HACK for Hacker News Reader
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| News | Free | Pranoy Chowdhury | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
- Login or Register your Hacker News account
- Comments are presented in nested threads
- Tap a comment to collapse that thread
- Swipe left or right on stories and comments to upvote and favorite
- Long press a story, link or comment to share
- iPad supports split view
- Landscape and Portrait support
- 3D touch for peek, pop support
- Tap the bottom button to scroll to the next root comment in the thread. Long press it to go to the previous one
- All known hacker news endpoints - News, front page, Ask HN, Show HN, Show HN Newest, classic, active, best stories, best comments, new stories, new comments, noob stories, noob comments, jobs, over 100-500 points
- Tap the reply button on a story or comment to comment using your account
- Browse top 100 leader accounts
- Browse stories from a specific site, user or date
- Powerful search (powered by Algolia API) - use @date to sort by date, #story to filter for stories, #comments to filter for comments, #author_username to filter by user etc. These tags can be separated by commas. Refer to https://hn.algolia.com/api for more tags.
- Dark mode - both pure black and gray mode
- Low contrast text mode to make the text not be pure white #FFFFFF
- Many color choices for customization
- 10 Font choices
- Ability to change font sizes, padding etc to make the layout as compact as you like!
- Threaded comments with color bar to maintain visual orientation
- Colored usernames helps in easy reading of story titles
- Articles open in Safari view with setting to automatically open in "readability" mode
- Tap the domain in a story to see all stories from that site
- Tap the username in a story or comment to go to the user profile
- Browse your submitted stories and comments, favorited stories and comments, upvoted stories and comments
- No Ads
All stories and comments are via Algolia API and Hacker News API:
https://news.ycombinator.com/
https://hn.algolia.com/api
https://github.com/HackerNews/API
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I offer an ad free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others!
If you have any feedback or feature requests, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
Reviews
The best I have come across
David C.
Excellent app, very feature rich. The author keeps refining, and adding features to it. Highly recommended!
I love this reader!
Sam.Myers
I’ve been using/loving it on iPhone for about 3 months. I recently tried download on my iPad and it didn’t come up in the App Store. I found it by changing my filter to “iPhone only.” I downloaded it and it seems to word just fine on the iPad as well! I don’t know what validation is required but the author might do well to get it listed for iPad also. Thanks for a great app and the hard work. HN: nemosaltat
Best HN client
BradGess
Great on iPhone and iPad. My only gripe is I want this app on macOS already.
Great support from the developer
SteveSpence
My go to reader for HN. App was broken by a recent change and they had a fix out within bours.
Fantastic, fast, friendly!
Michael_McDonald
The HN website is easy enough to use on mobile, but Hack honestly makes it so much more enjoyable. The customization is insane and fits my love of having a bespoke experience. Developer is active and exceptionally fast to respond. If you use HN and like checking it out in your phone you’re doing a disservice not browsing it via Hack.
Would be 5 stars if it worked again
wittywiko
I absolutely loved this app, but it’s no longer loading any of the content.
Responsive developer
josuewithdds
There was an app-breaking bug due to web html structure change and the developer responded and fixed it promptly. Great app and appreciative of the timeliness of the developer, thanks for the awesome app :-)
Fantastic iPad support
tusing
A beautiful and clean Hacker News reader with fantastic support for the iPad. Can’t recommend this enough!
