I use MiniHack, which is mind-blowingly good now that the update came through. Full comment posting on mobile and tablet, upvoting, flagging, everything.
Agree, but the current version omits all numerical point data and the repeating #comments 30 times uses alot of pixel space. I'm wondering if there's not a hack or abstraction that might benefit the layout.
That website doesn't have the same thread ordering as the homepage on the real thing, or it seems to be delayed... if you pull up both in parallel you'll see it quite obviously...
Hmm, just says "Loading..." for me on my antique old setup (original Galaxy S, Opera) - and frankly the main site actually works fine. In fact none of these alternatives look better imho, and I like to see how many comments are already up before opening an article - something many of them leave out.
Note that it is probable that Hacker News / News.YC itself will in the relatively near future have a more "responsive" design: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/96
Verdana is a bit dated (it still looks good, but it's very reminiscent of early 2000s web design, as it was one of the few fonts that looked good without antialiasing on a 640x480 or 800x600 display), but I'd like to ask this of whoever gets tasked with refreshing HN's typography in the future: stick with a humanist sans serif. Don't go with Helvetica or another geometric sans serif.
Honestly, I feel like they could satisfy 90% of mobile users with just a few lines of CSS to make it a bit more responsive. Having to zoom, pan, and squint on my iPhone is so frustrating.
When I click the hyperlink, I jump to another web site, although in desktop HN work will, for mobile devices is too bad. In my way, it propose a new mechanism to translate the other web page to adopt the mobile devices, do in app.
I currently use this site for hn mobile: http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/