HACK for Hacker News YC Reader
Best Hacker News app for tech
Free · In‑App Purchases
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
- Setting to block AI posts on HN.
- 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.
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 am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK.
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more This app is the best app for hackernews that I’ve tried on iOS and I’ve tried a couple of them. It’s so good I paid for the pro version and it’s even better with the latest update. I really like all the settings/options. One suggestion I would have though would be adding a right swipe to go back to the previous page(basically the opposite of the left swipe). Apollo has this enabled by default. Another suggestion would be adding the ability to swipe away the long press options or hiding those options behind an overflow menu because I always find myself accidentally long pressing comments and bringing up the menu.
Developer Response Today's update adds a button to the posts and comments to show the overflow menu. There's also 2 settings which you can use to disable the long press menu.As for right swipe to go back, I will add that in another update, need to do some research. Thanks.
This app is the best app for hackernews that I’ve tried on iOS and I’ve tried a couple of them. It’s so good I paid for the pro version and it’s even better with the latest update. I really like all the settings/options. One suggestion I would have though would be adding a right swipe to go back to the previous page(basically the opposite of the left swipe). Apollo has this enabled by default. Another suggestion would be adding the ability to swipe away the long press options or hiding those options behind an overflow menu because I always find myself accidentally long pressing comments and bringing up the menu.
Today's update adds a button to the posts and comments to show the overflow menu. There's also 2 settings which you can use to disable the long press menu.As for right swipe to go back, I will add that in another update, need to do some research. Thanks.
No purchase needed, no ads. Probably will pay the $5 to support the dev, though, because this kind of functionality is rare for ios apps without either ads or in-app purchases. Quite the hidden gem. Lots of settings to choose from. I especially like being able to select the text of a comment to copy by long-pressing on a comment, and from there, there are a lot of options, including copying the text as a whole, or selecting a certain part of the text as it pops up with the options. Now will look for other apps made by this dev! Edit: decided to purchase, it’s worth it
Developer Response Thank you for the kind feedback! Glad you are supporting me :)
No purchase needed, no ads. Probably will pay the $5 to support the dev, though, because this kind of functionality is rare for ios apps without either ads or in-app purchases. Quite the hidden gem. Lots of settings to choose from. I especially like being able to select the text of a comment to copy by long-pressing on a comment, and from there, there are a lot of options, including copying the text as a whole, or selecting a certain part of the text as it pops up with the options. Now will look for other apps made by this dev! Edit: decided to purchase, it’s worth it
Thank you for the kind feedback! Glad you are supporting me :)
I continue to be impressed by this app. What started out as just a beautiful wrapper for HN has continued to evolve into easily one of the best experiences on iOS for consuming feeds, á la Apollo for Reddit. I have also had great success reaching out to the developer, as others mention. I recently noticed that there is a Share as Image feature, which is one of my biggest uses in Apollo - wow! Works great in HACK too! Easily worth the download and the purchase for premium. A+. Thanks Pranoy!
I continue to be impressed by this app. What started out as just a beautiful wrapper for HN has continued to evolve into easily one of the best experiences on iOS for consuming feeds, á la Apollo for Reddit. I have also had great success reaching out to the developer, as others mention. I recently noticed that there is a Share as Image feature, which is one of my biggest uses in Apollo - wow! Works great in HACK too! Easily worth the download and the purchase for premium. A+. Thanks Pranoy!
No doubt this is the best HN app I’ve used but it doesn’t hold a candle to something like Apollo which I consider(ed) the gold standard for a link aggregator client.Tap targets are way too small, must but almost half of what the HIG recommends. I find it infuriating to try to tap the “…” or upvote button only to have it collapse the thread and rinse and repeat 3-10 times before it works.Reply notifications and logged in status in general is extremely buggy. I randomly get logged out so I’ll be browsing, go to upvote, and get a generic error. It’s at this point I’ll notice the “Downvote” option is missing but the app will still show me logged in. Sometimes the only fix is to kill the app and/or log out/in again. Similarly, clicking on the bell/notification icon will randomly tell me “You haven’t enabled reply notifications” which is a setting I’ve never toggled off, yet it gets toggled off on me without any action on my part.The app works well overall but interacting with posts and the inconsistent/buggy auth status drive me bonkers.
