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Dimillian/SwiftHN

A Hacker News reader in Swift observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Dimillian/SwiftHN · Swift · GPL-2.0 (copyleft) 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

Full methodology

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

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
Dimillian/SwiftHNmain32

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="Dimillian/SwiftHN")

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