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Hackers

Swift2013–2023

weiran / Hackers

Hackers

Hackers is an elegant iOS app for reading Hacker News written in Swift.

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What it is

Hackers is an elegant iOS app for reading Hacker News written in Swift.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I recommend Hackers. https://github.com/weiran/Hackers

drmidnight used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-03-01 18:52:08 UTC to 2023-07-20 13:51:56 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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drmidnight·Jul 20, 2023Recommendation phrase

I recommend Hackers. https://github.com/weiran/Hackers

In Ask HN: Best app to read Hacker News on iPhone?

dhritzkiv·Aug 21, 2022

Probably 3rd party clients that offer quality of life / usability improvements over the website. E.g. I use Hackers [1][2] because it is much easier to read stories on mobile and supports dark mode. Unfortunately, it doesn't support commenting or downvoting (yet?) [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hackers-for-hacker-news/id6035... [2] https://github.com/weiran/Hackers

In Hacker News Official API

bennyp101·Aug 12, 2021

I use https://github.com/weiran/Hackers because it’s nice to read on, but then to comment I have to use the site, so yea lol If there was a dark mode on the site I’d just use that

In Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public?

commoner·Mar 7, 2019

Which HN app are you using? Materialistic (Android) and Hackers (iOS) have worked for me with no CAPTCHA issues, even with a VPN. https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic https://github.com/weiran/Hackers

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weiran·May 9, 2013

I made an open source Hacker News app that's inspired from HackerWeb: https://github.com/weiran/Hackers No iPad version yet, working on that for 2.0.

In Show HN: the iPhone version of News/YC, a Hacker News reader

weiran·Mar 1, 2013

Hi HN, Developer here. Hackers is my first project and I'd love to get some feedback from HN. I decided to focus on reading HN as that's what I mainly do on my iPhone. Hopefully that's enough differentiation from the excellent news:yc app that already exists. A few key features: * Typography focused design * Collapsable comments * Read/unread badge * Instapaper mobilizer I wrote a little about Hackers on my blog: http://weiranzhang.com/blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app... You can run it on your iPhone for free if you have a developer account, just clone the git repo: https://github.com/weiran/Hackers Here are some promo codes: http://tokn.co/sdus8rwv http://tokn.co/ahzutsrp http://tokn.co/wy3yzdbk http://tokn.co/junh2zxj http://tokn.co/mvatqeg7 Thanks, Weiran.

In Show HN: Hackers - my iPhone app for Hacker News