Developer Response Regarding the buttons being too small, you can change that by increasing the “metadata font size” in the settings screen > “font sizes, compactness and padding”. Set it to something like 4 and I think it should be better.Regarding being logged out and notifications getting disabled, that sounds like a keychain issue on the phone. Has your phone had a repair recently? Email me at pran@pranapps.com if you have questions.
No doubt this is the best HN app I’ve used but it doesn’t hold a candle to something like Apollo which I consider(ed) the gold standard for a link aggregator client.Tap targets are way too small, must but almost half of what the HIG recommends. I find it infuriating to try to tap the “…” or upvote button only to have it collapse the thread and rinse and repeat 3-10 times before it works.Reply notifications and logged in status in general is extremely buggy. I randomly get logged out so I’ll be browsing, go to upvote, and get a generic error. It’s at this point I’ll notice the “Downvote” option is missing but the app will still show me logged in. Sometimes the only fix is to kill the app and/or log out/in again. Similarly, clicking on the bell/notification icon will randomly tell me “You haven’t enabled reply notifications” which is a setting I’ve never toggled off, yet it gets toggled off on me without any action on my part.The app works well overall but interacting with posts and the inconsistent/buggy auth status drive me bonkers.
Regarding the buttons being too small, you can change that by increasing the “metadata font size” in the settings screen > “font sizes, compactness and padding”. Set it to something like 4 and I think it should be better.Regarding being logged out and notifications getting disabled, that sounds like a keychain issue on the phone. Has your phone had a repair recently? Email me at pran@pranapps.com if you have questions.
- Updated to the latest iOS 27 SDK. Fixed bugs where the "Open in HACK" safari extension, URL scheme, and app icon shortcut weren't working.
- This update hides the "time" icon on the story list. This helps reduce text wrapping and thus allows more stories to be shown. There are two new settings to toggle this behavior for stories and comments.
- When full screen swiping, the app will now try to prevent accidental swiping to upvote on a story due to conflicting gestures.
- Added a new "See Blocked Posts" option to menu. Useful if you have the "Reduce AI posts" setting on.
- Updated the UI for the pagination button to match with rest of the app. Previous update added a setting to disable infite scroll aka auto-paginate to load more content. When disabled, shows a "Load more" button when scrolled near the bottom. Reduces addictive doomscrolling behaviors.)
- Previous update also added another highly requested setting: "Reduce AI posts". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to block any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords. Fixed a typo in this setting name.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
183 Sep 24
- Updated to the latest iOS 27 SDK. Fixed bugs where the "Open in HACK" safari extension, URL scheme, and app icon shortcut weren't working.
- This update hides the "time" icon on the story list. This helps reduce text wrapping and thus allows more stories to be shown. There are two new settings to toggle this behavior for stories and comments.
- When full screen swiping, the app will now try to prevent accidental swiping to upvote on a story due to conflicting gestures.
- Added a new "See Blocked Posts" option to menu. Useful if you have the "Reduce AI posts" setting on.
- Updated the UI for the pagination button to match with rest of the app. Previous update added a setting to disable infite scroll aka auto-paginate to load more content. When disabled, shows a "Load more" button when scrolled near the bottom. Reduces addictive doomscrolling behaviors.)
- Previous update also added another highly requested setting: "Reduce AI posts". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to block any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
182 Sep 22
- Updated to latest iOS 27 SDK.
- This update hides the "time" icon on the story list. This helps reduce text wrapping and thus allows more stories to be shown. There are two new settings to toggle this behavior for stories and comments.
- When full screen swiping, the app will now try to prevent accidental swiping to upvote on a story due to conflicting gestures.
- Added a new "See Blocked Posts" option to menu. Useful if you have the "Reduce AI posts" setting on.
- Updated the UI for the pagination button to match with rest of the app. Previous update added a setting to disable infite scroll aka auto-paginate to load more content. When disabled, shows a "Load more" button when scrolled near the bottom. Reduces addictive doomscrolling behaviors.)
- Previous update also added another highly requested setting: "Reduce AI posts". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to block any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords.
- Fixed bugs where the "Open in HACK" safari extension, URL scheme, and app icon shortcut weren't working.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
179 Sep 21
- Updated to latest iOS 27 SDK.
- This update hides the "time" icon on the story list. This helps reduce text wrapping and thus allows more stories to be shown. There are two new settings to toggle this behavior for stories and comments.
- When full screen swiping, the app will now try to prevent accidental swiping to upvote on a story due to conflicting gestures.
