HACK for YC Hacker News Reader

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Published by: Pranoy Chowdhury
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HACK for YC's Hacker News is the most beautiful and easy way to read about the latest tech, startup and STEM news.
- No Ads. No subscriptions.
- Login or Register your Hacker News account
- PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post
- Supported on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- 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
- Ability to submit new posts including drafts
- Long press a story, link or comment to share
- iPad supports split view
- On iPads, you can drag a story / comment / story's image (link) to open it in safari in split view. This is useful for when you are viewing the app in split view / multitasking and like opening the link / story / comment in a browser side by side.
- Landscape and Portrait support
- 3D touch for peek, pop support
- Home screen 3D touch shortcuts
- Hide posts from the feed
- 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
- Submit posts, reply, comment using your HN account
- Browse top 100 leader accounts
- Browse stories from a specific site, user or date
- Search in comments and usernames! Search is case and diacritic insensitive and ignores punctuations. Search uses an CONTAINS, OR operation if multiple words are typed.
- Can select / highlight the comment/post title text for lookup/copy/translate etc iOS native operations.
- 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
- Many color choices & color picker for customization
- App icons in variety of colours for light and dark mode
- 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
- 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
- Archive: View an archive of the post website. archive.is, archive.org & google cache.
- Share comment as image
- Articles can be opened in built in safari or 3rd party browsers. Supports Brave, Firefox, Firefox Focus, Orion, Opera Touch, Dolphin, DuckDuckGo, iCab Mobile, Microsoft Edge and Chrome. Go to settings > Disable the "Use in-app Safari" setting > tap that row to change the default browser.
- I run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors & icons.
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 and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you!
If you have any feedback or feature requests, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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In-Apps

Kind Tip
USD 2.99
Nice Tip
USD 1.99
Amazing Tip
USD 6.99
Generous Tip
USD 4.99
Godzilla Tip
USD 9.99
Hack Premium
USD 5.99

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User Rating

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tigst 123 on

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Already know a lot of this before published

Bledsoeb on

United States

I need the MIT people to get ahold of me about Stanford cuz I am [0]

Would give 6 stars if I could

anbardoi on

United States

The most comprehensive Hacker News reader on iOS. If you pay the one-time premium fee, you quite literally own this app, and can change it to your liking. Everything is customizable. Also, FILTERS! So tired of accidentally clicking nytimes.com/bloomberg.com/etc. links when I know they're just gonna paywall me. In the settings, you can add domain filters so certain site's won't even pop up!

Hitting all the right notes

Jinhe L on

United States

Good customizability and small details for ease of use. Just the right style of presentation for getting my information diet from HN. The app author is also very responsive to bug/feature feedback. Strongly recommended!

I use it every day

pastorhudson on

United States

I love this app. I use it every day.

The best HN client

odajay on

United States

I collected all HN clients over the years and nothing get close to HACK. If I may ask, the only addition that would make it even better is highlighting text so that I could export elements to Readwise.

Best app

Jbboyz on

United States

I love your app, gr8, r8 8/8.

The best iOS HN client

Mike Sutherland 619 on

United States

Only app I’ve reviewed. This one is good. It’s really clean, intuitive, & full featured, and it is ad free. Honestly this is how iOS apps should be. Absolutely an upgrade to the website on a mobile device. EDIT. I have been reading HN more lately, and I thought “this app is great, it feels wrong not to buy it considering how much I use it.” So I went to purchase it, and… I ALREADY BOUGHT IT some time ago. Yes people, it is that good.

The best HackerNews App, period

Abushawish on

United States

Feels modern, but keeps the simple vibe of the site. My favorite by far.

Just made the switch to this and happy

Thomasskis on

United States

I’ve been lurking HN for over a decade now and I’d been using one of the older iOS apps for it. It was simple enough. But this app is significantly better, it feels more like it’s “mine” because of the customisations. After lurking for so long, I find this app motivates me to contribute. Totally worth upgrading to pro, even if you don’t need the features. I appreciate the devs 🤓

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