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Hews for Hacker News

Hews is a Hacker News client focuses on reading experience with some unique features. And it's open source.
Basic features


• Clear nested comments with two-way collapsing
• Four 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
• Post bookmarking
• Open hacker news links by this app
• Open post in build-in or external browser
• Check User's HN profile (long press)
• Share comment link/content (long press)
• Material design
• Open source (https://github.com/leavjenn/Hews)Unique features


* Highly customizable typography10 distinct fonts, easy to fine-tune font size and line-height, for the best reading experience.Video demo: https://youtu.be/gGyW0LxO9wg


* Two-way comments CollapsingNot only collapsible children comments (press comment content), it can also collapse comments between itself and it's parent (press comment info bar).Video demo: https://youtu.be/FT4aFFUzFIo


* Scroll-down floating buttonScroll down the page by pressing or draging the big floating button, swipe no more. Video demo: https://youtu.be/kuffdR2GCqU


* Post summary (TL; DR)Distill the summary (tl; dr) of a post from it's comments, save yourself from clickbait title. Notice that this feature is still in test.Video demo: https://youtu.be/Yrr4OiqGf7UDISCLAIMERHews is an unofficial Hacker News Android app, and it is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Y Combinator.

Category : News & Magazines

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Reviews (26)

Lev. May 8, 2022     

Great app. One thing that should be fixed. When the ilapp no goes into the background and then comes back into the foreground, I lose where I was and goes back to the main news page. So if I'm reading a long comment thread, I lose it and have to find the story again and scroll back to where I was.

Nir. P. Jul 8, 2020     

Love the app. One of the best HN reader apps I've found for Android. My only complaint is that the app doesn't have option to export bookmarks. So if I switch to a new device, all my bookmarks will be lost. Dev , please add the ability to share/export out bookmarks to Google drive or other cloud storage providers.

Jas. K. Jul 13, 2020     

The app is good but imo the "expanding white circle" animation is really annoying, especially on dark mode in a dark room. It's too bright and too flashy. I wish it could be disabled. Another feature id like is if you could scroll down to the next "top level comment". This is a feature Relay for Reddit had that is a great feature.

Mic. M. Jul 2, 2020     

Thanks dev, very nice app and I am using it primarily because it easily collapses sub-threads with a single tap. Two requests: Please add the ability to edit comments and the ability to view+edit my profile.

And. B. Mar 10, 2020     

Excellent reader. My only wish would be for the link domains to be in a darker colour. It's a light grey and can be hard to read.

Zac. G. Nov 23, 2018     

Great dark theme. UI is clean. One thing missing is quick access to your own user profile, subs and comments.

Ker. G. Nov 26, 2020     

Good app. Being able to collapse single comments would be great, and maybe add the option to make collapsed comments take smaller screen space. Also, setting for tapping on post and going to comments directly would be nice.

Jon. L. Nov 3, 2020     

Efficient and simple but has kinks. What's with the Orange Dot story dragging? That thing flies everywhere and can be dragged out of the screen.

Kev. L. Dec 8, 2019     

Downvote says the upvote succeeded. On my phone, some things are in a very light font. No amount of fiddling makes it better. Collapsing comments is not persistent, and that would be nice.

Fra. G. Dec 4, 2018     

Please, add a way to preserve state and mark as read on scroll? State is needed to save position when browsing popular by time range

Edu. C. Nov 13, 2020     

Consider adding an option to display a certain number of entries per page instead of continuous scrolling. The "Reddit Is Fun" client has a similar option.

GTB. May 21, 2020     

I was not searching for this, but I came across it and decided to check it out. Wow, I'm so glad I did. There is nothing but interesting articles and links. All recent ones to. I had a hard time putting my phone down to begin with. Now I think I will just give up on trying 😂

Hem. K. May 16, 2022     

Wish there was an option to export and import bookmarks

Seb. G. Sep 16, 2020     

Only problem is the bottom home button menu bar is still white in dark theme. Otherwise 5 stars.

Ant. G. Jul 3, 2020     

Love the app but im not able to see comments which is frustrating. Would love too but besides that still great content.

Bri. Oct 15, 2019     

Love the dark themes but the bar at the bottom with the three Android buttons is still white.

Le. C. Jul 29, 2020     

Wonderful app. Doesn't get in the way and allows me to browse HN efficiently.

Tom. E. May 11, 2020     

Simple and effective with nice don't options. I do like bookmarking feature too!🤘🤘

Tra. N. Nov 3, 2019     

Amazing app, would love it if you could export/import bookmarks.

R. N. Jan 20, 2020     

Great app. Please allow to set theme to the system setting instead of manually setting it.

Mil. S. Jun 4, 2019     

It wold be nice if the app could work offline after initially loading content

A. G. u. Nov 6, 2018     

App has had no maintenance update since the last release in 2016... has it been abandoned?

Ben. R. May 6, 2020     

There's an issue with loading the comments after you've viewed the article. Clicking the comments icon just loads a blank page.

Yav. I. Jun 5, 2019     

Nice app but I can't figure how to bookmark articlrs in the app, not in chrome. How do I go about that? Cheers. Five stars once I figure it.

Raf. E. Jan 24, 2020     

Good app, but why does the privacy policy in the app open Google Maps?

sam. j. Feb 5, 2022     

what I love about this HN reader is that .. you can bookmark to Chrome easly