Hacker News Unofficial

With its slightly different approach towards creating a community, based solely on upvotes, Hacker News is one of the most popular social news websites with a strong focus towards computer science and technology in general.

If you spend a lot of time browsing content on Hacker News, you might be interested in moving the feed from your web browser directly to your computer's desktop.

Fortunately, with the help of Hacker News Unofficial, you can now watch and read everything that's of interest for you on the website within a distraction-free and ultra-simplistic interface.

This is a good time to point out that Electron-based piece of software is actually a wrapper for the Hacker News web app. Nevertheless, finding your way around the feed and jumping from one article to another is possible in a similar fashion to that of using a typical web browser.

The utility can be used to read any article but, evidently, for anything more (upvote, comment and so forth) you are required to log in using your official Hacker News credentials.

Despite its overall simplicity, you do get a set of benefits over the option of accessing the feed via a web browser.

For example, from the Themes menu, you can choose from a small collection of skins and make browsing the Hacker News feed more friendly towards your eyes according to the level of light that surrounds you in the present moment.   Also quite handy are the few options accessible from the View menu. You can effortlessly copy links or reload the feed page you are currently visiting but the most useful of the lot is surely the self-explanatory option named 'Go Back'.

While it does not stand much chance of impressing anyone, Hacker News Unofficial proves itself to be a very useful app for those who are looking for a hassle-free way of getting relevant information about technology and computer science and are fed up using a browser in order to achieve this.