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A powerful Hacker News reader.

Published by: Snap Web Studios
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The Ultimate Hacker News App!
Dive into the latest startup, technology, programming, and science news with the ultimate app for browsing Y Combinator's Hacker News.
Built for Speed and Customizability
Designed from the ground up, this app offers a fast, seamless reading experience with extensive customizability.
Optimized for iPhone and iPad
Carefully crafted for both iPhone and iPad, the app is packed with features to enhance your reading experience:
- Fast and Simple: Browse Hacker News feeds and threaded comments swiftly, ensuring you stay updated with everything happening.
- Sync Across Devices: Favorite, read, or hide stories and keep your activity in sync across devices, thanks to iCloud. Your data stays private and secure.
- Organize Your Way: Create custom groups to easily save stories by topic. Keep all your programming topics together, and all your science topics in one place, accessible on every device.
- Lightning Fast Search: Quickly find any post, even those you mentioned to a friend days ago.
- Highly Customizable: Choose between light and dark modes, select from eleven different color themes, and enjoy beautifully designed icons by Michael Flarup & Matthew Skiles. Customize your reading experience further by selecting your preferred browser, adjusting the appearance of read stories, and more.
- AI-Powered Summaries: Get quick summaries of stories with AI powered by OpenAI. Perfect for when you only need the gist.
- Ad-Free Reading: Skip the ads and read a clean, markdown-formatted version of articles.
- Time-Saving Features: Know how long articles will take to read with time estimates.
- Powerful Gestures: Use swipe gestures to quickly favorite, hide, and add stories to your groups.
- iPad Keyboard Shortcuts: Easily manage favorites, hiding, and adding to groups with keyboard shortcuts.
- Home Screen Widgets: Customize your Home Screen with widgets of all sizes, showing your favorite feeds and the latest stories at a glance.
- Convenient Share Sheet Action: Open Hacker News links from any app with our share sheet action. Just tap “Open in Hacker News.”
- Privacy Focused: No ads, no tracking, and no data storage. Your privacy is paramount.
- Support the App: Keep the app alive with a tip or leave a review. Every bit helps!
Enjoy the best Hacker News experience on your Apple devices today!
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$4.99
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$0.99
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$2.99
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$19.99

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Hacker News FAQ

  • Is Hacker News free?

    Yes, Hacker News is free to download, however it contains in-app purchases or subscription offerings.

  • Is Hacker News legit?

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  • How much does Hacker News cost?

    Hacker News has several in-app purchases/subscriptions, the average in-app price is $7.24.

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User Rating

4.71 out of 5

31 ratings in United States

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Hacker News Reviews

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Ludditemanxcv on

United States

Great app, I use it all the time, but I do have a suggestion - under groups, the “read” section takes too long to load, particularly if you have over 1000 to 2000 previously read articles. It’ll be nice if this section could only load the last 10 to 20 articles that have been read, with a button to load more if necessary. When you open and switch to another app, the Hacker News will reset, and sometimes you lose track of where you were you were. The “read” section is a good way to quickly get back to what you were looking at, but again the issue is that it will take at times 30 seconds to a minute to load.

Well-made app but doesn’t respect browser choice

BigBadUduDaddy on

United States

Regardless whether this app is set to use Safari or In-App Safari it opens articles in In-App Safari, which is a bit annoying since In-App Safari doesn’t allow certain extensions nor does it add to my browser history. Would also be nice if it supported other browsers. I’m posting here because support is through Twitter which I don’t use.

Great HN reader

Zealottz on

United States

The best HN ever used. Would be nice to be able to export saved items

Using it everyday

Haoya Li on

United States

Very delightful using it!

Polished HN Client Missing Login

teeny tiny sloth on

United States

This is probably the most polished HN client for iOS but it’s missing user login so you can’t upvote or comment. If it has that it would be the best in the App Store.

By far the best HN app.

Drudois on

United States

By far the best hacker news app. The summary feature is amazing. BUT it lacks login. I still need a second HN app where Iogin and posts from. Really wish login would be supported.

The best HN client for free

alexandr1us on

United States

So this client has all the features paid HN clients have with snappier design and functionality. Thanks developer!

Simply love it

viveksivai7 on

United States

I have used a lot of HN apps and I feel like this one might stick .. it has all the things I look for - no ads - fast read/ summarize options .. only thing that lacks is login option

Sleek HN Reader

Hshshabvshxjanvshx on

United States

This is to HN what Apollo is to Reddit. With tons of customization possible, it’s tough to beat. Keep up the great work!

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Hacki for Hacker News
All you need for Hacker News
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HN: Hacker News Reader
Native Reader for Hacker News
HN Reader by Y Combinator
HackerNewt for Hacker News
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