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HNClient

Comfortably read Hacker News without having to open an endless amount of tabs anymore. You can choose articles to view from a sidebar and can optionally read articles and their comments next to each other on a split screen.

Switch between stories using the sidebar

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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HNClient information

  • Developed by

    Florian Hartmann
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Alternatives

    17 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is HNClient?

Comfortably read Hacker News without having to open an endless amount of tabs anymore. You can choose articles to view from a sidebar and can optionally read articles and their comments next to each other on a split screen.

Feature overview

Automatically loads new articles New articles are automatically loaded if you scrolled down far enough on the "Top Stories" list

Keyboard shortcuts You can easily navigate the app using Vim like keyboard shortcuts, there's a complete list here or just press h in the app

Website / comment split screen You can view website and comments next to each other or cycle through the different display modes using the shortcut l Readability included Some websites have a terrible reading experience but you can use Readability inside the app to fix that

Awesome comment navigation You can navigate the comments using keyboard shortcuts and fold them which makes a great comment reading experience

PDF support Reading PDFs inside the app is no problem, it's automatically detected when to display a PDF reader Read stories are remembered Read stories are marked as such, just like in the browser

Polls Things that other HN apps usually forget are included, e.g. viewing HN polls right inside the app

It's Open Source! It's open source and on GitHub, you can contribute to it or just change it however you like :)