Hacker News Reader

Comment by threatofrain | Hacker News Reader

Custom views offers a very different perspective of what is "front page" for Hacker News, and it severely interacts with the argument of how the front page ought be curated. IMO most consumer apps and feed-like experiences should offer custom views for those who care for something other than an officially curated experience.

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There are other views:

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

Not so customizable, though.

My HACK app provides all those (and a few additional views which aren't listed on that page) plus chronological views which can be filtered by Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly. You can also filter for posts with 100, 200, 300, 400 or 500 points.

Also sends push notifications for when someone replies/comments to your post/comment.

Screenshots:

https://imgur.com/a/I8MCYjV

iOS, iPadOS and MacOS:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...

Just downloaded this, and it is quite pleasant to use. Nice work!

I tried a bunch of apps a while ago and this is the best one. HACK is awesome thanks for it, and being so responsive to emails!!

Nice one. It would be even nicer if it behaved more like a MacOS app, eg. Cmd-, for settings :)

The issue though is that it's an app. Why would I install something when I already have a browser :-)

The browser at least doesn’t offer push notifications for replies to your posts and comments. I believe my app is the only one which offers that.

Isn't HN like other forums with terrible, er quaint UI at this point? No power users on reddit actually use the bare app or official mobile application.

Aren't you confusing ad injection over usability here? The official client used to be in a usuable state.

With their shift of focus to PURE ads it has now become a hemorrhoid of the internet (unless you use custom clients)

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