Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client

JSR_FDED

This is the first HN app that immediately clicks for me. Would absolutely love it if the text could be made bigger (both for reading and commenting)! By the way, this reply was posted using the HackerNows app itself :-)

murats

I really like this. It feels clean enough that I might make it my main HN app.

christofori

Nice job, bro! Keep it up!

ngsevers

Any plans for android?

vforno

I'm trying it, really interesting!

maguszin

If some users start seen `HNNetwork.NetworkError error 0`, this could be related to HN rate limit, i will add a friendly message for this error on the next version

wesleynepo

Muito foda, obrigado meu bom!

functionmouse

why does this website need an app?

ngalaiko

great app, neat and native, but unfortunately the website still loads faster, which beats the whole purpose to me

fallenchromium

Hey! Why a new app though? It's always interesting to understand the motives and the preferences of a person creating something new. I've skimmed through your website but you haven't highlighted what you missed in existing apps or what was your pain point

artur_makly

Feature Request: allow me to see only posts by categories I want to create and filter by. For example: "AI" or "startups" or "discoveries"

artur_makly

Feature Request #2 Allow me to re-edit my comment after posting.

rvz

I predict that building an iOS app for HN will be so common, that it will become a standard AI benchmark.

fragmede

Pretty cool. Any way to change the fonts?

tulio_ribeiro

HN clients are one of the most popular projects. I’m gonna agree with some of the other comment: this is nothing new. https://hnpwa.com/

Glandalf

Is it vibe coded? Sorry I ask this about ALL software now.

atombender

Always interesting to see new HN apps, and this one seems OK. Personally I prefer HACK [1], which is probably the most extensive HN client for iOS. The amount of options for controlling the look of the app means you can influence the reading experience quite a bit, which isn't true for this new app. My biggest complaint with HACK is search. Instead of a real UI, it uses its own kludgy search syntax to control what to filter. For example, "foo #stories" filters stories only. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc-reader...

Jotalea

slightly related, what are the best open source RSS readers for iOS? as far as I know, HN has an RSS Feed available.

caste

really good app! super intuitive and the layout is so clean congrats!