HACK for Hacker News Reader 110

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:

• No ads or subscriptions required
• Easily log in or register your Hacker News account
• Compatible with MacOS
• Receive push notifications for Hacker News replies
• Comments are organized in nested threads
• Effortlessly collapse comment threads by tapping on the desired comment
• Swipe left or right on stories and comments to upvote or favorite them
• Submit new posts, including drafts
• Conveniently share stories, links, and comments by long-pressing on them
• iPad users can enjoy split view functionality
• Drag and open stories, comments, and linked images using Safari in split view mode on iPads
• Supports both landscape and portrait orientations
• Utilize the 3D touch feature for peek and pop functionality
• Create home screen shortcuts using 3D touch
• Hide posts from your feed as desired
• Navigate to the next or previous root comment in a thread with the bottom button
• 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
• Login, reply, and comment using your Hacker News account
• Browse the top 100 leader accounts
• Filter stories by specific site, user, or date
• Efficiently search through comments and usernames with case and diacritic insensitive matching
• Select and highlight comment or post title text for iOS native operations like lookup, copy, and translate
• Enjoy a powerful search feature powered by the Algolia API
• Switch to dark mode with both pure black and gray color scheme options
• Activate low contrast text mode to reduce eye strain
• Customize the app's look with various color choices, color picker, and font options
• Adjust font sizes, padding, and layout for a compact display
• Threaded comments with color bars for improved visual orientation
• Articles open in Safari View, with an option to automatically switch to "readability" mode
• Tap on the domain in a story to view all related stories from that site
• Quickly access user profiles by tapping on their username in a story or comment
• Browse your own submitted stories and comments, favorited stories and comments, and upvoted stories and comments
• View website archives using archive.is, archive.org, and Google Cache
• Share comments as images
• 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
• 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

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 [email protected].