Quick verdict
- What it is
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- At a glance
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- Free to download
- In-app purchases
Categories and search queries
Official categories
- News
- Developer Tools
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Key functions
| Function | Availability | Access | Scope | Evidence |
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| Family Sharing | Yes | Unknown | App Store | Store published |
| Free app | Yes | Free | — | Store published |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Limited free | — | Store published |
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Pricing & paywalls
App Store
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
Ratings & reviews
App Store
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3/5Probably the best for HN, still lacking
No doubt this is the best HN app I’ve used but it doesn’t hold a candle to something like Apollo which I consider(ed) the gold standard for a link aggregator client. Tap targets are way too small, must but almost half of what the HIG recommends. I find it infuriating to try to tap the “…” or upvote button only to have it collapse the thread and rinse and repeat 3-10 times before it works. Reply notifications and logged in status in general is extremely buggy. I randomly get logged out so I’ll be browsing, go to upvote, and get a generic error. It’s at this point I’ll notice the “Downvote” option is missing but the app will still show me logged in. Sometimes the only fix is to kill the app and/or log out/in again. Similarly, clicking on the bell/notification icon will randomly tell me “You haven’t enabled reply notifications” which is a setting I’ve never toggled off, yet it gets toggled off on me without any action on my part. The app works well overall but interacting with posts and the inconsistent/buggy auth status drive me bonkers.
JoshStrange · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5Just made the switch to this and happy
I’ve been lurking HN for over a decade now and I’d been using one of the older iOS apps for it. It was simple enough. But this app is significantly better, it feels more like it’s “mine” because of the customisations. After lurking for so long, I find this app motivates me to contribute. Totally worth upgrading to pro, even if you don’t need the features. I appreciate the devs 🤓
Thomasskis · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5The best iOS HN client
Only app I’ve reviewed. This one is good. It’s really clean, intuitive, & full featured, and it is ad free. Honestly this is how iOS apps should be. Absolutely an upgrade to the website on a mobile device. EDIT. I have been reading HN more lately, and I thought “this app is great, it feels wrong not to buy it considering how much I use it.” So I went to purchase it, and… I ALREADY BOUGHT IT some time ago. Yes people, it is that good.
Mike Sutherland 619 · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5Best so far
No purchase needed, no ads. Probably will pay the $5 to support the dev, though, because this kind of functionality is rare for ios apps without either ads or in-app purchases. Quite the hidden gem. Lots of settings to choose from. I especially like being able to select the text of a comment to copy by long-pressing on a comment, and from there, there are a lot of options, including copying the text as a whole, or selecting a certain part of the text as it pops up with the options. Now will look for other apps made by this dev! Edit: decided to purchase, it’s worth it
la03kd8ia · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5The best HN reader for iOS
Hack is a featureful, intuitive, and fast HN reader that does everything I need and more. The developer is super responsive to feedback and actually implemented a feature I requested (ability to change the default web browser) within a day or two. Amazing! Highly recommended app, I suggest if you enjoy it to purchase the $4.99 in-app purchase to support further development. The app’s value far exceeds this cost.
maddy_buttt · 31 Jul 2026
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Versions
App Store
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- 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]
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- 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]
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125
- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- 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]
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- Fixed a critical bug which would intermittently cause the app to entirely freeze, stop responding to touch, and require restarting the app. Sorry about this bug. - Fixed a bug where the share extension to open HN links in app were not working. - Entirely rewrote the "Full Screen Swipe Back" feature to use more modern APIs. - 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]
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Thank you for supporting me. Here's what's new: - Upon request by few users, added a new setting to keep screen on while idle. This is on by default. - Fixed a bug where the favicon image backgrounds weren't obeying theme changes. - Added a subtle border around the favicon images. - Added Archives option when long pressing links in comments. Now you can easily access archive.org versions of those links. - Note that previous update fixed a critical bug which would intermittently cause the app to entirely freeze, stop responding to touch, and require restarting the app. To fix it, entirely rewrote the "Full Screen Swipe Back" feature to use newer APIs. If this bug still persists, please email me. - Fixed a bug where the share extension to open HN links in app were not working. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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]
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Thank you for supporting me. Here's what's new: - Fixed a bug where thick title font setting wasn't working for some fonts. - Note that a previous update fixed a critical bug which would intermittently cause the app to entirely freeze, stop responding to touch, and require restarting the app. To fix it, entirely rewrote the "Full Screen Swipe Back" feature to use newer APIs. If this bug still persists, please email me. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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]
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Thank you for supporting me. Here's what's new: - Sometimes for logged out users, HN website reports an error on some pages. The app should now show that error. - Fixed a bug where thick title font setting wasn't working for some fonts. - Note that a previous update fixed a critical bug which would intermittently cause the app to entirely freeze, stop responding to touch, and require restarting the app. To fix it, entirely rewrote the "Full Screen Swipe Back" feature to use newer APIs. If this bug still persists, please email me. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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]
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· 25 Jul 2026
Thank you for supporting me. Here's what's new: - As requested by users, added a "Translate Language" option to context menu on comments and posts for easy translation. This is only for iOS and iPad. Not available on Mac. - Note that a previous update fixed a critical bug which would intermittently cause the app to entirely freeze, stop responding to touch, and require restarting the app. To fix it, entirely rewrote the "Full Screen Swipe Back" feature to use newer APIs. If this bug still persists, please email me. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. 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 as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at: [email protected]
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- Last verified
- 31 Jul 2026
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- Independent summary has not been published yet.
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