- Added a new "See Blocked Posts" option to menu. Useful if you have the "Reduce AI posts" setting on.
- Updated the UI for the pagination button to match with rest of the app. Previous update added a setting to disable infite scroll aka auto-paginate to load more content. When disabled, shows a "Load more" button when scrolled near the bottom. Reduces addictive doomscrolling behaviors.)
- Previous update also added another highly requested setting: "Reduce AI posts". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to block any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
178 Sep 20
- Replaced the text "Load more" button with an icon. Previous update added a setting to disable infite scroll aka auto-paginate to load more content. When disabled, shows a "Load more" button when scrolled near the bottom. Reduces addictive doomscrolling behaviors.)
- Improved the keywords list for targeting AI post titles. Previous update also added another highly requested setting: "Block post titles containing AI keywords". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to filter out any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
174 Sep 17
- Added a setting to disable infite scroll aka auto-paginate to load more content. When disabled, shows a \"Load more\" button when scrolled near the bottom. Reduces addictive doomscrolling behaviors.)
- Previous update also added another highly requested setting: "Block post titles containing AI keywords". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to filter out any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
173 Sep 16
- Fixed bug where time, upvote, favorite, and reply wasn't working (changes to HN website breaking my parser).
- Added a highly requested setting: "Block AI posts". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to filter out any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords.
- Fixed bug where some links in text were not parsing correctly.
- The "Account" option now directly takes to HN website to authenticate as a more reliable solution.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
172 Sep 15
- Added a highly requested setting: "Block AI posts". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to filter out any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords.
- Fixed bug where upvote, favorite, and reply wasn't working (changes to HN website breaking my parser).
- Fixed bug where some links in text were not parsing correctly.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
171 Sep 13
- Added a highly requested setting: "Block post titles containing AI keywords". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to filter out any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords.
- Fixed bug where upvote, favorite, and reply wasn't working (changes to HN website breaking my parser).
- Fixed bug where some links in text were not parsing correctly.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
170 Sep 12
Thank you for supporting me. Here's what's changed:
- Fixed a bug where time wasn't showing on posts and comments (consequence of changes to HN page breaking the parser).
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
165 Aug 28
Thank you for supporting me. Here's what's changed:
- Fixed a bug where the History page would freeze for a few seconds before loading if history was long.
- Fixed a bug where the IAP button text was hard to read when light accent color was in use.
- Scrollable text in context menu now fades at the edges if needed. Looks better imo.
- Tiny update to the default liquid glass app icon.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
164 Aug 21
Thank you for supporting me. Here's what's new:
- As requested by users, added a "Translate Language" option to context menu on comments and posts for easy translation. This is only for iOS and iPad. Not available on Mac.
- Note that a previous update fixed a critical bug which would intermittently cause the app to entirely freeze, stop responding to touch, and require restarting the app. To fix it, entirely rewrote the "Full Screen Swipe Back" feature to use newer APIs. If this bug still persists, please email me.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
163 Jul 25
Thank you for supporting me. Here's what's new:
- Sometimes for logged out users, HN website reports an error on some pages. The app should now show that error.
- Fixed a bug where thick title font setting wasn't working for some fonts.
- Note that a previous update fixed a critical bug which would intermittently cause the app to entirely freeze, stop responding to touch, and require restarting the app. To fix it, entirely rewrote the "Full Screen Swipe Back" feature to use newer APIs. If this bug still persists, please email me.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
162 Jul 22
Thank you for supporting me. Here's what's new:
- Fixed a bug where thick title font setting wasn't working for some fonts.
- Note that a previous update fixed a critical bug which would intermittently cause the app to entirely freeze, stop responding to touch, and require restarting the app. To fix it, entirely rewrote the "Full Screen Swipe Back" feature to use newer APIs. If this bug still persists, please email me.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
161 Jul 20
Thank you for supporting me. Here's what's new:
- Upon request by few users, added a new setting to keep screen on while idle. This is on by default.
- Fixed a bug where the favicon image backgrounds weren't obeying theme changes.
- Added a subtle border around the favicon images.
- Added Archives option when long pressing links in comments. Now you can easily access archive.org versions of those links.
- Note that previous update fixed a critical bug which would intermittently cause the app to entirely freeze, stop responding to touch, and require restarting the app. To fix it, entirely rewrote the "Full Screen Swipe Back" feature to use newer APIs. If this bug still persists, please email me.
