Yarn for Hacker News
Features:• Filter stories by home, top (powered by Algolia), new, show, ask or jobs• Multiple account logins• Submit your own links or original content• Share stories from and to other apps• Upvote, downvote and comment on stories• Collapsible comments• Color coded comment threads• Night & AMOLED modes• Read articles in readability• Search posts (powered by Algolia)
Known Issues:Logging in to the Hacker News website after logging in to Yarn will invalidate your login on Yarn. This is because Yarn stores your login cookie, instead of your password, which Hacker News invalidates when you log in via their website
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Yarn for Hacker News is an unofficial app. Hacker News and the Hacker News logo, trademark and trade dress are registered trademarks owned by Y Combinator.
Category : News & Magazines
Reviews (28)
Very Nice! Give us a few search options and this will be perfect. I'd like to see search ordered by most recent, not just most popular.
Now that I have the ability to remove ads, I couldn't be more satisfied! Worth the $2 dollars! Follows Google's material design guidelines very well! Looking forward to see how development progresses.
Not a ton of useful HN apps, but this is easily the best one. Kudos.
The one big missing feature. Glad I could remove ads
Looks pretty, but browsing occasionally breaks, comments frequently fail to post, no way to view replies, upvotes rarely work... Really wish it was open source!
Nice to get rid of the ads but the Readability feature doesn't work :-(
This is my favorite of the multitude of HN readers available.
It's well done. I really can't complain.
Not sure why when I open the application, why is it so slow to load the feed? The yc website is much faster and now has a mobile edition.
Elegantly Simple HN reader
Good collection of information
Won't open after latest update :(
I liked the basic functionality. Paid for it, but up-voting simply works maybe 10% of the time. Reported it to the dev, said he'd look into it, but almost 2 months have passed with no updates. I develop myself and hate leaving bad reviews, but up-voting really is central to HN.
Very fast, well designed and love the OLED mode. Only two annoying quirks - scrolling is choppy and feels non-native and it's too easy to trigger the context menu on a comment when you meant to scroll.
Very rarely has odd behavior (such as a blank story listing) and that only happens when my network connectivity is especially volatile. Excellent, simple app. My favorite feature is the AMOLED dark theme. Thanks!
The ads still cover the comments or articles sometimes, it's a bit buggy but does the job.
Sometimes the app will take a while to start scrolling, possibly because the app is detecting horizontal along with vertical movement. This is pretty noticeable when scrolling through comments. Other than that, loving the app
The best IMHO
Has everything and is fast. Just needs font size options too.
This has quickly become my main HN app (previously used the free one by Manuel Maly until that one started giving voting issues; I love the simplicity of that app). Just paid for the upgrade (removes ads and adds readability support) because I'd like to support the developer and maybe we can see the ability to downvote added ;)
When viewing a post and you pull to refresh, the points counter is updated but not the comments counter. Also every once in a while I get 'story not supported' or something like that. Overall a good app.
I like this app a lot and I could be replacing my old app with this, but I have a reading problem, would much preferred that you can let the user change the font size, I would prefer larger fonts. Edited: after change my phone to Asus Zenfone2 I can't login anymore. Still crashing on the newest build as of 08/21/15
I'm sure I was able to upvote posts and save them to favorites when I first installed this app, but I can no longer do so.
V1.7.8 now working great on Nexus 7, thanks Tim.
Great app, but I agree with the other review: scrolling is choppy, and it's really hurting the usability. LG G2 D802.
Great app! One small suggestion though: I realize that having adds is important but it would be nice to be able to scroll up the comments far enough to be able to read the last comment. Currently, the add blocks the last comment.
I've tried several Android HN readers and nothing comes close to this.
There is an issue with scrolling the article list, where there appears to be lag, and the list won't start scrolling until your finger is at least a certain distance from the point you started. This makes it kinda jarring and jumpy. Only real issue, but it's high impact.