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CLUSTER HACKER-NEWS-STORIES · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2021-05-03

Hacker News reader apps

The cluster comprises mobile clients for browsing, reading, and commenting on Hacker News stories, with some offering offline reading, themes, or ad-free experiences. Its dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as fewer than five dated entries predate the index, and the members may be undated or predate tracking. Traction leaders are Kiosk, Materialistic Nouveau, and Glider for Hacker News, all tied at zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

APR 2013: 1MAY 2021: 1JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1
APR 2013AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 1 unlabelled

Operator · 4 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Kiosk0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceDistraction-free Android reader for Hacker News that lets users browse top and new stories, search history, and read comments.
  2. 02Materialistic Nouveau0★20 dayslivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid client for browsing, searching, and commenting on Hacker News stories with offline reading and multiple themes.
  3. 03HN0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile client for Hacker News that lets users read articles, comment, upvote, and customize display options.
  4. 04Glider for Hacker News0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMobile client that browses and reads Hacker News stories and discussion threads without advertisements.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.