HacKit 17+

Beautiful Hacker News reader

Ammad Ur Rehman

    • 4.9 • 74 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

HacKit is a beautiful reader for reading Hacker News on the Mac. It emphasises on a simplified reading experience built for the macOS design language.

FEATURES
• Track stories you have read, favourited or hidden.
• Organise stories into folders.
• Organise the sidebar by drag and drop.
• Supports Touch Bar.
• Keyboard shortcuts.
• Search stories and polls from Algolia or the latest feeds from Hacker News.
• Drag a Hacker News story link and drop it on to HacKit app icon to read the story on HacKit.
• Customise story author badge colour.
• Coloured comments indentation.
• Supports multiple windows to focus on reading a story.
• Read any Hacker News story by copying and pasting the link in HacKit by clicking, Open Story from URL... (⇧⌘O) menu option.
• View user profiles.
• and many more.

Made by a British developer from London, England, UK.

Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me on Twitter, @anosidium or GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support

What is Hacker News?
Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” — Wikipedia

What’s New

Version 3.5

• Support for macOS Sequoia.
• Fixes issues that are specific to macOS Sequoia where stories are not displayed and Settings window not displaying the pane when switching tabs.
• Renames “Twitter” command to “Developer's Twitter Account” in Help menu.
• Adds “Developer's Mastodon Account” command in Help menu.
• Updates the copyright year.
• Updates App Store screenshots.

Please report all bugs, crashes and inconsistencies to me by opening an issue on GitHub. I would greatly appreciate it. No, really!

If you like the app, please leave a rating or a review. I would appreciate it a lot! Yes, truly!

Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? Crashes? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me at @anosidium or toot me at @anosidium@mastodon.social

Alternatively, you can reach me on GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
74 Ratings

74 Ratings

qzpmmpzq ,

Fast and lightweight

Arguably faster than searching for content on Chrome. The UI is intuitive. Great stuff!

RussianTankSniper ,

Nice

really liked it nothing bad about it

App Privacy

The developer, Ammad Ur Rehman, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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