algolia.com

iOS:

HACK for Hacker News Reader

RSS:

hnrss.github.io

Harmonic on android. Best by far from what I can find

HACK for iOS is the best client I’ve found on iOS. https://apps.apple.com/app/id1464477788

On desktop I use the website but install HNES extension to help with some of the formatting.

I follow the twitter feed, rarely click on anything but see topics go by and semi-remember them for later (or I sometimes open up the site right-away).

2-3 times a day I go to the site on a desktop browser. Scroll through the first 2-3 pages (logged in, standard view) and open a tab for the story and discussion. Work though these gradually.

Occasionally I open the site on my phone but find a pain to use it that way (and I'm not logged in).

Firefox (desktop and Android) with uBlock Origin list that hides the tee-vee news, blogspam, and off-topic garbage: https://pifke.org/hn.txt

Desktop: Website iOS: Octal

Because everyone else links to their preferred apps: https://apps.apple.com/se/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888...

Web.

On desktop, I use my own custom CSS hacks to restyle the site:

Dred's HN CSS Madhackery: <https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd>

Dred's HN CSS Madhackery -- Dark Mode: <https://pastebin.com/6PF3dCXH>

(Those are linked in my HN profile.)

Through materialistic app, it's no longer on google app but can be found on f-droid

Desktop browser with hastily written custom CSS (https://pastebin.com/CEjLKFar) and the "Dark Reader" add-on.

Own web client[0]. Click the date title for yesterday.

It was handy having all the SVB stories grouped separately.

[0] https://hackerer.news/

Currently using the "Glider"¹ client on Android. Pretty happy with it so far.

¹ https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/nl.viter.glider/

I just use safari on my phone

Hacki for Hacker News (Hacki is a simple noiseless Hacker News client that is just enough.) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jiaqifeng.hacki/

I really enjoy Hacki when mobile

Web mainly.. And glider for Android.

I created this(https://plaihn.vercel.app/) for myself specifically for mobile viewing as I wanted something decluttered compared to all the IOS apps that I’ve used before. Not saying they’re any less but I personally wanted something very simple. I wish to create a comment section within that as well in the future.

I use https://hn.buzzing.cc/ to browser Hacker News in both Chinese and English.

I use the Glider app, which runs great on GrapheneOS.