Glider for Hacker News
Glider is an opinionated Hacker News client. Ad-free, open-source, no-nonsense.
Glider for Hacker News - Ad-Free Client
"Glider for Hacker News" is an opinionated, ad-free Android client that allows users to browse stories, comments, and user profiles on Hacker News. This open-source app offers features like story and comment voting, searching historical stories, and experimental capabilities for writing replies and submitting new stories. Users can collapse comment trees and log in with their Hacker News accounts. Source code is available on GitHub for those interested in contributing.
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Other: full network access
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App summary
Glider is an opinionated Hacker News client. Ad-free, open-source, no-nonsense.
• Browse stories, comments and user profiles
• Catch up on and search stories from any period
• Log in using an existing or new Hacker News account
• Vote on and favorite stories and comments
• Write replies and submit new stories (experimental)
• Collapse comment trees
Source code is available at https://github.com/Mosc/Glider. Don't hesitate to submit an issue if you'd like to see anything improved.
Uses the official Hacker News API hosted on Firebase and the Hacker News Search API provided by Algolia.
User reviews
Worked well but recently stopped loading the website, and instead just shows the splash screen
by 
James Giles, 2024-11-09
James Giles, 2024-11-09Ui is not good. No seprator between stories. 3 star for the effort. Improve the styling.
by 
Nithin Muraleedharan, 2024-10-25
Nithin Muraleedharan, 2024-10-25Great App with lots of pre stuff. Needs an editor badly, copy and paste stuff help. Evolve to the browser incorporated level
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Raymond M. P. Marotta, 2024-10-17
Raymond M. P. Marotta, 2024-10-17