Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client

Is there some caching currently? And how login is handled? Are credentials routed through your own infrastructure?

I don’t think the Firebase HN API has rate limits. By the way, how many concurrent requests are you doing?

You might like HACK [1], then. It has a large set of options (maybe too many!) to change fonts, styles, colors, and spacing. It's probably the most extensive HN client for iOS.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc-reader...

Thanks, i will work on that.

Native dynamic fonts works, but i will add an in app option to change font size

+1. downloaded it to see if it’s faster, but comment section takes around 5-7 seconds to load. other than that, gj—-nice ux, polished, icon..

Highly recommend NetNewsWire, especially if one is already using it on any other Apple device. Recent updates have substantially improved its performance (on both iOS and macOS), so it's worth a second look if you haven't tried it recently.

I don't know about "best", but I've tried many, Reeder, Feedly etc, for many years. These are not OSS though, but Reeder was my favorite of the bunch.

I settled on running NewsBlur on an OVH instance, it's open source and so are the apps. https://github.com/samuelclay/newsblur

On the desktop I use the default web interface, it runs and looks nice. A bit too many batteries included, but you can turn things off.

It's Django, so you can vibe code to your heart's delight. I did.

For this one i would say Custom Groups and iCloud sync All other features are pretty similar to other HN clients

Maybe in the future, im working on a macOS version atm and since the app rely heavily on iCloud it makes it difficult to support Android

Do you read it on your phone? This website's (lack of a) mobile design makes it really hard to read. If I don't use my mobile app of choice (Harmonic), I have to zoom in really close and scroll all over the place. It's really annoying. The font is way too small, and it's hard-coded.

I have been using an app on my phone (HACK) for a while. The content is way more readable with the app. And the interactions (voting and replying) are much more native. Navigating the comments (collapsing and expanding) are way easier

Also on the iPad, the two column view is nice too

If it is not the data collection, then it is always the UX. Seems to be UX on this case. But highly opinionated, some people like the old feel here.

Strange question to ask on a forum where people seem intent on showing their new “I used AI to build something completely useless that will be forgotten in a matter of minutes” and the vast majority of people think it’s the next coming of Jesus.

It doesn’t need one, but now the option is there.

To "delve into comments" (quoting from the app's website).

Why does any?

Web HN is almost perfect, but an app is nice for offline caching of threads and potentially hide and favorites made while without internet access (that could eventually be synced as idempotent ops once connectivity is available again).

Why does it have to be “something new”?

Unless you’re making the same type of comment on every post about yet another nonsensical and useless AI post around here, I don’t think you have much right to complain.

It’s a cool thing someone built. Let it be what it is.

Frist three apps won't even load.

No, the app is not vibe coded, all things, good and bad are 100% human made :D

Why would that be relevant?

The website is, no idea about the app, though.

Honestly? Why does it matter? This isn’t going away so we can all focus our energy on helping this workflow improve, or just ignoring it.