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Show HN: Hacker Feed – An iOS app for reading Hacker News

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Looks really nice. I leave it installed but won’t be my daily driver until it gets darkmode and ability to post replies.

What do you use instead?

Octal - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/octal/id1308885491?mt=8

Octal is incredibly good.

Boreal is pretty good. Has dark mode and light mode. Allows to fold comments and reply. Nice and clean UI.(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/boreal-a-hacker-news-client/...).

Thanks. I downloaded Boreal on this recommendation and have paid the 99p premium upgrade because after trying a few clients it is far superior. Also after lurking for years long this is the first comment I’ve ever made!

Does the dark mode work for articles? I tried all of the various article view options but couldn't get it to work.

No, articles just open in the browser. Either the embedded boreal browser, embedden safari, or safari.

MiniHack

Nice work! Please consider adding a dark mode.

I hope they hang on, actually. iOS 13 is rumoured to have a dark mode API.

+1 for dark mode feature request. :)

I like it! I wish I could comment from with int app, it's basically everything I'd like out of an HN app

Have you tried Octal?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/octal/id1308885491?mt=8

I just tried it, although it asks to upgrade to a premium version to post comments. I think I'll just keep the authenticated browser tab open to post comments for now. :)

Consider supporting freemium software that you enjoy using —especially when maintained by individual developers— if you ever hope for it to be maintained.

Odd - I'm using Octal now, and it hasn't required an upgrade for comment posting.

In fact, I didn't even know there was a premium version.

The developer changed the pricing model about a month back (?). People who got it before the change were grandfathered into the premium service.

Can confirm - using the base version to post this comment.

Now posts are a different story - you can’t publish a post from Octal.

Huh, didn’t notice you can’t post till now. Maybe it’s in the works?

This is awesome! I’ll be trying it out for the next few days/potentially weeks.

Looks great, runs great. Fantastic job, OP! :)

I have just tried it. The idea is nice, but browser needs some fixes. I could not close cookie warning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19813921

Well executed! There's already a comment requesting this, I'll just add to it. Ability to login and take CUD (I mean, we already checked off R from CRUD) actions would complete the circle.

How does the App go past pay walls like the New York Times?

Separate Webview from Safari: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19824216

In my brief experience with the app, it doesn't bypass the pay walls.

Actually there are quite some app on hacker news now I aware of this. Just use safari and safe host page. Can export to pdf easier on top of login etc.

At some point, I built https://tefter.io/~hackernews so that I could read HN but also other feeds and keep them easily categorised and searchable. It's a progressive web app, so it's easy to install on most devices. Give it a try!

Personally I do not like feeds that take 1/2 page or more on my mobile to cover one item. Drawback of showing pictures for feed items.

HN is super nice because it is so condensed (for me).

I’m fan. You have inspired me. Gonna write one myself to refresh my front end skills. What tools did you use to build this?

Any plans to open source the code? I bet you could get a PR that enabled native comments.

Hey I just tried this out. I dont see any difference with and without compact story mode. Is it working properly?

The compact mode uses small thumbnails on right side instead of huge ones above the title. Doesn’t look different if the article linked does not have hero image.

Beautiful. Really impressed. I think a search function would be nice to have...

Looks nice. Would you consider adding an option to clear cookies when opening a webview? That way paywalls cannot count my views.

Hey this is pretty cool. Thanks for releasing this!

Nice :) Found a bug for the text linkification (the first s3 link) here https://imgur.com/a/hXHBTW0

Also noticed the API ;)

Not sure that's a bug - there's a space in the actual post.

> give a direct s3 link to https:// s3 .amazonaws.com/mywebsite/index.html.

This is great!

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