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This is the first HN app that immediately clicks for me.

Would absolutely love it if the text could be made bigger (both for reading and commenting)!

By the way, this reply was posted using the HackerNows app itself :-)

I really like this. It feels clean enough that I might make it my main HN app.
I'm trying it, really interesting!
If some users start seen `HNNetwork.NetworkError error 0`, this could be related to HN rate limit, i will add a friendly message for this error on the next version
great app, neat and native, but unfortunately the website still loads faster, which beats the whole purpose to me
Hey! Why a new app though? It's always interesting to understand the motives and the preferences of a person creating something new. I've skimmed through your website but you haven't highlighted what you missed in existing apps or what was your pain point
Feature Request: allow me to see only posts by categories I want to create and filter by.

For example: "AI" or "startups" or "discoveries"

Feature Request #2 Allow me to re-edit my comment after posting.
I predict that building an iOS app for HN will be so common, that it will become a standard AI benchmark.
Pretty cool. Any way to change the fonts?
HN clients are one of the most popular projects. I’m gonna agree with some of the other comment: this is nothing new.

https://hnpwa.com/

Why does it have to be “something new”?

Unless you’re making the same type of comment on every post about yet another nonsensical and useless AI post around here, I don’t think you have much right to complain.

It’s a cool thing someone built. Let it be what it is.

Frist three apps won't even load.
Is it vibe coded? Sorry I ask this about ALL software now.
Always interesting to see new HN apps, and this one seems OK.

Personally I prefer HACK [1], which is probably the most extensive HN client for iOS. The amount of options for controlling the look of the app means you can influence the reading experience quite a bit, which isn't true for this new app.

My biggest complaint with HACK is search. Instead of a real UI, it uses its own kludgy search syntax to control what to filter. For example, "foo #stories" filters stories only.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc-reader...

slightly related, what are the best open source RSS readers for iOS? as far as I know, HN has an RSS Feed available.
really good app! super intuitive and the layout is so clean

congrats!

There is one email-newsletter (Top daily news from HN commented) that works from several months ago for HN that I'm using, you should check it: https://tokenstree.eu