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libHN
Objective-C2013–2014
bennyguitar / libHN

libHN

The definitive Objective-C library for adding HackerNews to your iOS/Mac app.

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151GitHub stars
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What it is

The definitive Objective-C library for adding HackerNews to your iOS/Mac app.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-11-05 16:57:30 UTC to 2014-10-07 20:18:35 UTC.

0122013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsNov 20132013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20142014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2014

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 20132013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Dec 20132013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20142014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20142014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Apr 20142014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20142014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20142014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20142014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20142014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20142014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20142014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
bennyg·Mar 7, 2014
libHN - https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN News/YC iOS App - https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone The app uses the libHN library for handling all requests/responses to HackerNews and is mostly just a visual representation of the data. Right now it allows logging in, viewing your own submissions, submitting posts, and submitting comments. --------------- Known Bugs --------------- Sometimes adding a comment crashes the app. I'm not handling an exception somewhere, I just honestly haven't had time to find it. The landscape view for submitting posts/comments is terrible from a user experience stand point. I know there's some interesting stuff that can be done with NSAutoLayoutConstraints but I haven't had too much time to mess with this either. I think better keyboard frame management can be accomplished too. --------------- Add
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itional Features --------------- I would like the ability to see comments for a user (similar to clicking "threads" at the top). The data request/response part of this needs to happen in libHN, and the user interface can be similar to the CommentsViewController in the app. I also would like to just go ahead and namespace the app's classes too, either HN or NYC. I like NYC (love it, heh) because HN is used for libHN and I'd kind of like that library to be a separate entity from the actual app.
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