HN Reader

HN Reader is now on macOS.

The web-based Hacker News reader you may have bookmarked has been rebuilt as an open-source native macOS app.

  • Smart filtering — set a minimum point threshold to surface only the stories worth your time
  • Unread tracking — new stories are marked so you never miss what's fresh
  • Background updates — configurable polling keeps your feed current with a dock badge count
  • Lightweight & private — reads directly from the public HN API, no accounts, no tracking
HNReader macOS app showing a list of Hacker News stories with points, comments, and relative timestamps

Install

Homebrew

brew tap tbeseda/tap
brew install --cask hn-reader

Manual download

Grab HNReader.zip from the latest release, unzip, and move to /Applications.

View source on GitHub