apps / 1459946382
Hacky - Hacker News
Hacker News Reader
Mark Murphy · News · $1.99 · US storefront
- rating
- 4.7 ★
- ratings
- 23
- updated
- Dec 4, 2020
- released
- Jun 12, 2019
v1.4.2
visible word pool · 4 words
title 19/30 chars · subtitle 18/30 chars
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Hacky is a user-friendly Hacker News Reader for browsing Hacker News stories and comments. Features Include: View stories by Hot, Top, New, Ask, and Show. Bookmark your favorite stories and come back to them later. Organize your bookmarks with custom folders. Quickly search your bookmarks to find what you need. Traverse the comments easily by collapsing them with a tap. Color-coded comments make browsing threads a breeze. Press and hold to copy comment text and paste it…
latest US reviews
★★★★★
Unusable
This app is very buggy - something as basic as scrolling down the feed doesn’t work.
— tiny attack cat
★★★★★
A promising start.
This is a great start to something that will be my go-to HN reader once the kinks are worked out. The colored lines to show thread depth are great, but tapping on a comment to collapse the thread makes everything move upward (the current viewing position doesn’t move up to show…
— sillyrat
★★★★★
Largest hn/feed reader so far (50MB) 25x larger than most popular one
Largest hn/feed reader so far (50MB) 25x larger than most popular one
— summerrrcoconut
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