Version history
HACK for Hacker News Tech
36
ASO score
Text
33/100
Reviews
60/100
Graphic
40/100
Other
0/100
App Rating
4.3
Votes
62.84K
App Age
4y 5m
Last Update
May 09, 2025
iAP
$6.99 - 6.99
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Category Top Average
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Installs
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248.1K
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40.9M
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-99%
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Rating
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4.27
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4.22
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+1%
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
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52.1K
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46.5M
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-100%
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App Age
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4y 4m
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11y 11m
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-63%
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In-app Purchases Price
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$9
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$95
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-90
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Update Frequency
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237d
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183d
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+30%
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Title Length
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25
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24
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+4%
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Short Description Length
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59
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57
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+4%
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Description Length
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3 852
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1 989
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+94%
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Number of Screenshots
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704
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1500
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-53
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Has Video?
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No
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0% has videos
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Size
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0MB
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2MB
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Downloads
Downloads Graph
Total
248.1K
Last month
3.4K
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HACK for Hacker News Tech
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Developer coding technology startup STEM & science news
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HACK for Hacker News is the most beautiful and easy way to read about the latest programming, startup, science, technology, engineering and mathematics news. With ability to vote, favorite, comment, submit new posts and receive push notifications for replies, HACK is highly customizable with the best features you would expect in a top quality client.
- Login or Register your Hacker News account
- PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post
- Swipe to upvote, favorite, reply and hide stories & comments
- Comments are presented in nested threads. Tap a comment to collapse that thread
- Reply to posts & comments
- Submit new link or text posts including drafts
- Long press a story, link or comment to share
- No Ads. No subscriptions
- Landscape and Portrait support
- Hide read posts from the feed
- Tap the bottom button to scroll to the next root comment in the thread. Long press it to go to the previous one.
- All known hacker news endpoints - News, Ask HN, Show HN, Show HN Newest, trending, second chance pool, classic, active, best stories, best comments, new stories, new comments, noob stories, noob comments, jobs, over 100-500 points etc
- Submit posts, reply, comment using your HN account
- Browse top 100 leader accounts
- Browse stories from a specific site, user or date
- Archive support: View an archive of the post website. archive.is, archive.org & google cache.
- Search in comments and usernames! Search is case and diacritic insensitive and ignores punctuations.
- Select / highlight the comment/post title text for lookup/copy/translate
- Powerful search (powered by Algolia API) - use @date to sort by date, #story to filter for stories, #comments to filter for comments, #author_username to filter by user etc. These tags can be separated by commas. Refer to https://hn.algolia.com/api for more tags.
- Dark mode - both pure black and gray mode and many other color choices
- Low contrast text mode to make the text not be pure white #FFFFFF
- Many theme color choices for customization
- Font choices & sizes to make the design exactly to your liking
- Share comment as image
- Threaded comments with color bar to maintain visual orientation
- Articles open in built in webview with Reader Mode. Ability to use other browsers too.
- Play articles as audio with Text to Speech.
- Tap the domain in a story to see all stories from that site
- Tap the username in a story or comment to go to the user profile
- Browse your submitted stories and comments, favorited stories and comments, upvoted stories and comments, hidden stories
- High quality favicons for articles as HN doesn't provide any images. I run my own server for this so if you would like to help me support server costs, please buy the small one time in app purchase. It also unlocks custom fonts, themes, settings customizations and supports future update development.
All stories and comments are via Algolia API and Hacker News API:
https://news.ycombinator.com/
https://hn.algolia.com/api
https://github.com/HackerNews/API
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the play store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, please purchase the one time in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for your support!
Send any feedback or feature requests to Pran at:
pran@pranapps.com
HACK for Hacker News is not affiliated with Y Combinator.
NOTE: This app is not meant to hack anything. This app is meant for reading articles on Hacker News website. Do not download this app thinking it will help you hack something.}
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Additional Information
| Rating: | |
| Voted: | 62.84K |
| Google Play Link: | |
| Website: | |
| Email: | |
| Privacy Policy: | |
| Categories: | News & Magazines |
| Size: | - |
| iAP: | 6.99 - 6.99 $ |
| Installs: | 248.06K |
| App Age: | 4 years 5 months |
| Release Date: | Aug 07, 2021 |
| Last Update: | May 09, 2025 |
| Version: | 37.0 |
Version history
37.0
May 09, 2025
- Fixed a bug where buttons were off screen or cut off<br>- Updated the app to latest SDK<br>I offer an ad & analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a review on the play store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development, please purchase the one time in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for your support!<br><br>Send any feedback or feature requests to Pran at:<br>pran@pranapps.com
36.0
May 04, 2025
- Push notifications now request permission<br>- Updated the app to latest SDK<br>I offer an ad & analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a review on the play store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development, please purchase the one time in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for your support!<br><br>Send any feedback or feature requests to Pran at:<br>pran@pranapps.com