HACK for Hacker News Tech
June 22, 2024
More About HACK for Hacker News Tech
- PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post
- Swipe to upvote, favorite, reply and hide stories & comments
- Comments are presented in nested threads. Tap a comment to collapse that thread
- Reply to posts & comments
- Submit new link or text posts including drafts
- Long press a story, link or comment to share
- No Ads. No subscriptions
- Landscape and Portrait support
- Hide read 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, Ask HN, Show HN, Show HN Newest, trending, second chance pool, classic, active, best stories, best comments, new stories, new comments, noob stories, noob comments, jobs, over 100-500 points etc
- Submit posts, reply, comment using your HN account
- Browse top 100 leader accounts
- Browse stories from a specific site, user or date
- Archive support: View an archive of the post website. archive.is, archive.org & google cache.
- Search in comments and usernames! Search is case and diacritic insensitive and ignores punctuations.
- Select / highlight the comment/post title text for lookup/copy/translate
- 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 and many other color choices
- Low contrast text mode to make the text not be pure white #FFFFFF
- Many theme color choices for customization
- Font choices & sizes to make the design exactly to your liking
- Share comment as image
- Threaded comments with color bar to maintain visual orientation
- Articles open in built in webview with Reader Mode. Ability to use other browsers too.
- Play articles as audio with Text to Speech.
- 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, hidden stories
- High quality favicons for articles as HN doesn't provide any images. I run my own server for this so if you would like to help me support server costs, please buy the small one time in app purchase. It also unlocks custom fonts, themes, settings customizations and supports future update development.
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
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the play store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, please purchase the one time in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for your support!
Send any feedback or feature requests to Pran at:
[email protected]
HACK for Hacker News is not affiliated with Y Combinator.
NOTE: This app is not meant to hack anything. This app is meant for reading articles on Hacker News website. Do not download this app thinking it will help you hack something.
Latest Version
34.0
June 22, 2024
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User Reviews
Sarvesh Vishwakarma
2 years ago
How can i sync read story with actual site?
Nikos Kapraras
3 years ago
Nice app with room for improvement
David Mike Joseph
2 years ago
I love this app is very useful to me it makes me learn so many things
Asad Khan
3 years ago
Best HN app I've used so far. Blows materialistic out of the water.
Ryan Rampersad
2 years ago
it's a pretty good hackernews reader app, plenty of useful customization too
Theo
2 years ago
Posts don't load and unable to access comments or vote on stories. Seems like the same recent bug in the iOS version.
htuy42
2 years ago
hn is already a pretty useable website, but this app has enough nice goodies and small improvements to be worth using.
Robin O'Neill
1 year ago
Recently bought the premium and it's quite buggy. To the extent it has stopped opening. Not great
Nick Searle
2 years ago
One star because the swipe to go back feature is extremely annoying and can't be turned off unless you pay.
Saurabh Yadav
3 years ago
Finally some good competition to materialistic. Please provide option to change font in reader mode. Also change line spacing. Edit: different font option for reader font.
Godwins Victory
2 years ago
This app works perfectly well, the features are topnotch, easy to use , and it suitable for all age, I will recommend you get the app to get your job done at ease.
James Kellett
3 years ago
Ugly UI and a bit awkward to use. Settings to try change the look are locked behind the pro version so no idea if it can ever look usable
Ayooluwa
1 year ago
Please add a way to remove items in the context menu when you right-click on a story item. There I things I don't use there, and it takes too much cognitive load to find what I want
D G
1 year ago
Is there a way to change the color or contrast of a "read" headline in the home list view? They end up very washed out and difficult to see...
Georges Mackoul
1 year ago
The app doesn't feel smooth to operate. Lots of animation stutters. Good interface though.
Nick
3 years ago
Very nice - would be really cool if you could allow other apps to parse the link title. For instance, I'd I share a link from Materialistic (hn client), Telegram and Gmail will automatically parse its title. Would really appreciate this feature in Hack!
sortaSOTA
2 years ago
This app has the best interface so customizable and responsive. Was a long time Materialistic user but things like a fast search in comments and regular updates make this a clear winner. The dev is also very easy to contact and will address issues.
Dark Lawtivity
2 years ago
Overall, it's a good app. The only reason I took off a star is that color customization should be more advanced, considering it cost money. Specifically, I should be able to change the font color to green text. If this is added, I will add a star.
SM Usama Shah
3 years ago
Best HN app so far. Only app which sync favorites up/down. Reply to posts, customize fonts and many other features. It has more features than any other client. Special thanks to developer who added a feature (high contrast separators) and fixed YouTube playing in background on my request. Keep it up.
Ryan Crellin
3 years ago
A great little app to view HN. I love the use of sliding gestures to move back, and even the built-in browser doesn't feel at all disjointed. The use of vibrations is subtle but enjoyable too. It has a wide range of options to suit anyone's viewing needs. Even moreso on the paid tier (but everything is fine even for the free content). Thanks a lot!
