Hackers for Hacker News - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Hackers is the ultimate app for Hacker News. We focus on the reading experience, with a simple yet beautiful UI and clean typography. Navigate large comment threads with ease just by swiping left. Up vote posts and comments by swiping right.

Hacker News is a social news site about startups and technology.

# Features

• Beautiful typography focused UI with light and dark themes
• Login to your Hacker News account to vote on posts and comments with a swipe left
• Collapse and expand nested comments with a tap
• Collapse an entire comment thread with a swipe right
• Thumbnails for each post
• Universal iPhone and iPad app
• Blazing fast performance

Any feedback or questions, contact me at @weiran on Twitter, or raise an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/weiran/Hackers

Hackers is an open source project, check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/weiran/Hackers

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User Rating

4.63 out of 5

250 ratings in United Kingdom

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Almost perfect

Missing feature: replies!

Nice UI, but hugely frustrating scroll

When you’re scrolling comments it keeps opening the swipe left/right menu, meaning you need to be very careful with how you scroll thereby removing the focus from actually reading

Some reason couldn’t connect to Hacker News since last update…

Very good app, just some reason stopped connect to the Hacker News site…

Great app but it’s broken right now

It won’t load any results.

It’s not loading

Blank page

One big flaw

If you want to open an article’s comment page in a web browser (eg. to post a comment, bookmark it, etc), you have to go through a weirdly long series of manual steps: tap the share button, tap “Hacker News link”, and then wait several mysterious seconds (even on an iPhone 12 Pro) until the share options appear. Then you tap ‘Copy’, then manually open your browser and paste the link and visit the site. It’s very odd. And it’s even worse if you want to open a specific comment, as the app doesn’t offer a way to go straight to a comment, so you have to manually find the comment on the web after completing the above steps. It’s a great app in most other ways. I just find the above issue significantly annoying, to the point that I really resent using the app. I wonder if it’s a deliberate design decision aiming to reduce reactionary outrage comments, by forcing people to ‘take a breath’? If that’s the intent, I think it has the opposite effect on me, because I’m not taking a breath when I’m jumping through hoops.

Exactly how an iOS app should be made!

Love that it’s 100% native code. Great work. App is fast smooth and feels right at home on iOS

Simple but name is misleading

I’m looking for a more specific ‘Hacker’ or ‘Cyber security’ based news app to keep track of recent issues to learn with them and keep up to date as a whole. This platform seems to have a very broad selection of topics which are not in this field.

Good... but

I really like the design and usability of the app. However I just really wish there was a place where I could save submissions for reading later.

Where is best?

Would easily be the best HN app if it had the best feed!

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Ranking History

Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	Nigeria News	72
Top Free	Israel News	377
Top Free	Hong Kong News	458
Top Free	Dominican Republic News	488

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