Hews
A hacker news reader focuses on readng experience with some handy features.
Basic features
- Clear nested comments
- Three 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
- Open hacker news links from other app
- Open post/other links in external browser
- Check User's HN profile (long press)
- Share comment link/content (long press)
- Material design
- Open source
Special features
- Highly customizable typography
10 distinct fonts, easy to fine-tune font size and line-height, for the best reading experience.
- Two-way comments Collapsing
Not only collapsible children comments (press comment content), it can also collapse comments between itself and it's parent (press comment info bar).
- Scroll-down floating button
Scroll down the page by pressing or dragging the big floating button, swipe no more.
- Post summary (experiment)
Distill the summary (tl; dr) of a post from it's comments, save yourself from clickbait title.
What's next
- Improve error handling