Full Changelog: 5.1...5.1.1

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Full Changelog: 5.0.0...5.1

This is the biggest update Hackers has had in over a decade: a complete rewrite of the app with a modern iOS foundation.
It’s faster, smoother, and more maintainable — built to deliver the best Hacker News experience on iPhone and iPad for years to come.

✨ Highlights

• All-new codebase — rebuilt with modern Swift and iOS frameworks for long-term stability and performance.
• Fresh design — cleaner typography, improved spacing, refined dark mode, and polished visuals.
• Comment threads — collapse/expand replies instantly, with smoother navigation through deep conversations.
• New “Active” feed — see trending discussions on Hacker News in real time.
• Improved gestures — more responsive swipe actions for voting and navigation.
• Performance — optimised feed pagination and rendering for faster browsing.
• Accessibility — better VoiceOver support, full Dynamic Type, and high-contrast themes.
• Native everywhere — iPad multitasking, Safari View Controller, Share Extension (“Open in Hackers”), Apple Silicon Mac, and visionOS support.
• Privacy — as always, Hackers collects no data.

🛠 Developer Notes

• Project refactored into clean architecture.
• Minimum deployment target: iOS/iPadOS 26.
• Foundation in place for future features and iterative updates.

🙏 Thanks

A huge thank you to everyone who has used Hackers, filed issues, contributed code, or shared feedback.
Hackers 5.0 sets the foundation for the next decade of Hacker News on iOS — and we’re excited to keep building on it together.

📥 Download

• App Store

What's Changed

• Sync app extension bundle version with main by @weiran in #291
• Appex version by @weiran in #292
• Add Swift Testing base by @weiran in #293
• Add Active category to Hacker News feed by @weiran in #295
• Fix pagination for Ask feed and other feeds with fewer posts by @weiran in #296
• Fix crash when tapping Hacker News comment permalinks by @weiran in #297
• Fix empty comment appearing at top of non-Ask HN posts by @weiran in #299
• Release 4.9.3 by @weiran in #298

Full Changelog: 4.9.2...4.9.3

What's Changed

• 4.9.2 release by @weiran in #290

Full Changelog: 4.9.1...4.9.2

What's Changed

• Update CI by @Fdawgs in #281
• 4.9 release by @weiran in #282
• Add toggle for the quick comments button by @weiran in #285
• Fix action extension by @weiran in #286
• 4.9.1 Release Changes by @weiran in #287

Full Changelog: 4.9.0...4.9.1

What's Changed

• Comments Improvements by @weiran in #266
• Provisioning & CI Update by @weiran in #276
• [CI] Update bundler to v2 by @weiran in #277
• Rubygems update by @weiran in #280
• Make thumbnails for internal news.ycombinator.com posts tappable by @claucambra in #271
• Add navigation to comments from the article by @stanno-ios in #274

New Contributors

• @claucambra made their first contribution in #271
• @stanno-ios made their first contribution in #274

Full Changelog: 4.8.0...4.9.0

What's Changed

• Email Subject by @weiran in #263
• Comment count refresh [bug fix] by @BeIllegalBeagle in #265
• Copy and select text menu items by @BeIllegalBeagle in #264

New Contributors

• @BeIllegalBeagle made their first contribution in #265

Full Changelog: 4.7.12...4.8.0

What's Changed

• Compress images by @Fdawgs in #252
• Consolidate image files by @weiran in #253
• Adapt to new HN HTML by @weiran in #256

Full Changelog: 4.7.8...4.7.11

What's Changed

• Fix URL appearing in titles by @weiran in #248
• Remove URL from title and SwiftLint from homebrew for apple silicon by @SR42 in #249
• Merging in #249 by @weiran in #251

New Contributors

• @SR42 made their first contribution in #249

Full Changelog: 4.7.6...4.7.8