Hacker News Tech Reader vs Nocturne for Hacker News

HACK for YC's Hacker News is the most beautiful and easy way to read about the latest tech, startup and STEM news. - No Ads. No subscriptions. - Login or Register your Hacker News account - PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post - Supported on iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Setting to block AI posts on HN. - Comments are presented in nested threads - Tap a comment to collapse that thread - Swipe left or right on stories and comments to upvote and favorite - Ability to submit new posts including drafts - Long press a story, link or comment to share - iPad supports split view - On iPads, you can drag a story / comment / story's image (link) to open it in safari in split view. This is useful for when you are viewing the app in split view / multitasking and like opening the link / story / comment in a browser side by side. - Landscape and Portrait support - 3D touch for peek, pop support - Home screen 3D touch shortcuts - Hide 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, front page, Ask HN, Show HN, Show HN Newest, classic, active, best stories, best comments, new stories, new comments, noob stories, noob comments, jobs, over 100-500 points - Submit posts, reply, comment using your HN account - Browse top 100 leader accounts - Browse stories from a specific site, user or date - Search in comments and usernames! Search is case and diacritic insensitive and ignores punctuations. Search uses an CONTAINS, OR operation if multiple words are typed. - Can select / highlight the comment/post title text for lookup/copy/translate etc iOS native operations. - 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 - Low contrast text mode to make the text not be pure white - Many color choices & color picker for customization - App icons in variety of colours for light and dark mode - Font choices - Ability to change font sizes, padding etc to make the layout as compact as you like! - Threaded comments with color bar to maintain visual orientation - Articles open in Safari view with setting to automatically open in "readability" mode - 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 - Archive: View an archive of the post website. archive.is, archive.org & google cache. - Share comment as image - Articles can be opened in built in safari or 3rd party browsers. Supports Brave, Firefox, Firefox Focus, Orion, Opera Touch, Dolphin, DuckDuckGo, iCab Mobile, Microsoft Edge and Chrome. Go to settings > Disable the "Use in-app Safari" setting > tap that row to change the default browser. 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 Profile picture robots lovingly delivered by Robohash.org There are ongoing costs of developing and maintaining HACK. I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. I offer a beautiful app for the absolute best user-experience. I don't use intrusive ads, trackers, third-party analytics, subscriptions, or other nonsense. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. It's a small and fair amount which helps cover development costs of future updates. Contact me at: pran@pranapps.com

Nocturne is an independent, offline-first reader for Hacker News, built for the subway, the plane, and anywhere the signal drops. THREADS THAT DOWNLOAD THEMSELVES As soon as the feed loads, Nocturne downloads the comments for the top 100 stories. No bookmarking needed: open any of them later with no signal and the whole discussion is there. A green mark shows what's ready, and a ribbon always tells you whether you're reading live or cached stories. Browse Top, New, Best of Today, and Rising, and bookmark the threads you want to keep. Swipe between your saved threads, articles, and comments. COMMENTS YOU CAN FOLLOW • Lines trace every reply back to its parent • Tap a name to fold any comment or thread • A floating arrow jumps to the next thread; hold it to go back • Swipe left or long-press a comment to save, block, report, or view it on Hacker News • Share any discussion in a tap SEARCH WITH NO SIGNAL Search titles, authors, and sites across everything on your phone, online or off. CALM BY DESIGN • No ads, no account, no analytics, no tracking • Read-only: it never asks for your Hacker News password • Subtle haptics and adjustable text size • A short welcome tour shows you around NOCTURNE PRO: ONE-TIME PURCHASE Nocturne is complete without it. Pro adds: • Offline Reader: swipe a story right to save the full article text, then switch between Reader and the live page • Saved comments: keep just the reply that mattered • Ask HN, Show HN, and Jobs feeds • True-black AMOLED and classic Hacker News themes No subscription. An independent reader. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Y Combinator. HACKER NEWS is a trademark of Y Combinator.