[HN Gopher] A feature-rich Hacker News client
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A feature-rich Hacker News client
Author : taubek
Score : 65 points
Date : 2025-01-07 08:41 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| Uehreka wrote:
| It looks like this developer has 2 Hacker News reader apps in the
| app store: Hacki and Z Combinator. Which is the good one?
| sphars wrote:
| I'm going to guess that it's Hacki. It's the one in the OP
| link, and it's been more recently updated. Plus it's cross-
| platform with iOS and Android. I've used the Android version
| previously (I'm now using Harmonic), but couldn't tell you
| which is the better iOS app.
| joshstrange wrote:
| I bounce between Hack and Octal (I like both for different
| things)
|
| This looks decent but it misses a feature that I won't give up
| from Octal which is Apollo-like swipe left->right anywhere to go
| back (and reverse to drill back into the story you were on, which
| Octal doesn't support).
| perdomon wrote:
| This app feels so much more responsive than what I've been using.
| I think the login option should be a little easier to find (maybe
| visible when tapping the person in the corner instead of hiding
| in the Settings option).
|
| I really love the display options for something as minimalist as
| Hacker News or as detailed as Reddit.
|
| Really exceptionally done. Great work. Is this a free trial?
| (How) do you plan to monetize?
| mvf4z7 wrote:
| I used to use a client app like this. But after I switched
| phones, I never re-downloaded it and have found that using the
| browser works just as good for such a simple application.
| HaZeust wrote:
| Does it? It doesn't even notify you of new replies.
| mplanchard wrote:
| I've come to view this as a feature, personally. It means I'm
| a lot slower to respond to things, but it helps me to avoid
| getting drawn into heated conversations.
| lxgr wrote:
| +1, it's definitely a feature, not a bug.
|
| Getting a push notification or just seeing a little red
| badge makes me optimize for "be the first to answer".
| Seeing responses in a polling/async way means I can take a
| breath, read others' answers, and only respond if somebody
| else hasn't made the same point already anyway.
| wiseowise wrote:
| It's not a dating site.
| lowercased wrote:
| maybe it's just mobile safari, but hacker news in the browser
| on mobile is unusable for me.
| zero-g wrote:
| I've been reading hacker news only through hckrnews.com for
| years and never looked back
| lowercased wrote:
| Thanks! Never knew about that one!
| tbeseda wrote:
| I love hckrnews! I even cloned it to tailor it to how I
| use it[1]. Still working on filters and point threshold.
|
| [1] https://hnr.app
| oneeyedpigeon wrote:
| What's the problem? It's almost perfect on android, for me.
| cenamus wrote:
| Text links/buttons are terribly small, almost impossible to
| click. Text is too small too, but manageable. And of course
| mobile browser don't just let you zoom like on a PC
| lxgr wrote:
| Text works ok for me (you also can zoom in iOS Safari in
| the "tab menu" bar button!), but I've definitely
| downvoted things I've been meaning to upvote when reading
| on a shaky bus/train.
| wiseowise wrote:
| > And of course mobile browser don't just let you zoom
| like on a PC
|
| You absolutely can. Press button to the left of URL bar
| (don't know how it is called, where you can also enter
| reader mode) and at the bottom you'll find 100%. Press it
| and you'll have to A buttons that allow you to scale.
| codemac wrote:
| I'd love actually an "app" that was just the bookmark manager
| for launching the browser.
|
| Chrome, firefox, etc on android all either push me to use piles
| of shortcut icons w/folders (cluttered and exhausting to
| manage), or click through a hierarchical menu thats 20 clicks
| away.
| dbtc wrote:
| This would be great! Especially if it could sync bookmarks
| from multiple browsers. And URLs could be custom set to open
| in a non-default browser.
| eitally wrote:
| You can always just "Saved to home screen" from Chrome on
| mobile, and then create a shortcut folder with your
| collection of "web" apps. I've been doing this for the past
| couple years for a few local restaurants that use Square for
| direct online ordering, in order to shortcut the link to
| their ordering site.
| wklm wrote:
| I like the compactness of the UI, really well done!
|
| I was trying to build the app locally, but it's failing:
|
| ``` wojtek@Mac Hacki % flutter run Launching lib/main.dart on
| iPhone 16 Pro in debug mode... Running Xcode build... Xcode build
| done. 51.3s Failed to build iOS app Error (Xcode):
| lib/blocs/stories/stories_bloc.dart:254:15: Error: Property
| 'isEmpty' cannot be accessed on 'List<int>?' because it is
| potentially null.
|
| Could not build the application for the simulator. Error
| launching application on iPhone 16 Pro. ```
| microflash wrote:
| Pretty nice but unfortunately scroll performance is extremely
| choppy like many other Flutter apps. Also, like many other
| Flutter apps, it can't use system font stack. Still, on iOS, this
| is probably a better option than many other open source clients.
| On Android, I like Glider[1] and Harmonic[2] a whole lot more.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/Mosc/Glider
|
| [2]: https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN
| longstation wrote:
| I am having a pixel 6a and scroll feels normal.
| slimypi wrote:
| Harmonic is great. Been using it for years ! Has the best
| UX/function quality ratio imho.
| tiltowait wrote:
| Scrolling is extremely smooth on my iPhone 14 Pro.
|
| The app, though, feels like an Android transplant. No tap to
| scroll to the top, odd widgets, and no rubberband scrolling.
| The tip bubbles are also very "Google".
|
| That said, while it's not for me, it appears to be very solid
| for Android users (or people who are, to their benefit, less
| picky than I am).
| cpcallen wrote:
| I am obviously not the target audience for this, because it seems
| to be the opposite of what I want: I'd much rather just have a
| text-only homepage than anything with thumbnails.
|
| I'd really love an iOS app for Reddit that made the site look
| more like this one (or like the old `.compact` version did).
| CharlesW wrote:
| > _I 'd much rather just have a text-only homepage than
| anything with thumbnails._
|
| The mostly-text HACK is my favorite iOS client for that reason,
| so if you use iOS you might enjoy it too.
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-yc-hacker-news-reader...
| dvaun wrote:
| Been using Hack for years. The dev is responsive if you have
| questions.
| uoaei wrote:
| Cue the evergreen "there's a reason why the HN UX ia the way it
| is" conversation.
| johnea wrote:
| The best HN news client is ##hntop on Libera IRC network!
| jrhey wrote:
| Does anyone here use Hazumi for HN? I'm looking for new features
| to add and would love your feedback.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/hazumi-for-hacker-news/id16702...
| ziddoap wrote:
| Do a lot of people use HN clients? It never occurred to me to
| look for one.
|
| Looking at the feature list here, most of them I can already do
| (comment, vote, submit, etc.). Some of the other features I feel
| like would degrade my experience (polls, notifications).
|
| If you are someone that uses a 3rd-party client to access HN, can
| you sell me on the killer features (of whichever client you use)?
| Am I missing out?
| atlgator wrote:
| Can you integrate AI to summarize the talking points from the
| comments?
| officeplant wrote:
| At that point might as well have AI summarize the post as well
| and then boil everything down into a few seconds of reading.
| Maybe AI summarize the whole site into a once daily morning AI
| voiced podcast....
| insane_dreamer wrote:
| Looks nice. FWIW I use Hack and have been pretty happy with it --
| only gripe is that it lacks a feature to edit a comment after
| posting.
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