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Description
Hacky is a user-friendly Hacker News Reader for browsing Hacker News stories and comments. Features Include: View stories by Hot, Top, New, Ask, and Show. Bookmark your favorite stories and come back to them later. Organize your bookmarks with custom folders. Quickly search your bookmarks to find what you need. Traverse the comments easily by collapsing them with a tap. Color-coded comments make browsing threads a breeze. Press and hold to copy comment text and paste it anywhere. Easily share interesting stories you find with your friends. Viewed stories turn grey so you know where you've been. Theme switcher for when you're feeling light or dark. and more to come!
What's New
Updated app icon.
Details
- Developer
- Mark Murphy
- Main Category
- News
- Version
- 1.4.2
- Version Release
- 2020-12-04
- Initial Release
- 2019-06-12
- Size
- 85 MB
- Age Rating
- 12+
- Price
- USD 1.99
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- com.markmurphy.darkhackernews
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.65 (23)
- First Seen
- 2026-07-09
Metadata updated 2026-07-19
Rank History
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Competitive Benchmark — News Top 10
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| 1 | GoodLinks | USD 9.99 | ★ 4.72 | 627 | 7 | 2026-06-22 |
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| 8 | News Explorer | USD 4.99 | ★ 4.68 | 640 | 1 | 2026-07-14 |
| 9 | lire: RSS Reader | USD 9.99 | ★ 4.38 | 151 | 8 | 2026-07-07 |
| 10 | Electoral Map Maker 2024 | USD 3.99 | ★ 4.37 | 86 | 1 | 2024-05-14 |
| 61 | Hacky - Hacker News | USD 1.99 | ★ 4.65 | 23 | 1 | 2020-12-04 |
User Reviews
This app is very buggy - something as basic as scrolling down the feed doesn’t work.
This is a great start to something that will be my go-to HN reader once the kinks are worked out. The colored lines to show thread depth are great, but tapping on a comment to collapse the thread makes everything move upward (the current viewing position doesn’t move up to show the newly-collapsed thread) so it’s very easy to get totally lost. Also, it would be great if the copy text feature used the standard iOS method where you can choose the start and end of what’s going to be copied, rather than having to copy a paragraph at a time. (And there’s a large bug to be dealt with: article titles repeat and glitch when you scroll down the article list past a certain point.) Keep up the good work, it’s getting there!
Largest hn/feed reader so far (50MB) 25x larger than most popular one
This is super satisfying to use. The regular hacker news site so so ugly lol. This is refreshing. A bit slow to load posts when switching tabs but I’m sure you know and/or are working on it! Keep it up! Oh, and thanks for including a light version even though it’s called “Dark” Hacker News 😂. I truly appreciate it.
I’m glad I found this app for HN! Great work!!
i like this one best. very elegant & the light mode is equally so. nice flow into comments and the in-app browser option makes me happy. settling here after playing with several option.
Does what it needs and stays out of your way. The UI I prefer. Softer edges.
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