Hacker News for the desktop

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  • Automatically loads new articles

    New articles are automatically loaded if you scrolled down far enough on the "Top Stories" list

  • Keyboard shortcuts

    You can easily navigate the app using Vim like keyboard shortcuts, there's a complete list here or just press h in the app

  • Website / comment split screen

    You can view website and comments next to each other or cycle through the different display modes using the shortcut l

  • Readability included

    Some websites have a terrible reading experience but you can use Readability inside the app to fix that

  • Awesome comment navigation

    You can navigate the comments using keyboard shortcuts and fold them which makes a great comment reading experience

  • PDF support

    Reading PDFs inside the app is no problem, it's automatically detected when to display a PDF reader

  • Read stories are remembered

    Read stories are marked as such, just like in the browser

  • Polls

    Things that other HN apps usually forget are included, e.g. viewing HN polls right inside the app

  • It's Open Source!

    It's open source and on GitHub, you can contribute to it or just change it however you like :)