Octal for Hacker News
Social developer & tech news
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4.15.1for iPhone, iPad and more
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About Octal for Hacker News
Octal is your go-to news feed for breaking tech news, putting the biggest stories of the day with engaging discussion right in the palm of your hand.
Beautifully designed for both iPhone and iPad, Octal focuses on what you care most about: design, speed, and usability. It's the modern, full-featured Hacker News app you've been looking for.
You'll find an unparalleled, community-powered source of stories about anything ranging from self-driving cars to the latest Apple gadgets. Octal has all the features you need, including the ability to vote on stories, submit posts, add comments, and manage favorites. Best of all, it's free of all that annoying stuff, like ads, subscriptions, and tracking. If you want to keep up to date with the latest popular and trending tech headlines, Octal is made for you.
• NEWS FOR NERDS: Read and share the most important stories in the tech world, submitted and voted on by Hacker News users. Stories are constantly changing, and often focus on areas like programming, startups, technology industry and companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, etc.), and key technology categories such as mobile, computers, internet, design, coding, and security.
• ENGAGE AND VOTE: Vote on stories and comments you like and dislike, and report stories with objectionable content. Found something you need to read later? Add it to your favorites!
• DISCUSS THE NEWS: Read and engage with stories by viewing their discussions with a fast, fully-threaded, collapsible, buttery smooth comments experience. Add your own comments. If you're a fast reader, you can instantly jump to the next top-level comment thread with a single tap.
• SUBMIT LINKS: Got a cool story or news link to share to Hacker News? Submit new posts directly in the app. You can also share links directly to Octal to quickly submit them.
• SEARCH STORIES: Search Hacker News stories and sort search results by relevance or date.
• JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Log in or register to Hacker News to easily track your karma, activity and favorites. Browse user profiles, including their karma, about, activity, and favorites.
• THEMEABLE: Total Dark Mode support. Turn on 'True Black' to use a pure RGB #000 background color - perfect for devices with OLED displays.
• CUSTOMIZE YOUR NEWS FEED: Tap or swipe between story filters such as 'Top Stories', 'Ask HN', 'Show HN', 'Best Stories', 'New Stories', and 'Jobs'. Rearrange them to your desire.
• ACCESSIBLE: Increase or decrease the text size to one that's comfortable for you, or enable 'Dynamic Type' to use the system's 'Larger Text' font size. And VoiceOver is fully supported!
• DEEP LINK SUPPORT: You can open Hacker News links in Octal by sharing them to Octal. You can also use apps like 'Opener'. Most Hacker News links starting with 'octal://' are supported!
• READY FOR ANY SCREEN: Octal looks great on iPads with an optional 2-pane interface. Say goodbye to wasted screen real estate.
• WEB BROWSER SUPPORT: Open links in your web browser of choice.
• AD-FREE, PRIVACY AWARE: No ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking.
ABOUT OCTAL PREMIUM:
To unlock advanced features, including the ability to submit posts, add comments, manage favorites, switch themes, change app icons, use custom gestures, and more, you can buy Octal Premium via an In-App Purchase. Octal Premium is a one-time payment and there is no subscription. Purchases support the development of Octal, which is developed solely by me!
ABOUT 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, its content can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". You can think of Hacker News as reddit for tech. It's the go-to news aggregator for tech.
SUPPORT:
Found a bug or have a feature request? Create an Issue on Github, or e-mail me: https://github.com/dangwu/Octal/issues
Beautifully designed for both iPhone and iPad, Octal focuses on what you care most about: design, speed, and usability. It's the modern, full-featured Hacker News app you've been looking for.
You'll find an unparalleled, community-powered source of stories about anything ranging from self-driving cars to the latest Apple gadgets. Octal has all the features you need, including the ability to vote on stories, submit posts, add comments, and manage favorites. Best of all, it's free of all that annoying stuff, like ads, subscriptions, and tracking. If you want to keep up to date with the latest popular and trending tech headlines, Octal is made for you.
• NEWS FOR NERDS: Read and share the most important stories in the tech world, submitted and voted on by Hacker News users. Stories are constantly changing, and often focus on areas like programming, startups, technology industry and companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, etc.), and key technology categories such as mobile, computers, internet, design, coding, and security.
• ENGAGE AND VOTE: Vote on stories and comments you like and dislike, and report stories with objectionable content. Found something you need to read later? Add it to your favorites!
