Hacker News - Latest in Tech 12+
A powerful Hacker News reader.
Snap Web Studios
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The ultimate app for browsing Y Combinator’s Hacker News. Read the latest startup, technology, programming, and science news.
Hacker News has been built from the ground up for speed and customizability — extending what is possible in a reading experience.
Carefully designed for optimal experiences on iPhone and iPad, Hacker News is packed with features that will elevate your reading experience.
- Extremely fast, extremely simple: browse Hacker News’ feeds and threaded comments to make sure you stay up to date with everything going on!
- Keep track, on any device: favorite, read, or hide stories. Backed by iCloud all of your activity stays in sync and never leaves your iCloud account!
- Get organized, you’ll thank you later: create custom groups so you can easily save stories in a way that works for you. Keep all your programming topics together, all your science topics together in simple to use lists on every device.
- Search, far and wide: lightening fast search, so you can find any post you mentioned to a friend a few days ago.
- Customizable, everyone’s a little different: choose a light or dark appearance for the application, eleven different color themes, beautifully designed icons by Michael Flarup & Matthew Skiles, which browser to use, how dim a read story should appear, and even if you want to see how many points the story may have. Plus, much more.
- Read to me, robot: summarize a story with AI powered by OpenAI, sometimes you only need the gist.
- Quick read, quick fast: skip the ads, and read a markdown formatted version of the article.
- How long, time is money: read estimates for articles let you know how much time you’ll be committing.
- Powerful swipe gestures: quickly favorite, hide, and add stories to your groups.
- Keyboard shortcuts, for iPad: favorites, hiding, add to groups and more.
- Amazing widgets, right at home: customize your Home Screen with widgets of all sizes, choose your favorite feeds and see the latest stories at a glance.
- Take me to your leader: quickly open hacker news links from any app with our share sheet action! Just open the share sheet and press “Open in Hacker News”.
- No ads, ever. Privacy, forever: we don’t serve ads, track you, or store any of your data. We never will.
- Tips welcome: help keep this app alive and new icons flowing with a small, medium, or large tip.. or just give us a high five with a review!
Enjoy the best experience for Hacker News on Apple devices today!
Ratings and Reviews
Simply love it
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
Developer Response ,
Thank you! Login support is being worked on now!
Quick feedback / suggestion
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
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.
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Eric Lewis
- Size
- 19.4 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Copyright
- © 2021 Eric Lewis
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Large Tip $4.99
- Small Tip $0.99
- Medium Tip $2.99
- Extra Large Tip $19.99