HACK for Hacker News Reader

Name: HACK for Hacker News Reader
Rating: 4.66458 (1118 reviews)

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Pranoy Chowdhury

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User Reviews for HACK for Hacker News Reader

Best ios hackernews app

This app is the best app for hackernews that I’ve tried on iOS and I’ve tried a couple of them. It’s so good I paid for the pro version and it’s even better with the latest update. I really like all the settings/options. One suggestion I would have though would be adding a right swipe to go back to the previous page(basically the opposite of the left swipe). Apollo has this enabled by default. Another suggestion would be adding the ability to swipe away the long press options or hiding those options behind an overflow menu because I always find myself accidentally long pressing comments and bringing up the menu.

Arrisrocks, Jun 22, 2022

Best HN app by far!

This app is worth the money if you enjoy reading YCombinator Hacker News. I've tried all of the various apps for HN and this is by far the best of the entire class. The app is clean, fast, customizable and best of all the developer is very active in pushing out improvements and responding to feedback.

Bob Loblobb, Apr 28, 2020

Great support (follow up to previous review)

Updating to a newer version (87) fixed my issue! Thank you for the prompt response! Not sure why there was a delay in updating because I have automatic updates turned on but it’s fixed now. Much appreciated, this has become my goto app in the short time I’ve had it!

Gsurya1, Sep 30, 2022

Fantastic app

I don’t usually leave reviews but this is the one app where the one time purchase was the best thing I’ve ever done. The app is so smooth, looks beautiful, and has a ton of customization. I’d highly recommend this app to anyone interested in reading hackernews on their iPhone.

heiwnfheiwkdbwi, Oct 03, 2021

Probably the best for HN, still lacking

No doubt this is the best HN app I’ve used but it doesn’t hold a candle to something like Apollo which I consider(ed) the gold standard for a link aggregator client.Tap targets are way too small, must but almost half of what the HIG recommends. I find it infuriating to try to tap the “…” or upvote button only to have it collapse the thread and rinse and repeat 3-10 times before it works.Reply notifications and logged in status in general is extremely buggy. I randomly get logged out so I’ll be browsing, go to upvote, and get a generic error. It’s at this point I’ll notice the “Downvote” option is missing but the app will still show me logged in. Sometimes the only fix is to kill the app and/or log out/in again. Similarly, clicking on the bell/notification icon will randomly tell me “You haven’t enabled reply notifications” which is a setting I’ve never toggled off, yet it gets toggled off on me without any action on my part.The app works well overall but interacting with posts and the inconsistent/buggy auth status drive me bonkers.

JoshStrange, Jun 18, 2023

Very nice reader!

It has all of the functionality I want (including customization options, like disabling favicons, which I find distacting). I'm very happy with this reader. The only thing keeping me from 5 stars is that the apps performance (scrolling, navigation) suffers greatly when the app is in macOS full screen mode. Hopefully this is something the developer will look into for a future update! Thanks again!

Kyle Olivo, Oct 24, 2021

Best so far

No purchase needed, no ads. Probably will pay the $5 to support the dev, though, because this kind of functionality is rare for ios apps without either ads or in-app purchases. Quite the hidden gem. Lots of settings to choose from. I especially like being able to select the text of a comment to copy by long-pressing on a comment, and from there, there are a lot of options, including copying the text as a whole, or selecting a certain part of the text as it pops up with the options.Now will look for other apps made by this dev!Edit: decided to purchase, it’s worth it

la03kd8ia, Feb 26, 2021

Best so far

No purchase needed, no ads. Probably will pay the $5 to support the dev, though, because this kind of functionality is rare for ios apps without either ads or in-app purchases. Quite the hidden gem. Lots of settings to choose from. I especially like being able to select the text of a comment to copy by long-pressing on a comment, and from there, there are a lot of options, including copying the text as a whole, or selecting a certain part of the text as it pops up with the options. Now will look for other apps made by this dev! Edit: decided to purchase, it’s worth it

la03kd8ia, Nov 19, 2022

Good, but small annoyances and one big bug

Overall this app is very good! Thank you for making it. Ok, on to the the things that need to be fixed.First and foremost, sometimes clicking the back button freezes the app and makes me force close and restart before it becomes responsive again. This is super annoying and has happened 7 times in the last 5 minutes. Secondly, this one is less of a major issue but more of an annoyance. It’s really hard to upvote a comment without it collapsing it. I have to try 3-5 times before I actually am able to click the upvote instead of collapsing. Thanks again for the app. Hope these issues can get worked out.

Mackeyja92, Jul 12, 2020

The best HN reader for iOS

Hack is a featureful, intuitive, and fast HN reader that does everything I need and more. The developer is super responsive to feedback and actually implemented a feature I requested (ability to change the default web browser) within a day or two. Amazing! Highly recommended app, I suggest if you enjoy it to purchase the $4.99 in-app purchase to support further development. The app’s value far exceeds this cost.

maddy_buttt, May 20, 2020

Description

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 - Supported on MacOS - PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post - 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 #FFFFFF - 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. - I run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors & icons. 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 Profile picture robots lovingly delivered by Robohash.org 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 app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support! If you have any feedback or feature requests, please email Pran at: [email protected]