Dimillian/SwiftHN
A Hacker News reader in Swift observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4472
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2162
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1741 stars · 280 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
SwiftHN is an open-source Hacker News reader iOS app written in Swift, published on the App Store as HN Reader. It uses its own scraping library HackerSwifter to fetch posts and comments and displays them in a native iOS interface.
Use cases
- read hacker news on iphone
- browse hacker news posts and comments natively on ios
- open-source hacker news client for ios
- save hacker news articles to safari reading list
- view hacker news user submissions
- learn how to build an ios news reader app in swift
When to choose
- you want a native iOS Hacker News reader
- you want to fork or study an open-source Swift iOS app
- you need a simple HN client with comment viewing and sharing extensions
When to avoid
- you need login, voting, or posting features (planned but not implemented)
- you need a actively maintained app with recent updates
- you need an Android or cross-platform client
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
web-scraping gui social-media mobile-development developer-tools hacker-news news-reader swift ios-app open-source-app ios mobile
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/Dimillian/SwiftHN · fetched 2026-08-28 · cb0a682f3627
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Dimillian/SwiftHN | main | 32 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="Dimillian/SwiftHN")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem