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HACK: Hacker News Tech Reader Live

pranapps3 apps · 402K installsNews & MagazinesFreeIn-app purchases: $9.47 per itemcom.pranapps.hack

Technology, developer, coding, YC startup, STEM & science news reader client

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Total installs
270,842
exact · Play shows 100,000+
Installs / day
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measured after our second crawl (about a day)
Rating
4.5★
1K ratings · 24 reviews
Released
7 Aug 2021
5.2y ago
Last update
23 Sept 2026
v44.0 · 18d ago
Countries
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not checked yet

Install history

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Installs per day · last 90 days

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Change timeline

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

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We estimate where downloads come from using the app’s position in Google Play’s top charts in about 140 countries. This app is not in any chart we have collected yet; the estimate appears as soon as it is.

Top chart positions

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App manifest

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Manifest analysis reads only the required APK ranges. Base APK downloads may need separate device splits to install.

Permissions

6 in 2 groups
0 Sensitive1 Notable5 Routine
Wi-Fi connection informationRoutine1

Access to details about Wi-Fi networks your device sees or uses

  • See whether Wi-Fi is on and details of the network you are connected toview Wi-Fi connections · ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
OtherNotable5

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Keep your phone's processor or screen from going to sleep, which can use more batteryprevent device from sleeping · WAKE_LOCK
  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET
  • Make your phone vibratecontrol vibration · VIBRATE
  • Receive push messages sent from the app's servers over the internetreceive data from Internet · com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
HACK for Hacker News is the most beautiful and easy way to read about the latest programming, developer, startup, science, technology, engineering, coding, and mathematics news. With ability to vote, favorite, comment, submit new posts and receive push notifications for replies, HACK is highly customizable with the best features you would expect in a top quality client. - Login or Register your Hacker News account - PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post - Swipe to upvote, favorite, reply and hide stories & comments - Comments are presented in nested threads. Tap a comment to collapse that thread - Reply to posts & comments - Submit new link or text posts including drafts - Long press a story, link or comment to share - Toggle to block news about AI - No Ads. No subscriptions - Landscape and Portrait support - Hide read posts from the feed - Tap the bottom button to scroll to the next root comment in the thread. Long press it to go to the previous one. - All known hacker news endpoints - News, Ask HN, Show HN, Show HN Newest, trending, second chance pool, classic, active, best stories, best comments, new stories, new comments, noob stories, noob comments, jobs, over 100-500 points etc - Submit posts, reply, comment using your HN account - Browse top 100 leader accounts - Browse stories from a specific site, user or date - Archive support: View an archive of the post website. archive.is, archive.org & google cache. - Search in comments and usernames! Search is case and diacritic insensitive and ignores punctuations. - Select / highlight the comment/post title text for lookup/copy/translate - Powerful search (powered by Algolia API) - use @date to sort by date, #story to filter for stories, #comments to filter for comments, #author_username to filter by user etc. These tags can be separated by commas. Refer to https://hn.algolia.com/api for more tags. - Dark mode - both pure black and gray mode and many other color choices - Low contrast text mode to make the text not be pure white #FFFFFF - Many theme color choices for customization - Font choices & sizes to make the design exactly to your liking - Share comment as image - Threaded comments with color bar to maintain visual orientation - Articles open in built in webview with Reader Mode. Ability to use other browsers too. - Play articles as audio with Text to Speech. - Tap the domain in a story to see all stories from that site - Tap the username in a story or comment to go to the user profile - Browse your submitted stories and comments, favorited stories and comments, upvoted stories and comments, hidden stories - High quality favicons for articles as HN doesn't provide any images. I run my own server for this so if you would like to help me support server costs, please buy the small one time in app purchase. It also unlocks custom fonts, themes, settings customizations and supports future update development. All stories and comments are via Algolia API and Hacker News API: https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/api https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Profile picture robots lovingly delivered by Robohash.org I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the play store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, please purchase the one time in app purchase. No subscriptions. Thank you for your support! Send any feedback or feature requests to Pran at: [email protected] HACK for Hacker News is not affiliated with Y Combinator. NOTE: This app is not meant to hack anything. This app is meant for reading articles on Hacker News website. Do not download this app thinking it will help you hack something.

What's new

- Updated the built in browser. - Added a highly requested setting to block AI posts. - Added formatting for code blocks and quoted text. - Time icon on posts is now hidden by default to reduce text wrapping. This can be toggled in settings. I offer an ad & analytics free app. If you would like to support development, please purchase the one time in app purchase. No subscriptions. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a review on the play store. Send me feedback: [email protected]

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