Harmonic-HN

Author here. First of all, thank you to the Harmonic app by Simon Halvdansson (https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN). I know many (most?) of you prefer to use the no frills layout of the hacker news wesite and I totally respect that. But I really enjoy using the Harmonic app on my android phone which has a much more modren layout and is visually appealing and easier to use for me. I disliked using the plain-old hacker news on my computer and found myself going back again to my phone to scroll HN. HarmoNova brings many of the features I love about Harmonic to the desktop browser, including a modern, card-based layout for stories and comments, color-coded comment threads, article preview images, favicons, and a bunch of customization options. It also has a split-pane layout, so you can browse stories and read discussions side by

Side note: Simon Halvdansson runs "Harmonic", an Android client for Hacker News, I am using it daily for 2+ years and I sincerely recommend it. I even asked him a feature (mark a story as read), and he implemented it shortly after. Shout-out to you Simon! https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simon.harm...

I currently use: On the laptop: Modern HN (https://www.modernhn.com) for Firefox. Not fond of the phoning home to firebase and extensionpay. On the GrapheneOS Pixel: Harmonic (https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN)

The author said "I hope to get around to posting it on F-Droid soon, it doesn't seem like too much work" back in 2023 <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36051011> but my 3rd-hand experience with F-Droid is that it is a lot of work There is an issue tracking that outcome if you wanted to follow it https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN/issues/185

Hello There, <p>I want to show you guys and get your feedback for my Hacker News client built using React Native.</p> <p>This maybe a yet another Hacker News client, but there was an inspiration behind building HackerBuzz, and it was <a href="https://github.com/simonhalvdansson/Harmonic-HN">Harmonic-HN by Simon Halvdansson</a>, I saw this app and instantly fell in love with its workings and functionality, and wanted to build something like this by myself, hence started working on HackerBuzz</p> <p>Both code and app might not be perfect and could have problems(that I would love feedback on), but I'm feeling good to show my work to you.</p> <p>Here is the repo: <a href="https://github.com/ajshrmaofficial/HackerBuzz">https://githu..., and apk is also available at release section.</p> <p>Start the repo if you like it, feel free to give sugge

Pretty nice but unfortunately scroll performance is extremely choppy like many other Flutter apps. Also, like many other Flutter apps, it can’t use system font stack. Still, on iOS, this is probably a better option than many other open source clients. On Android, I like Glider[1] and Harmonic[2] a whole lot more. [1]: https://github.com/Mosc/Glider [2]: https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN

Harmonic[0] has a dark mode. [0]: https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN

And I just discovered another one today: Harmonic. https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN I'm still searching for "just right". And while I know that posting comments is an experimental feature in Glider, I was pretty miffed today when I lost a somewhat lengthy reply that I had spent the previous thirty minutes drafting. Nevertheless, I know better than to blame anyone but myself for the loss. I should have been copying my progress to a safer location the entire time, and the source is right there, waiting for my patch. As always, the joys of free software abound.

On desktop I'll stick to the original page, it's so simple and good. But it isn't that good on mobile. On mobile I use Harmonic for Hackernews it is the best one I've used. I tried many others but Harmonic is the only one I'm still using. The only reason that made me want to use another App, was that it wasn't open source, but it got open sourced some time ago. https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN

Hey HN! I'm the developer of one of the most popular Android clients for HN, Harmonic for Hacker News. Over the years I have recieved many requests to open source the app which I am finally doing - sorry about taking so long :) Having been very busy working on my PhD during the last two years - Harmonic has not recieved the attention it deserves. I therefore hope that open sourcing it can give it a new lease on life. I also hope that by posting here many of the nice people who have reached out to me will notice that the app is finally open source. I'm also happy to answer questions about the app but cannot make any hard promises about future features. (As a note; I wouldn't call the architecture of the app a beauty by any means - it is very much cobbled together using my (somewhat outdated) knowledge about Android development.) -- Simon