I couldn't find a HackerNews client that runs on macOS, built with native technologies (AppKit), and has all of the features I was interested in: up/d

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I couldn't find a HackerNews client that runs on macOS, built with native technologies (AppKit), and has all of the features I was interested in: up/downvote features, commenting, hiding/favoriting, etc...

This app is still highly WIP, and it's not the best code in the world. If you have any ideas to make the code cleaner, Swiftier, or really have any idea, PRs are welcomed!

Also welcomed is trivial bug reports, I would like to fix bugs that are lying on the ground but as I use the app daily, it's hard for me to find out very obvious bugs because I'm so used to it. Every bug report helps, including very trivial ones. Thanks in advance.

I wrote the HNAPI package for interfacing with HN. It handles communicating with both the HN official API, the Algolia HN API, and the HackerNews site.

If you're writing a new HN client (for any platform), you might want to gleam the code, I've put in a lot of thoughts in the design. There's probably a bit more design aspects that I have to think about, but it's pretty much the fastest and the most robust approach to interfacing HN that I could think.

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