HacKit is a beautiful reader for reading Hacker News on the Mac. It emphasises on a simplified reading experience built for the macOS design language. FEATURES • Track stories you have read, favourited or hidden. • Organise stories into folders. • Organise the sidebar by drag and drop. • Supports Touch Bar. • Keyboard shortcuts. • Search stories and polls from Algolia or the latest feeds from Hacker News. • Drag a Hacker News story link and drop it on to HacKit app icon to read the story on HacKit. • Customise story author badge colour. • Coloured comments indentation. • Supports multiple windows to focus on reading a story. • Read any Hacker News story by copying and pasting the link in HacKit by clicking, Open Story from URL... (⇧⌘O) menu option. • View user profiles. • and many more. Made by a British developer from London, England, UK. Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? I would love to hear from you. You can tweet me on Twitter, @anosidium or GitHub, https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-Feedback-And-Support What is Hacker News? Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” — Wikipedia
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• Adds the Oliphaunt tab to the Preferences/Settings window • Updates references from Twitter to X • Adds “Developer’s Bluesky Account” command to the Help menu What is Oliphaunt? It is my new Mac app for Mastodon, a federated social network built on the ActivityPub protocol. You can find it in the Preferences/Settings window or search for it on the App Store. Rest assured, HacKit will support macOS Tahoe along with other new features and refinements. I have been busy building Oliphaunt, so that’s where my time went. Please report all bugs, crashes and inconsistencies to me by opening an issue on GitHub. I would greatly appreciate it. No, really! If you like the app, please leave a rating or a review. I would appreciate it a lot! Yes, truly! Questions? Suggestions? Bugs? Crashes? I would love to hear from you. You can contact me on X at @anosidum On Mastodon at @anosidium@mastodon.social Or on Bluesky at @anosidium.bsky.social You can find these links in the Help menu. Alternatively, you can reach me on GitHub at https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-App