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.
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.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
pran@pranapps.com
I tried lots of Hacker News.. but they are all full of shiny bells and features I don’t need. I wanted something simple, minimal and a great dark theme. This is exactly it. A Hacker News reader that just works .. every link is open in reader mode by default .. and dark theme is beautiful.. even has a true black mode so I can read for hours comfortably if I want to. On top of that, the developer is super responsive. I reported a bug and it was fixed and available to download in 3 days. What’s not to love? I really wish more apps were like this.
Entwickler-Antwort
Thanks!
used to be good, toxic dev see last edit
_moodguy
i bought it when it was flawless. now it crashes and freezes. im using the website now and its way better. you dont need an app.Edit: Still freezes occasionally when you scroll down the comments. It started when liquid glass was introduced.Edit: Hi Dev, thanks for your response. The app still freezes when you collapse comments. I can send you a screenshot of the freeze but the bug will obviously not be visible. Maybe try using your own app for a few days and you will encounter the bug.Edit: Still happening.Last Edit: I sent you the footage. You responded to my criticism 4 times without taking me seriously. You introduced a bug into your app and now you cannot accept that i found it. Really dishonest behavior. I used to use the app regularly, but now it's unusable. I didn't want to talk trash about your app. I just wanted the bug to be fixed. Your passive aggressiveness is really off putting. i won't check anymore if your next update fixed the bug.Edit: Now you are just lying. I will not respond to you anymore. I sent proof and you ignored it. It's your problem, not mine.
Entwickler-Antwort
June 30th Edit:Hello,I listen to user feedback and personally respond to all reviews and emails I receive. My app has received 156 updates over 8 years and that's been possible because of user feedback to constantly improve it and fix bugs. I also personally use the app daily, often for many hours. And my friends use it too. So it's important for me to maintain it, fix bugs, add new features etc.So, there's no reason for me to say I didn't receive your email. I have genuinely not received it. I have checked my spam folder and nothing there either. Sometimes emails from unfamiliar domains or iCloud emails have trouble delivering, so maybe you sent it and it didn't get to me? Spam folder also has auto-delete after few days, so maybe that happened? This isn't your fault and I am sorry for both, the bug you faced as well as this frustrating troubleshooting process.Ultimately, we both want the same thing - your issue be fixed.One important thing I'd add that a bit over a week ago, another user reported a bug where when having the "full screen swipe to go back" setting was on, the app would intermittently stop responding to touches. I hadn't encountered that bug because I used to use the app with that setting off. That setting also used to be off by default, so most users probably had it off. So, I turned on that setting and tested it for a few days until I faced that issue too where the app randomly stopped responding to touches. Basically, when swiping back and then cancelling the swipe, an invisible zombie view would be left around on top of the app which would steal touch events from underlying content. So, I rewrote the entire code for the "full screen swipe to go back" feature and released update version 156 which I believe resolved it. Because that bug was so intermittent and hard to reproduce, me and my other user are still verifying it's resolved but we haven't faced it in the last week of use. So, I think it's gone now.I am not sure if your issue was the same as this and if you had that setting on or not. The App Store review doesn't give me much details about your device and environment and I don't use third part crashlytics for privacy reasons. Only thing the review shows is that your app version was 155. So, hope you try version 156 and let me know.So, if the bug persists after upgrading to version 156, I would really appreciate if you reach out to me via email again so I can fix the issue. Please send me:1. Video recording2. What device you are using3. What iOS or macOS version.4. Screenshot of the settings page in my app.5. Any more details of the issue.You can reach me at:pran@pranapps.comIf your issue is resolved, hope you update your review :)
I love a dedicated HN reader
hiram333
I haven’t really used all the comment, rating and up and down features but I love having a dedicated news reader with adjustable fonts, minimal indents of the comments. It’s very readable and non distracting. I used for a while only the web version in safari on the iPhone and this is clearly an enhancement. I also like the thank you screen... must admit that I pressed the restore button a few times:) So, great work and a prime spot on my home screen.
Entwickler-Antwort
Thank you for the kind feedback! I appreciate it!
Great UI but sometimes frustrating
A very long-term customer
Nice UI thanks. Please reassess the reasonability of hiding an item on long swipe to the left, it’s contrary to setting a star but can inadvertently produce the opposite behavior when swiped too far to the left, and then make the user look for the place where it can be restored. Totally confusing and frustrating. Oh and some other app here on AppStore provides live analytics to post interactions. Would be nice to have a couple plots here too.Otherwise a great upgrade over the default HTML interface, with extras well worth the current price tag.
Entwickler-Antwort
Thanks. I will add a feature to customize the swipe gesture. Can you email me the live analytics app you mentioned? Email me at pran@pranapps.com
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
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