Hacki for Hacker News

Name: Hacki for Hacker News
Rating: 4.6 (32 reviews)
Author: Jiaqi Feng

Open-source Hacker News client

Free · Designed for iPad

32 Ratings
Ages

16+
Years
Category

News
Developer

Jiaqi Feng
Language

EN
English
Size

42.9
MB

An open-source Hacker News client. Features: • Log in using your Hacker News account. • Browse stories from various categories. • Search for stories. • Submit stories. • Pin stories. • Mark stories as favorite. • Leave comments. • Collapse comments. • View parent comments without scrolling up. • View and participate in polls. • Browse comments and stories you have posted. • Vote on comments or stories. • Get in-app notification when there is new reply to your stories or comments. • Download stories and comments for offline reading. • Pick up where you left off. • Synced favorites and pins across devices. • Launch from system share sheet. • And more...

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

32 Ratings

Excellent Hacker News Client
06/07/2024

Anon.iOS
Overall: Clean UI, quick to load, and has adequate customizability.To improve: Minor bug fixes for various issues—all stories appearing twice, cache size ballooning (maybe include a max?), etc.
Excellent Hacker News Client
06/07/2024

Anon.iOS

Overall: Clean UI, quick to load, and has adequate customizability.To improve: Minor bug fixes for various issues—all stories appearing twice, cache size ballooning (maybe include a max?), etc.
Please do not force tutorials
01/17/2025

Chet Blackwell
A nice app tarnished by the assumption I want to be forced to use a tutorial when I first open the app to explore it. The audience for this app must skew highly technical. I would be shocked if most users need this level of hand holding. Forcing me to tap the button the tutorial highlights is awful. I just want to explore your app in my own time! Make tutorial mode optional on first launch so I can opt out. Just awful first UX impression, "welcome user, I am so sure you are incompetent with apps that you must tap along with me as I guide you through features and force you to interact whether you need it or not!". YUCK. Also, forcing me directly to login on an app like this makes me suspicious of the developer's intentions. I never blindly trust my credentials to a new app especially one with so few users. The app is probably trustworthy, but "tutorial mode" begs the question of why the developer thinks the most important thing to do, before you can even try the app, is to push user login. Hacker news website is perfectly enjoyable without login. In fact, there is little reason to login unless you want to participate in the site. A very nicely laid out app that is very usable despite the nanny like hand hold that is forced on you.---------Response to developer: I guess everyone is different. Catering a hacker news client to people who can't navigate a simple ios app is an interesting choice. I expect this behavior in other apps, just disappointed to see it forced on me with zero option to escape until i tap where you tell me. Other apps usually let you quit tutorials if you want to. Is it too difficult to make the tutorial optional?

Developer Response
But it’s provocative, it gets people going!
Please do not force tutorials
01/17/2025

Chet Blackwell

A nice app tarnished by the assumption I want to be forced to use a tutorial when I first open the app to explore it. The audience for this app must skew highly technical. I would be shocked if most users need this level of hand holding. Forcing me to tap the button the tutorial highlights is awful. I just want to explore your app in my own time! Make tutorial mode optional on first launch so I can opt out. Just awful first UX impression, "welcome user, I am so sure you are incompetent with apps that you must tap along with me as I guide you through features and force you to interact whether you need it or not!". YUCK. Also, forcing me directly to login on an app like this makes me suspicious of the developer's intentions. I never blindly trust my credentials to a new app especially one with so few users. The app is probably trustworthy, but "tutorial mode" begs the question of why the developer thinks the most important thing to do, before you can even try the app, is to push user login. Hacker news website is perfectly enjoyable without login. In fact, there is little reason to login unless you want to participate in the site. A very nicely laid out app that is very usable despite the nanny like hand hold that is forced on you.---------Response to developer: I guess everyone is different. Catering a hacker news client to people who can't navigate a simple ios app is an interesting choice. I expect this behavior in other apps, just disappointed to see it forced on me with zero option to escape until i tap where you tell me. Other apps usually let you quit tutorials if you want to. Is it too difficult to make the tutorial optional?
Developer Response 01/17/2025
But it’s provocative, it gets people going!
A good one
04/28/2024

xiaofeng_li
You can feel the developer’s professionalism in the design.
A good one
04/28/2024

xiaofeng_li

You can feel the developer’s professionalism in the design.
Love the new update!
11/03/2023

PreciousO.
The ui is nice
Love the new update!
11/03/2023

PreciousO.

The ui is nice

• Added last download date on settings screen. • Added import from files options for favorites import. • Improved comments fetching by automatically falling back to API when web scraping fails. • Improved in-thread search results with highlighted matching texts.