HacKit, a macOS app for reading Hacker News stories and polls
I wrote a macOS app for reading Hacker News stories and polls and recently released version 3.0 with new features. It is written in Swift and uses AppKit framework. It is a Mac-first app which is built for the macOS design language. It looks and feels and works like a proper macOS app made with love and care. It is not a port of an iOS nor an iPadOS app nor anything else. I am quite proud of it and I hope you can appreciate it too. So, I recently updated it to version 3.0 with new features such as tracking stories by marking it as (un)read, (un)favourite and (un)hidden. There is also folder…
HacKit, a macOS app for reading Hacker News stories and polls launched on October 18, 2022 with 8 votes, #1,260 of 3,153 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
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• Adds the Oliphaunt tab to the Preferences/Settings window • Updates references from Twitter to X • Adds “Developer’s Bluesky Account” command to the Help menu What is Oliphaunt? It is my new Mac app for Mastodon, a federated social network built on the ActivityPub protocol. You can find it in the Preferences/Settings window or search for it on the App Store. Rest assured, HacKit will support macOS Tahoe along with other new features and refinements. I have been busy building Oliphaunt, so that’s where my time went. Please report all bugs, crashes and inconsistencies to me by opening an issue on GitHub. I would greatly appreciate it. No, really! If you like the app, please leave a rating…from apps.apple.com
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I wrote a macOS app for reading Hacker News stories and polls and recently released version 3.0 with new features. It is written in Swift and uses AppKit framework. It is a Mac-first app which is built for the macOS design language. It looks and feels and works like a proper macOS app made with love and care. It is…
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