HACK for Hacker News Reader 110

Pranoy Chowdhury – Freeware – iOS
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HACK for YC's Hacker News offers a visually stunning and user-friendly way to stay updated on the latest technology, startup, and STEM news. It provides an array of features designed to enhance your reading experience:

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 <li>No ads or subscriptions required</li>
 <li>Easily log in or register your Hacker News account</li>
 <li>Compatible with MacOS</li>
 <li>Receive push notifications for Hacker News replies</li>
 <li>Comments are organized in nested threads</li>
 <li>Effortlessly collapse comment threads by tapping on the desired comment</li>
 <li>Swipe left or right on stories and comments to upvote or favorite them</li>
 <li>Submit new posts, including drafts</li>
 <li>Conveniently share stories, links, and comments by long-pressing on them</li>
 <li>iPad users can enjoy split view functionality</li>
 <li>Drag and open stories, comments, and linked images using Safari in split view mode on iPads</li>
 <li>Supports both landscape and portrait orientations</li>
 <li>Utilize the 3D touch feature for peek and pop functionality</li>
 <li>Create home screen shortcuts using 3D touch</li>
 <li>Hide posts from your feed as desired</li>
 <li>Navigate to the next or previous root comment in a thread with the bottom button</li>
 <li>Access all of Hacker News' known 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</li>
 <li>Login, reply, and comment using your Hacker News account</li>
 <li>Browse the top 100 leader accounts</li>
 <li>Filter stories by specific site, user, or date</li>
 <li>Efficiently search through comments and usernames with case and diacritic insensitive matching</li>
 <li>Select and highlight comment or post title text for iOS native operations like lookup, copy, and translate</li>
 <li>Enjoy a powerful search feature powered by the Algolia API</li>
 <li>Switch to dark mode with both pure black and gray color scheme options</li>
 <li>Activate low contrast text mode to reduce eye strain</li>
 <li>Customize the app's look with various color choices, color picker, and font options</li>
 <li>Adjust font sizes, padding, and layout for a compact display</li>
 <li>Threaded comments with color bars for improved visual orientation</li>
 <li>Articles open in Safari View, with an option to automatically switch to "readability" mode</li>
 <li>Tap on the domain in a story to view all related stories from that site</li>
 <li>Quickly access user profiles by tapping on their username in a story or comment</li>
 <li>Browse your own submitted stories and comments, favorited stories and comments, and upvoted stories and comments</li>
 <li>View website archives using archive.is, archive.org, and Google Cache</li>
 <li>Share comments as images</li>
 <li>Easily open articles in built-in Safari or third-party browsers such as Brave, Firefox, Firefox Focus, Orion, Opera Touch, Dolphin, DuckDuckGo, iCab Mobile, Microsoft Edge, and Chrome by customizing the default browser in settings</li>
 <li>High-quality favicons shown in the app are cached on a dedicated server, along with push notifications for replies. Supporting server costs is appreciated and can be done through a one-time in-app purchase, which also unlocks custom fonts, colors, and icons</li>
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All stories and comments are fetched via the Algolia API and the Hacker News API. Profile pictures are provided by Robohash.org.

I strive to create an ad-free, analytics-free, and aesthetically pleasing app to offer the best possible experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, I kindly ask you to leave a positive rating on the app store to help spread the word. If you would like to support the app's development and show your appreciation, you can purchase a one-time in-app purchase option, with no subscriptions necessary. Thank you for your support!

If you have any feedback or feature requests, please don't hesitate to contact Pran via email at pran@pranapps.com.

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