However, I have to be honest and say the lack of comment thread caching is a bit disappointing, because most people here read the site for the comments and discussions as much as they do the original stories.
Its a webservice that concatenates the top 25 hacker news links in one page as iframes (the ones that allow it). I usually load the page 1-2 minutes before getting on the underground. It has minimum functionality, but works for my needs. I use it mostly on Chrome mobile browser.
I thought some of you might find it useful.
Does 25 iframes cause any slowdown? Do you have any tips to keep performance up, like setting display=none to iframes out of view ? I'll test all this soon, I just would appreciate any knowledge you've gained along these lines :)
Take a look at my repo for how it's implemented; it is not the most responsive site in the world.
What I can tell you is: 1) display=none is a good idea 2) Certain sites have the HTTP header 'X-Frame-Options': BLOCK' or something along those lines. Modern web-browsers wont render those pages in iframes 3) It's a good idea to add sandbox="allow-forms allow-scripts" on every iframe to stop top-level redirects.
I have noticed that it is quite heavy, and my phone's browser handles this for me under-the-hood by saving pages to disk when the iframe is collapsed (I think. I haven't actually tested this but the performance would suggest that this is the case.)
Edit: to note that I loaded this locally as file://...index.html and you can't publish something like this as an aggregated list due to CLs policies for such use of their content.