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HACK for YC's Hacker News is the most beautiful and easy way to read about the latest tech, startup and STEM news. - No Ads. No subscriptions. - Login or Register your Hacker News account - PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker...
Version History - Urgent bug fix for IAP issue. - Bug fix for layout issue. - Added a new "Export Comments as JSON" option in the context menu on posts. This exports all nested comments on the post as a JSON which you could pass to another app/Shortcuts for AI analysis/summarization. Note that this option will become available in the menu once all comments of the post are downloaded & parsed (the scroll to next thread button at bottom becomes visible). - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 155 2d ago - Added a new "Export Comments as JSON" option in the context menu on posts. This exports all nested comments on the post as a JSON which you could pass to another app/Shortcuts for AI analysis/summarization. Note that this option will become available in the menu once all comments of the post are downloaded & parsed (the scroll to next thread button at bottom becomes visible). - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 154 May 26 - Fixed a bug where the header buttons were not showing upon scrolling up - Fixed layout issues on iPad when using Split view - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 153 May 18 - Bug fixes for new SDK including Liquid Glass - Fixed a bug where on iPads running iOS 26, buttons were going behind the new traffic control buttons. - As requested, added a button to the search screen which shows the advanced search guide - Fixed a bug where exporting history as CSV on iPads was crashing - As requested, added a new setting allowing long pressing a comment to collapse root comment - Fixed a bug where the ellipsis/menu button (...) wasn't showing the context menu and collapsing comment instead - Improved legibility for text color for monospaced code blocks, metadata, and menu buttons - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 151 Mar 24 - Bug fixes for new SDK including Liquid Glass - Fixed a bug where on iPads running iOS 26, buttons were going behind the new traffic control buttons. - As requested, added a button to the search screen which shows the advanced search guide - Fixed a bug where exporting history as CSV on iPads was crashing - As requested, added a new setting allowing long pressing a comment to collapse root comment - Improved legibility for text color for monospaced code blocks, metadata, and menu buttons - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 150 Mar 24 - Fixed a bug where changing font sizes was not working. - Updated app to new SDK including Liquid Glass. - I understand not everyone is a fan of liquid glass. So, added a setting to disable it and revert back to old blurs. - Added support for liquid glass icon and a setting to disable it which lets you use the old alternate icons. - Improved legibility for text color for monospaced code blocks, metadata, and menu buttons. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 146 10/20/2025 - Updated app to iOS 26 SDK including Liquid Glass. - I understand not everyone is a fan of liquid glass. So, added a setting to disable it and revert back to old blurs. - Added support for liquid glass icon and a setting to disable it which lets you use the old alternate icons. - Improved legibility for text color for monospaced code blocks, metadata, and menu buttons. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 145 10/12/2025 - Fixed a bug where the contextual menu had extra space at bottom of text. - Added a new setting "Show What's New in Update popup" to disable the popup. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 141 08/27/2025 - Fixed a bug where some YouTube links were not opening in app. - YouTube links now open in YouTube app by default. - Added a new setting "Open links in YouTube App" to disable the behavior. - New screenshots for App Store. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 140 07/15/2025 - YouTube links now open in YouTube app by default. - Added a new setting "Open links in YouTube App" to disable the behavior. - New screenshots for App Store. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 139 07/14/2025 - Fixed the inset for the back button on comments page. - Post number now uses rounded font. - New screenshots for App Store. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 136 07/07/2025 - Now, changing of system dark mode setting will not kick you back to the home page. So you won't lose your place when reading. - Added support for matching system font size scaling. This will also not lose your place when reading. Tip: you can add system font size changing option to your iOS Control Centre to easily scale font sizes. - Added a new setting "Matches system font size scaling settings" - Added a new option "Toggle Theme" in the menu so you can change theme from anywhere in the app by tapping the ellipsis (three dots) menu button. Using this will turn off the "follow system dark mode" setting - Tapping the status bar a second time can now undo the scroll to the previous location - Added a new "Over N Points" endpoint to see only posts over N points - Fixed a bug where new comments were missing newline characters and didn't have a timestamp - Fixed a bug where Login/Register wasn't working directly via the app - Made the textfields have a background color - Item numbers now have a less prominent text color than the title - Code blocks now have monospaced font and grey color - You can now select and copy text of the parent post/comment in the Reply screen - Links in comments and user profile page have the correct color - Made the content denser. Padding can be changed in settings. - Tapping on links now give haptic feedback. This can be disabled with the new "Haptic feedback upon link click" setting. - Fixed the order of tip options - Metadata and back buttons now use rounded fonts for a friendlier look - UI bug fixes - Fixed a bug where upvote button on flagged/dead content showed incorrectly - Added a What's New update screen - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time only in app purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected] 134 06/04/2025 - Fixed a bug where links in comments and text didn't have color. I apologize for introducing this bug in last update. - Upon request, added a new setting "Comment indentation color matches nesting level" which reverts the behaviour. This is off by default. - The app is supported on macOS too. