Hacker News Client

This is probably the first Hacker News client on AppStore that uses the newly introduced official Firebase HN API. One of the cool features of the new API are updates pushed in real time. There’s no need to keep refreshing the client, as the number of points and the number of comments for each story are updated automatically. If you wish to reload the stories completely, simply pull to refresh.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
News	Free	Marcin Kmiec	iPhone, iPad, iPod

With its clean layout, you will definitely love the flat user interface. What's more, you can always adjust the comments' font size by going to iOS's Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Larger Text and dragging the slider.

Hacker News Client is completely open source. Feel free to contribute.

Reviews

App no longer works
1223465245433

Upon opening, get a error message saying that the app is unable to fetch data from the server. Also hasn't been updated to support iPhone X screen.

Great for it purpose
Bay-ish

Really appreciated everything this piece had to offer. Speed, reliability, and beautiful no-nonsense design. Still haven’t found a client that compares to the actual http platform itself. Thanks for the time, and best wishes.

Needs update for using full screen size on newer phones
engineer3003

This was my favorite hacker news app, but it needs a bit of TLC. On the iPhone X and newer phones it doesnt use the full screen size, and it started to lock up frequently for a few seconds, before it becomes responsive again. I will update this review again when these things are resolved. I’d like to get back to giving this app 5 stars!

Nice but
ArmanAsh

Need to change the comment system. The entire point of HN is to read comments and this app makes the experience pretty bad.

Good client, buggy sharing?
k748501

Good client, but sharing to Pocket crashes it? Pocket is my primary bookmarks service; so it’s pretty important.

Freezes all the time since iOS 11.3 or so
710 Skyline

Almost unusable. Read a couple of articles, force stop, back to step 1.

Almost perfect but crashes in a painful place
Footie10023

Love the client. Makes it easy to get into HN. I use “send to OneNote” to archive the interesting notes, but recently HN crashes every time I click OneNote and it builds the screen to send to OneNote.

Broken: “something went wrong” always shows up
ghost_god

I always get “something went wrong” error prompt when I try to launch app or do a pull to refresh. On iPhoneX, latest iOS and version of app.

It works
decadently

Very well supported application with no visible bugs. I would pay for a search feature that integrates Algolia. It’d make this application a much more powerful!