What does HackerNews think of Hackers?
Hackers is an elegant iOS app for reading Hacker News written in Swift.
E.g. I use Hackers [1][2] because it is much easier to read stories on mobile and supports dark mode. Unfortunately, it doesn't support commenting or downvoting (yet?)
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hackers-for-hacker-news/id6035... [2] https://github.com/weiran/Hackers
If there was a dark mode on the site I’d just use that
No iPad version yet, working on that for 2.0.
Developer here. Hackers is my first project and I'd love to get some feedback from HN.
I decided to focus on reading HN as that's what I mainly do on my iPhone. Hopefully that's enough differentiation from the excellent news:yc app that already exists.
A few key features:
* Typography focused design
* Collapsable comments
* Read/unread badge
* Instapaper mobilizer
I wrote a little about Hackers on my blog: http://weiranzhang.com/blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app...
You can run it on your iPhone for free if you have a developer account, just clone the git repo: https://github.com/weiran/Hackers
Here are some promo codes:
Thanks, Weiran.