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Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Post by coldtea »

luma wrote: post #49
taude wrote: post #36

Congrats and building and releasing something. I guess for reading things like this, I'm just a browser kind-of guy. But I still appreciate youre building a NATIVE app that's using around 85MB of working memory (according to my Activity Monotor), and not some Electron thing. I'm probably just a anti-app guy, but I tried it out. First thing I went to do was CMD-F to search for some strings in the comments section. Act…

I've never understood the concept of an app wrapper for a link aggregator (HN, reddit, etc). The whole goal is to provide links to external sources, and now I'm browsing the web in a limited web browser without all my extensions etc. Am I missing some core concept here? Why would I want to browse the web in this app as opposed to a web browser?

>The whole goal is to provide links to external sources

For many the whole goal is the comments on those links.

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Post by killingtime74 »

luma wrote: post #49
taude wrote: post #36

Congrats and building and releasing something. I guess for reading things like this, I'm just a browser kind-of guy. But I still appreciate youre building a NATIVE app that's using around 85MB of working memory (according to my Activity Monotor), and not some Electron thing. I'm probably just a anti-app guy, but I tried it out. First thing I went to do was CMD-F to search for some strings in the comments section. Act…

I've never understood the concept of an app wrapper for a link aggregator (HN, reddit, etc). The whole goal is to provide links to external sources, and now I'm browsing the web in a limited web browser without all my extensions etc. Am I missing some core concept here? Why would I want to browse the web in this app as opposed to a web browser?

You're reading the articles from here? (I kid)

Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Post by IronsideXXVI »

IronsideXXVI wrote: post #135
greedo wrote: post #130

Really nice app! I would love the ability to override dark mode (I use it for my desktop, but sometimes want a specific app in “normal” mode).

Good idea, I’ll add Light, Dark, and System controls.

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Re: Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

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Post by IronsideXXVI »

IronsideXXVI wrote: post #88
mojuba wrote: post #9

I'm a big fan of Swift (and SwiftUI), such a concise and elegant language. Beauty. Also I appreciate how you made all backend calls just static functions which they always should be. People tend to overcomplicate these things and add a lot of boiler plate and unnecessary bureaucracy. Going to try your app, thank you! P.S. tried it, already miss the `threads` tab

I need to add this! Will work on that for the next release.

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