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Weiran Zhang
Personal blog · weiranzhang.com/blog · on HN as weiranprogrammingculture
Weiran Zhang's personal blog at weiranzhang.com covers programming and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Show HN: Hackers - my iPhone app for Hacker News”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an Ask HN thread about iOS apps for HN comments. The post describes one developer's approach to collapsing comment threads, which keeps each comment at full width however deep it nests.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Weiran Zhang's personal website
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Hackers - my iPhone app for Hacker News2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-03-01
What Hacker News says?
I haven't really found any good apps for that. After implementing this: http://imgur.com/55D3mXH in an app of mine I found this guys way of implementing it: http://weiranzhang.com/blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app... I think his is quite a bit better in multiple aspects, primarily because you retain a full width view of the comment regardless of how many tiers deep you are.
Comment linking /blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app-for-iphone
on “Ask HN: Decent HN iOS app that allows collapsing of comment threads?”Submitted Only Apple and Google are skating to where the puck is going as a story · 51 points
HN discussionHi HN, Developer here. Hackers is my first project and I'd love to get some feedback from HN. I decided to focus on reading HN as that's what I mainly do on my iPhone. Hopefully that's enough differentiation from the excellent news:yc app that already exists. A few key features: * Typography focused design * Collapsable comments * Read/unread badge * Instapaper mobilizer I wrote a little about Hackers on my blog: ht…
Comment linking /blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app-for-iphone
on “Show HN: Hackers - my iPhone app for Hacker News”Submitted Apple's mini lessons as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Hackers - my iPhone app for Hacker News as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted NSClippy - Clippy on iOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Apple Talk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Google Needs 'Don't Be Evil' as a story · 1 points
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