• DISCUSS THE NEWS: Read and engage with stories by viewing their discussions with a fast, fully-threaded, collapsible, buttery smooth comments experience. Add your own comments. If you're a fast reader, you can instantly jump to the next top-level comment thread with a single tap.
• SUBMIT LINKS: Got a cool story or news link to share to Hacker News? Submit new posts directly in the app. You can also share links directly to Octal to quickly submit them.
• SEARCH STORIES: Search Hacker News stories and sort search results by relevance or date.
• JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Log in or register to Hacker News to easily track your karma, activity and favorites. Browse user profiles, including their karma, about, activity, and favorites.
• THEMEABLE: Total Dark Mode support. Turn on 'True Black' to use a pure RGB #000 background color - perfect for devices with OLED displays.
• CUSTOMIZE YOUR NEWS FEED: Tap or swipe between story filters such as 'Top Stories', 'Ask HN', 'Show HN', 'Best Stories', 'New Stories', and 'Jobs'. Rearrange them to your desire.
• ACCESSIBLE: Increase or decrease the text size to one that's comfortable for you, or enable 'Dynamic Type' to use the system's 'Larger Text' font size. And VoiceOver is fully supported!
• DEEP LINK SUPPORT: You can open Hacker News links in Octal by sharing them to Octal. You can also use apps like 'Opener'. Most Hacker News links starting with 'octal://' are supported!
• READY FOR ANY SCREEN: Octal looks great on iPads with an optional 2-pane interface. Say goodbye to wasted screen real estate.
• WEB BROWSER SUPPORT: Open links in your web browser of choice.
• AD-FREE, PRIVACY AWARE: No ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking.
ABOUT OCTAL PREMIUM:
To unlock advanced features, including the ability to submit posts, add comments, manage favorites, switch themes, change app icons, use custom gestures, and more, you can buy Octal Premium via an In-App Purchase. Octal Premium is a one-time payment and there is no subscription. Purchases support the development of Octal, which is developed solely by me!
ABOUT 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, its content can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". You can think of Hacker News as reddit for tech. It's the go-to news aggregator for tech.
SUPPORT:
Found a bug or have a feature request? Create an Issue on Github, or e-mail me: https://github.com/dangwu/Octal/issues
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What's New in the Latest Version 4.15.1
Last updated on Oct 15, 2023
Old Versions
• Updated 'Share HN link' option to share the URL only.
• Restored story ranks when using the 'Compact' story layout.
• Restored story ranks when using the 'Compact' story layout.
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Version History
4.15.1
Oct 15, 2023
• Updated 'Share HN link' option to share the URL only.
• Restored story ranks when using the 'Compact' story layout.
• Restored story ranks when using the 'Compact' story layout.
4.15.0
Sep 27, 2023
Increased the touch target area for the upvote button and comments button in the stories view.
4.14.0
Jul 11, 2023
Prefer not to see the comment jumper button? You can now hide it in settings.
4.13.0
Jul 10, 2023
• Slightly refreshed story layout.
• VoiceOver label for comments now includes the comment's thread level.
• VoiceOver label for stories now includes the story's URL.
• Custom accessibility actions for comments now includes the 'Collapse' action.
• VoiceOver label for comments now includes the comment's thread level.
• VoiceOver label for stories now includes the story's URL.
• Custom accessibility actions for comments now includes the 'Collapse' action.
4.12.0
Jul 6, 2023
• Share a HN link to Octal to open it in Octal.
• Share a web link to Octal submit it to Hacker News.
• Vastly improved accessibility (VoiceOver) support.
• Long press the story link from the comments view to copy it to your clipboard.
* Added 'Copy Text' action to the comment overflow menu.
• Fixed a bug where the comments view dismisses when a device rotation causes the split view to collapse.
• Fixed a bug where the comments header content could be hidden behind the Dynamic Island.
• Share a web link to Octal submit it to Hacker News.
• Vastly improved accessibility (VoiceOver) support.
• Long press the story link from the comments view to copy it to your clipboard.
* Added 'Copy Text' action to the comment overflow menu.
• Fixed a bug where the comments view dismisses when a device rotation causes the split view to collapse.
• Fixed a bug where the comments header content could be hidden behind the Dynamic Island.
4.11.0
Oct 17, 2022
• Added a new setting for enabling/disabling the 'Comment Jump' button.
• Updated comment overflow options menu.
• Updated story layouts with larger tap areas.
• Fixed an issue where story 'Limit' filters were not immediately respected.
• Updated comment overflow options menu.
• Updated story layouts with larger tap areas.
• Fixed an issue where story 'Limit' filters were not immediately respected.
