Harmonic for Hacker News

Simon Halvdansson

About this app

Harmonic is a beautifully designed, open-source and fully featured client for Hacker News. It has a Material You design, a wide feature set and many customization options.

Highlights
• Dark theme material design
• Log in to comment, vote and submit posts
• Customizable UI
• Search
• Smart link previews
• Optional AdBlock
• Tablet support
• Switch between Top/Best/New categories
• Fast comment loading
• Share and bookmarks posts
• Import/export bookmarks
• AMOLED dark mode
• Filter posts
• Hide jobs posts
• Optional thumbnails

Harmonic for Hacker News is not affiliated with Y Combinator.

Ratings and reviews

The app is great but I don't understand why they changed the icon. This icon does not show the harmonics while as the previous one showed 3 harmonics. At first I thought this icon showed one harmonic that was slightly shifted to create a copy but it actually shows no harmonics. Neither of those copies is a correct sine wave. But the app is really good and it somehow updates itself so I don't have to. Thanks for building and sharing it.

As far as looks, this is the best HN client. It has a very clean minimal look. It does have some limitations though, some of them likely made to account for that fact. For instance, you cannot search and sort results by most recent - which reduces it's usefulness (especially when search returns results from 7~ years ago). Another is when writing very long comments, the end of the reply is behind the keyboard so you cannot see what you're typing. Still, this is my preferred client.

Really nice hacker news client with a lot of options. One thing I would like to see is an option to increase the title text size as I think it's too small. An option to use an alternate font would also be nice.

What's new

- Removed Nitter integration (RIP)
- Fixed long comment links opened on long press (thanks to flofriday!)
- Added vote direction in toast (thanks to flofriday!)
- Added button to view changelog from about section (thanks to flofriday!)
- Fixed crash when clicking link in reply screen (thanks to flofriday!)
- Changed some button colors
- Fixed 2 rare crashes
- Added button to add/remove bookmark on post long press
- Added option to filter domains (thanks to naitgacem!)