2022-11-03
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A very nice app only let down by the inability to add comments, would have been 5 star otherwise.
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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!
Information
Developer
Categories
Version
1.0
Size
19.4 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated 12+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
Compatibility
iOS 15.0 or later
Devices
iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro11FourthGen, iPad Pro11FourthGenCellular, iPad ProSixthGen, iPad ProSixthGenCellular, iPad TenthGen, iPad TenthGenCellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
Languages
English
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Ratings & Reviews
4.5 of 5 (7 Ratings)