HACK for Hacker News YC Reader

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PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post

Supported on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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

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.