HNreader - Tech News vs Hax for Hacker News Usage & Stats
Reader app for https://news.ycombinator.com (aka "Hacker News") with a focus on the comments.
Features:
- Supports sections "Top", "New", "Show" and "Ask"
- Nested comments: press on a comment to reveal more entries of the discussion
- Supports macOS, iOS (iPhone) and watchOS (Apple Watch)
This application is Free and Open Source software (FOSS), source code is available at https://github.com/yep/HNreader
- Apple App Store
- Free
- News
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Hax is a free Hacker News client for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, that aims to provide a native browsing experience that improves upon the website while keeping a similar minimalistic appearance. Browse any Hacker News feed, scroll through stories and watch the discussion unfold in the comments. Other features include the following:
- Widgets: display the latest stories of any feed
- Discussion at a glance: generate a summary of a story's top comments using the Apple Intelligence on-device model (only on compatible devices)
- Controls: open any feed from Control Center, the Lock Screen, or the Action button
- Safari extension: when opening Hacker News links in Safari, you can open them in Hax
- Filter out stories and comments depending on keywords and/or users
- Search stories
- Translate titles, comments, and more
- Dark Mode and Dynamic Type
The project is open-source, so you can check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/lui5fl/hax
- Apple App Store
- Free
- News
Store Rank
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HNreader - Tech News VS. 
Hax for Hacker NewsJanuary 20, 2026