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one-time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the app store. Thank you for the support. Send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 132 05/27/2025 - Comment indentation line now matches username unique colours - The app is supported on macOS too. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one-time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the app store. Thank you for the support. Send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 129 05/21/2025 - Updated the algorithm for username unique colours - Made the status bar background pure black/white - Updated some text in settings - Updated metadata - The app is supported on macOS too. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. Small indie developers like me benefit from your support. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one-time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the app store. Thank you for the support. Send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 128 05/16/2025 - App now supports long press to see preview on iOS 13+ devices. Note that for this to work, long press to show context menu settings must be turned off. - The app is supported on macOS too. Small indie developers like me benefit from support from you. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. You can also leave a review on the app store. Thank you for the support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. Tips and in app purchase helps pay for it. No subscriptions. Please send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 127 04/11/2025 - Digging through the comments pages will now show the title of the main post. - The app is supported on macOS too. Small indie developers like me benefit from support from you. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. You can also leave a review on the app store. Thank you for the support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. Tips and in app purchase helps pay for it. No subscriptions. Please send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 126 03/10/2025 - Fixed a bug where comment collapsing was not working properly if a "flagged" comment is encountered. - The app is supported on macOS too. Small indie developers like me benefit from support from you. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. You can also leave a review on the app store. Thank you for the support. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. Tips and in app purchase helps pay for it. No subscriptions. Please send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 125 03/06/2025 - The "Clear caches" setting now also clears out Documents & Data from the app's Safari View Controller. If you use the app a lot, then this Documents & Data can be very big. Clearing this cache should reduce its size. Note that this may also cause you to be logged out from websites or lose any website specific data. - The app is supported on macOS too. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for the support. Please send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 122 01/26/2025 - The app now gives haptic feedback when comments are expanded/collapsed. This can be disabled in settings. - Added a new setting to disable the swipe right edge of screen to go forward. - Fixed a bug where double quotes in CSV exports were not escaped. - Added a new setting to completely disable swipe to go back. - The app is supported on macOS too. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for the support. Please send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 121 12/20/2024 - Fixed a bug where double quotes in CSV exports were not escaped. - Added a new setting to completely disable swipe to go back. - The app is supported on macOS too. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for the support. Please send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 120 12/19/2024 - Fixed a bug where time on comments wasn't showing. - The app is supported on macOS too. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for the support. Please send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 119 11/25/2024 - Fixed a bug where advanced search wasn't working correctly. - The app is supported on MacOS too. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for the support. Please send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 118 11/13/2024 - Fixed a bug where time wasn't showing on posts and comments. - The app is supported on MacOS too. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for the support. Please send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 117 10/31/2024 - Fixed a bug where time wasn't showing on posts and comments. - The app is supported on MacOS too. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing a tip and one time only in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for the support. Please send feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to me at:
[email protected] 116 09/09/2024