4.10.9
Aug 24, 2022
Users are now prevented from adding comments to submissions that are too old.
4.10.8
Aug 22, 2022
Fixed a minor layout issue where submission text could be covered by the notch in landscape mode.
4.10.7
May 18, 2022
Fixed an issue where favorite comments were not loading.
4.10.6
Mar 25, 2022
Fixed minor background color issue for devices in 2-column view.
4.10.5
Mar 23, 2022
Fixed a minor favicon display issue.
4.10.4
Mar 19, 2022
Fixed an issue where links were not showing in Show HN posts.
4.10.3
Nov 22, 2021
Fixed an issue where favorites were not loading.
4.10.2
Nov 18, 2021
• Fixed a issue where voting on stories and comments would always fail.
• Fixed a issue where the user activity view would not display newly added comments.
• Fixed a issue where the user activity view would not display newly added comments.
4.10.1
Aug 31, 2021
The Dynamic Type and Text Size settings no longer require Premium to change.
4.10.0
Jun 12, 2021
Fixed an issue that could prevent users from successfully adding stories to their favorites.
4.9.0
Jun 2, 2021
• Octal now appears in Spotlight's search results.
• Moved the flag action into a secondary overflow menu.
• Removed haptic feedback when expanding or collapsing a comment.
• Moved the flag action into a secondary overflow menu.
• Removed haptic feedback when expanding or collapsing a comment.
4.8.1
May 5, 2021
Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
4.8.0
Apr 25, 2021
• Added link to Octal on the App Store to Settings menu.
• Reduced frequency of haptic feedback usage.
• Fixed a bug where an 'Success!' alert could incorrectly appear at launch.
• Fixed a bug where some comments were incorrectly appearing as a link.
• Reduced frequency of haptic feedback usage.
• Fixed a bug where an 'Success!' alert could incorrectly appear at launch.
• Fixed a bug where some comments were incorrectly appearing as a link.
4.7.1
Apr 23, 2021
Fixed a rare crash that could occur when trying to display a comment.
4.7.0
Apr 23, 2021
• The comment skip button is now bigger and bluer.
• New upvote and downvote animations.
• Fixed a bug where a user's 'about' text could disappear.
• Fixed a bug where some comments were incorrectly appearing as a link.
• New upvote and downvote animations.
• Fixed a bug where a user's 'about' text could disappear.
• Fixed a bug where some comments were incorrectly appearing as a link.
4.6.0
Apr 21, 2021
• Moved the account view into a new bottom tab, for easier access to your own activity and favorites.
• Added a new custom gesture - 'Tab Refresh'. When enabled, you can tap the 'Stories' or 'Search' tab to quickly refresh its content.
• You can now long press the back button to select which page to go back to. Back buttons have titles now, too.
• Minor UI updates, including updated upvote and downvote icons.
• Improved comments scrolling performance.
• Added a new custom gesture - 'Tab Refresh'. When enabled, you can tap the 'Stories' or 'Search' tab to quickly refresh its content.
• You can now long press the back button to select which page to go back to. Back buttons have titles now, too.
• Minor UI updates, including updated upvote and downvote icons.
• Improved comments scrolling performance.
4.4.1
Apr 14, 2021
Long press the 'comment thread' (↓) button to jump to the previous comment thread instead of the next.
4.4.0
Apr 12, 2021
• In 2-pane mode, the bottom tab bar now fills the entire width of the screen, allowing each tab to have it's own context. Also fixed an issue where 2-pane mode was chosen when there wasn't enough horizontal space, often occurring when multi-tasking on iPads.
• You can now view all of someone's favorite stories and comments - not just their recent ones. Also fixed an issue where duplicate comments were appearing in your own favorite comments list.
• An error message is now displayed when trying to change the app icon on an unsupported device.
• Minor UI improvements.
• You can now view all of someone's favorite stories and comments - not just their recent ones. Also fixed an issue where duplicate comments were appearing in your own favorite comments list.
• An error message is now displayed when trying to change the app icon on an unsupported device.
• Minor UI improvements.
4.3.0
Apr 8, 2021
• When writing a reply, your draft is automatically saved and restored.
• The default app icon has been reverted back to the original one (named 'Classic'). 3D and shadows are back in style! #BigSur
• The default app icon has been reverted back to the original one (named 'Classic'). 3D and shadows are back in style! #BigSur
Octal for Hacker News FAQ
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Octal for Hacker News.
iPhone
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Octal for Hacker News supports English
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