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HacKit

HacKit is a beautiful reader for reading Hacker News on the Mac. It emphasises on a simplified reading experience built for the macOS design language.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Hacker News
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  • Developed by

    Ammad Ur Rehman
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Alternatives

    18 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is HacKit?

HacKit is a beautiful reader for reading Hacker News on the Mac. It emphasises on a simplified reading experience built for the macOS design language.

FEATURES

• Track stories you have read, favourited or hidden. • Organise stories into folders. • Organise the sidebar by drag and drop. • Supports Touch Bar. • Keyboard shortcuts. • Search stories and polls from Algolia or the latest feeds from Hacker News. • Drag a Hacker News story link and drop it on to HacKit app icon to read the story on HacKit. • Customise story author badge colour. • Coloured comments indentation. • Supports multiple windows to focus on reading a story. • Read any Hacker News story by copying and pasting the link in HacKit by clicking, Open Story from URL... (??O) menu option. • View user profiles. • and many more.

Made by a British developer from London, England, UK.

Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me on Twitter, @anosidium or GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support

What is Hacker News?

Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” — Wikipedia