Hackers for Hacker News
The ultimate Hacker News app
Free
4.8.0for iPhone, iPad and more
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About Hackers for Hacker News
Hackers is the ultimate app for Hacker News. We focus on the reading experience, with a simple yet beautiful UI and clean typography. Navigate large comment threads with ease just by swiping left. Up vote posts and comments by swiping right.
Hacker News is a social news site about startups and technology.
# Features
• Beautiful typography focused UI with light and dark themes
• Login to your Hacker News account to vote on posts and comments with a swipe left
• Collapse and expand nested comments with a tap
• Collapse an entire comment thread with a swipe right
• Thumbnails for each post
• Universal iPhone and iPad app
• Blazing fast performance
Any feedback or questions, contact me at @weiran on Twitter, or raise an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/weiran/Hackers
Hackers is an open source project, check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/weiran/Hackers
Hacker News is a social news site about startups and technology.
# Features
• Beautiful typography focused UI with light and dark themes
• Login to your Hacker News account to vote on posts and comments with a swipe left
• Collapse and expand nested comments with a tap
• Collapse an entire comment thread with a swipe right
• Thumbnails for each post
• Universal iPhone and iPad app
• Blazing fast performance
Any feedback or questions, contact me at @weiran on Twitter, or raise an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/weiran/Hackers
Hackers is an open source project, check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/weiran/Hackers
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What's New in the Latest Version 4.8.0
Last updated on Jul 17, 2023
Old Versions
• Copy text from comments with a long press (thanks @BeIllegalBeagle)
• Various bug fixes and improvements
• Various bug fixes and improvements
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Version History
4.8.0
Jul 17, 2023
• Copy text from comments with a long press (thanks @BeIllegalBeagle)
• Various bug fixes and improvements
• Various bug fixes and improvements
4.7.12
May 17, 2023
Sharing by email now uses the post's title as the subject
4.7.11
Nov 22, 2022
Fixed posts not loading (again)
4.7.10
Nov 19, 2022
Fixed posts not loading (again)
4.7.9
Nov 14, 2022
Fixed posts not loading
4.7.8
Oct 14, 2022
Fixed URL appearing in titles (again)
4.7.7
Oct 5, 2022
Small fix for titles incorrectly containing URLs.
4.7.6
Sep 29, 2022
Fixed an issue preventing the feed from loading
4.7.5
Sep 22, 2022
Fixes a bug which caused no posts to appear
4.7.4
Sep 16, 2022
• New notifications widget
• Improved login flow
• Reduced app size
• Improved login flow
• Reduced app size
4.7
Apr 20, 2022
Improved login experience
4.6.7
Apr 4, 2022
Fixed a rare crash when collapsing comments.
4.6.6
Jan 1, 2022
Fixed viewing self posts under Jobs. Thanks to @JefferyCA.
4.6.5
Dec 19, 2021
Fixed fetching next page for New and Jobs posts. Thanks @JefferyCA!
4.6.4
Dec 6, 2021
• Pull to refresh comments
• Fixed sending feedback emails with third party email apps
• Limited size of thumbnail cache storage
• Fixed sending feedback emails with third party email apps
• Limited size of thumbnail cache storage
4.6.3
Oct 22, 2021
Fixed an issue preventing posts from loading.
iOS 14 support is back.
iOS 14 support is back.
4.6.2
Oct 19, 2021
Fixed an issue preventing posts from loading.
4.6.1
Jul 10, 2021
Fixed a visual bug where backgrounds were overlapping
4.6
Jun 6, 2021
• Long tap to see a context menu for posts and comments.
• Adds a setting to disable swipe gestures (thanks @ballwood)
• Fixed a dark mode but on the iPad
• Adds a setting to disable swipe gestures (thanks @ballwood)
• Fixed a dark mode but on the iPad
4.5.4
May 10, 2021
Fixed a rare crash with certain posts.
4.5.3
Mar 31, 2021
• Added the Show HN category, thanks to @anosidium
• Fixed a bug that prevented the feed from loading
• Fixed a bug that prevented the feed from loading
4.5.2
Jan 18, 2021
Fixes a crash with a small number of posts.
Fixes some links being incorrectly encoded which prevented them working.
Fixes some links being incorrectly encoded which prevented them working.
4.5.1
Jan 9, 2021
Thumbnails now load way faster.
4.5
Jan 3, 2021
Fixed a few crashes.
4.4.2
Oct 17, 2020
Thanks to @vhschlenker, you can now open links in your default browser of choice.
Hackers for Hacker News FAQ
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Hackers for Hacker News.
iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Hackers for Hacker News supports English