- Fixed a bug where the share extension to open HN links in app were not working.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
159 Jul 15
- Fixed a critical bug which would intermittently cause the app to entirely freeze, stop responding to touch, and require restarting the app. Sorry about this bug.
- Fixed a bug where the share extension to open HN links in app were not working.
- Entirely rewrote the "Full Screen Swipe Back" feature to use more modern APIs.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. 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 the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
156 Jun 17
- Urgent bug fix for IAP issue.
- Bug fix for layout issue.
- Added a new "Export Comments as JSON" option in the context menu on posts. This exports all nested comments on the post as a JSON which you could pass to another app/Shortcuts for AI analysis/summarization. Note that this option will become available in the menu once all comments of the post are downloaded & parsed (the scroll to next thread button at bottom becomes visible).
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. 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 the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
155 May 31
- Added a new "Export Comments as JSON" option in the context menu on posts. This exports all nested comments on the post as a JSON which you could pass to another app/Shortcuts for AI analysis/summarization. Note that this option will become available in the menu once all comments of the post are downloaded & parsed (the scroll to next thread button at bottom becomes visible).
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. 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 the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
154 May 26
- Fixed a bug where the header buttons were not showing upon scrolling up
- Fixed layout issues on iPad when using Split view
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. 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 the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
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153 May 18
- Bug fixes for new SDK including Liquid Glass
- Fixed a bug where on iPads running iOS 26, buttons were going behind the new traffic control buttons.
- As requested, added a button to the search screen which shows the advanced search guide
- Fixed a bug where exporting history as CSV on iPads was crashing
- As requested, added a new setting allowing long pressing a comment to collapse root comment
- Fixed a bug where the ellipsis/menu button (...) wasn't showing the context menu and collapsing comment instead
- Improved legibility for text color for monospaced code blocks, metadata, and menu buttons
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. 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 the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
151 Mar 24
- Bug fixes for new SDK including Liquid Glass
- Fixed a bug where on iPads running iOS 26, buttons were going behind the new traffic control buttons.
- As requested, added a button to the search screen which shows the advanced search guide
- Fixed a bug where exporting history as CSV on iPads was crashing
- As requested, added a new setting allowing long pressing a comment to collapse root comment
- Improved legibility for text color for monospaced code blocks, metadata, and menu buttons
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. 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 the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
150 Mar 24
- Fixed a bug where changing font sizes was not working.
- Updated app to new SDK including Liquid Glass.
- I understand not everyone is a fan of liquid glass. So, added a setting to disable it and revert back to old blurs.
- Added support for liquid glass icon and a setting to disable it which lets you use the old alternate icons.
- Improved legibility for text color for monospaced code blocks, metadata, and menu buttons.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. 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 the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
146 10/20/2025
- Updated app to iOS 26 SDK including Liquid Glass.
- I understand not everyone is a fan of liquid glass. So, added a setting to disable it and revert back to old blurs.
- Added support for liquid glass icon and a setting to disable it which lets you use the old alternate icons.
- Improved legibility for text color for monospaced code blocks, metadata, and menu buttons.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. 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 the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
145 10/12/2025
- Fixed a bug where the contextual menu had extra space at bottom of text.
- Added a new setting "Show What's New in Update popup" to disable the popup.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. 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 the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
141 08/27/2025
- Fixed a bug where some YouTube links were not opening in app.
- YouTube links now open in YouTube app by default.
- Added a new setting "Open links in YouTube App" to disable the behavior.
- New screenshots for App Store.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. 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 the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
140 07/15/2025
- Updated to the latest iOS 27 SDK. Fixed bugs where the "Open in HACK" safari extension, URL scheme, and app icon shortcut weren't working.
- This update hides the "time" icon on the story list. This helps reduce text wrapping and thus allows more stories to be shown. There are two new settings to toggle this behavior for stories and comments.
- When full screen swiping, the app will now try to prevent accidental swiping to upvote on a story due to conflicting gestures.
- Added a new "See Blocked Posts" option to menu. Useful if you have the "Reduce AI posts" setting on.
- Updated the UI for the pagination button to match with rest of the app. Previous update added a setting to disable infite scroll aka auto-paginate to load more content. When disabled, shows a "Load more" button when scrolled near the bottom. Reduces addictive doomscrolling behaviors.)
- Previous update also added another highly requested setting: "Reduce AI posts". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to block any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords. Fixed a typo in this setting name.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
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