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!