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HACK for YC Hacker News Reader
HACK for YC's Hacker News is a visually appealing and user-friendly app that provides the latest news on technology, StartUps , and STEM. It offers several features, including the ability to login or register your Hacker News account, support on MacOS, and push notifications for replies to comments or posts. The app also allows you to browse comments in nested threads and collapse threads by tapping on a specific comment. You can upvote and favorite stories and comments by swiping left or right, and submit new posts, including drafts. Additionally, you can share stories, links, or comments by long pressing on them, and the app supports split view on iPads. It provides landscape and portrait support, as well as 3D touch for peek and pop functionality. The app allows you to hide posts from your feed and provides shortcuts for easy navigation. You can also search for specific comments or usernames, select and highlight text, and customize the app's appearance with different color choices, fonts, and font sizes. The app features threaded comments with color bars for visual orientation, and it opens articles in Safari view with an option to automatically open them in "readability" mode. By tapping on the domain in a story, you can view all stories from that site, and tapping on a username takes you to the user's profile. The app lets you browse your submitted, favorited, and upvoted stories and comments, and it provides archives of post websites through platforms like archive.is, archive.org, and Google cache. You also have the option to share comments as images and open articles in built-in Safari or third-party browsers like Brave, Firefox, and Chrome. The app is ad-free, analytics-free, and offers a pleasant user experience. If you enjoy using it, please consider leaving a positive rating on the app store. If you want to support development, you can make a one-time in-app purchase. For feedback or feature requests, you can email Pran at [email protected].