/Hews

A hacker news reader focuses on readng experience with some handy features.

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Hews

A hacker news reader focuses on readng experience with some handy features.

Get it on Google Play

Basic features

  • Clear nested comments
  • Three themes: light, sepia, dark and AmoLED black
  • Browse Top, New, Show HN and Ask HN stories
  • Browse popular posts by any date range
  • Login hacker news account, upvote and reply to post/comment
  • Search by any date range, with popularity/date sorting
  • Open hacker news links from other app
  • Open post/other links in external browser
  • Check User's HN profile (long press)
  • Share comment link/content (long press)
  • Material design
  • Open source

Special features

  • Highly customizable typography

10 distinct fonts, easy to fine-tune font size and line-height, for the best reading experience.

Video demo

  • Two-way comments Collapsing

Not only collapsible children comments (press comment content), it can also collapse comments between itself and it's parent (press comment info bar).

Video demo

  • Scroll-down floating button

Scroll down the page by pressing or dragging the big floating button, swipe no more.

Video demo

  • Post summary (experiment)

Distill the summary (tl; dr) of a post from it's comments, save yourself from clickbait title.

Video demo

What's next

  • Improve error handling