Hacker Feed
Modern iOS app for reading Hacker News
Hacker Feed launched on May 4, 2019 with 259 votes, #64 of 3,072 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
In plain words
Hacker Feed is an iOS app designed for reading Hacker News. It offers thumbnail previews of stories, bookmarking functionality, and dark mode support. The app targets tech-focused readers who want a streamlined way to browse Hacker News on their iPhone or iPad.
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From the sources
Hacker Feed is a modern, fast and elegant iOS app for reading Hacker News, with support for beautiful thumbnail previews, bookmarks, dark mode and more.
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This hacker news app has most of the features I care about. Open graph previews, performance, and a very readable, dense, thread view. It’s also important to me that I can see the top comments before tapping the article. The only things on my wishlist are some sort of ad-free solution and better handling of screen orientation. This app locks to portrait all the time which is usually what I want. Directly supporting landscape videos would be ideal though. For that I need to switch to safari. You can do this with one tap but it would be ideal not to have to leave the app. This hacker news app has most of the features I care about. Open graph previews, performance, and a very readable, dense,…from apps.apple.com
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Since I got an iPad I was looking for a better Hacker News reading experience than the one you can get using the web version. On the iPhone I use the ihackernews.com web app (and soon going to try news.yc). It's decent for the iPhone, but it doesn't scale good on the iPad. To my surprise, when I checked there was no decent iPad app for HN (i.e. lacking ability to comment or vote, no readability support and more). I anyway wanted to give a try to iPad development, and was looking for an interesting project to work on. Making HN reader app seemed as a good candidate. Over the last weekend I…
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