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- Login or Register your Hacker News account
- PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post
- Swipe to upvote, favorite, reply and hide stories & comments
- Comments are presented in nested threads. Tap a comment to collapse that thread
- Reply to posts & comments
- Submit new link or text posts including drafts
- Long press a story, link or comment to share
- No Ads. No subscriptions
- Landscape and Portrait support
- Hide read posts from the feed
- Tap the bottom button to scroll to the next root comment in the thread. Long press it to go to the previous one.
- All known hacker news endpoints - News, Ask HN, Show HN, Show HN Newest, trending, second chance pool, classic, active, best stories, best comments, new stories, new comments, noob stories, noob comments, jobs, over 100-500 points etc
- Submit posts, reply, comment using your HN account
- Browse top 100 leader accounts
- Browse stories from a specific site, user or date
- Archive support: View an archive of the post website. archive.is, archive.org & google cache.
- Search in comments and usernames! Search is case and diacritic insensitive and ignores punctuations.
- Select / highlight the comment/post title text for lookup/copy/translate
- Powerful search (powered by Algolia API) - use @date to sort by date, #story to filter for stories, #comments to filter for comments, #author_username to filter by user etc. These tags can be separated by commas. Refer to https://hn.algolia.com/api for more tags.
- Dark mode - both pure black and gray mode and many other color choices
- Low contrast text mode to make the text not be pure white #FFFFFF
- Many theme color choices for customization
- Font choices & sizes to make the design exactly to your liking
- Share comment as image
- Threaded comments with color bar to maintain visual orientation
- Articles open in built in webview with Reader Mode. Ability to use other browsers too.
- Play articles as audio with Text to Speech.
- Tap the domain in a story to see all stories from that site
- Tap the username in a story or comment to go to the user profile
- Browse your submitted stories and comments, favorited stories and comments, upvoted stories and comments, hidden stories
- High quality favicons for articles as HN doesn't provide any images. I run my own server for this so if you would like to help me support server costs, please buy the small one time in app purchase. It also unlocks custom fonts, themes, settings customizations and supports future update development.

All stories and comments are via Algolia API and Hacker News API:
https://news.ycombinator.com/
https://hn.algolia.com/api
https://github.com/HackerNews/API
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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