Hacker News
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About this app
The best way to read Hacker News
Introducing a free, open-source HN client designed to give you the best Hacker News experience. Developed by Emerge Tools (a Y Combinator company) in partnership with Supergooey. This app is a labor of love, crafted by a team with deep expertise in mobile app development.
Why choose this HN client?
• Native Android Experience: We believe in the power of native apps. Hacker News for Android is designed to offer a fast, smooth, and intuitive user experience that only a truly native app can provide.
• Open Source and Community-Driven: The app is completely open source, inviting developers to contribute, learn, and improve it together. We want to give back to the HN community, which has been instrumental in our growth.
• Performance & Efficiency: Leveraging Emerge’s newest tool, Reaper, we’ve optimized Hacker News for Android to be as lean as possible, stripping away unnecessary code and resources to deliver a fast, lightweight app.
• Dogfooding at its Best: We built this app to experience firsthand what our users do. By using Emerge’s own suite of mobile development tools, we’re constantly refining our product to make it better for everyone.
We welcome your feedback and contributions. Whether it’s a feature request, a bug report, or a new idea, your input helps shape the future of the app.
And if you’re a developer, contribute to our open-source codebase on GitHub: https://github.com/EmergeTools/hackernews/tree/main/android
Privacy Policy: https://www.emergetools.com/HackerNewsPrivacyPolicy.html
Introducing a free, open-source HN client designed to give you the best Hacker News experience. Developed by Emerge Tools (a Y Combinator company) in partnership with Supergooey. This app is a labor of love, crafted by a team with deep expertise in mobile app development.
Why choose this HN client?
• Native Android Experience: We believe in the power of native apps. Hacker News for Android is designed to offer a fast, smooth, and intuitive user experience that only a truly native app can provide.
• Open Source and Community-Driven: The app is completely open source, inviting developers to contribute, learn, and improve it together. We want to give back to the HN community, which has been instrumental in our growth.
• Performance & Efficiency: Leveraging Emerge’s newest tool, Reaper, we’ve optimized Hacker News for Android to be as lean as possible, stripping away unnecessary code and resources to deliver a fast, lightweight app.
• Dogfooding at its Best: We built this app to experience firsthand what our users do. By using Emerge’s own suite of mobile development tools, we’re constantly refining our product to make it better for everyone.
We welcome your feedback and contributions. Whether it’s a feature request, a bug report, or a new idea, your input helps shape the future of the app.
And if you’re a developer, contribute to our open-source codebase on GitHub: https://github.com/EmergeTools/hackernews/tree/main/android
Privacy Policy: https://www.emergetools.com/HackerNewsPrivacyPolicy.html
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Ratings and reviews
4.0
12 reviews
Dawserdoos Grahamcracker
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May 22, 2025
Absolutely STUNNING way of reading HackerNews! My one major gripe, is my main reason for looking for a client vs. using my browser shortcut is Notification support... Add an optional notification feature and 5 stars for sure!!
Domas
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October 2, 2024
Design not bad, but news not filtered, I expect hacker news, not about sand or penguins. And small intro what about that post would be good, not you just see a title and its blind shot to open, optional images too (is someone would like to see). Here some my tips, but now, 2 stars, useless.
Emerge Tools
November 19, 2024
Hey there! Thanks for the feedback - this app is just a reader for news.ycombinator.com, so all the content is user-generated and not created by us. Hacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator, so the content is not all about "hacking".
We'll look into adding filtering! That's a great suggestion.
Agustin
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January 19, 2025
looks very clean and nice, but the devs seem to have forgotten some of the basics! No responding to comments, just to the main post. No viewing users. No search... I guess if all you want to do is read then fine
Emerge Tools
February 12, 2025
Thanks for the feedback Agustin! We're working on adding features and responding to comments is a great suggestion! Search will also be added to the list. Given it's a work in progress, would greatly appreciate upping the review since it sounds like you like the design/app overall :)
What’s new
- Update to stable reaper && build distribution. [#503](https://github.com/EmergeTools/hackernews/pull/503)
- Add Sentry features. [#455](https://github.com/EmergeTools/hackernews/pull/455), [#457](https://github.com/EmergeTools/hackernews/pull/457)
- Add Sentry features. [#455](https://github.com/EmergeTools/hackernews/pull/455), [#457](https://github.com/EmergeTools/hackernews/pull/457)
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About the developer
Emerge Tools, Inc
support@emergetools.com
1034 Princeton St
Santa Monica, CA 90403
United States
+1 310-751-4009
