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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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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isn't working in Google Chrome Dev channel.

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.

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.

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

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

well done mate :)

Out of curiousity, why did you reply to me?

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.

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.

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

Precisely the conclusion that I jumped to.

I shall post a non ajax version of this tomorrow

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

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

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

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