Hack
my Hacker News mobile client now lets you block AI posts
Details
- External ID
- 49802005
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- —
- Website domain
- —
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6220095693779905
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
Description
Hello HN!I am the developer for HACK, a hacker news client that I have been building and maintaining for over 8 years now on iOS, iPadOS, MacOS and Android.Wanted to share this news as there's been a ton of interest in these features recently.Now, you can block AI related posts in the app. You can also disable infinite scrolling to prevent you from doomscrolling.To enable these, go to app's home screen, then go to settings (top right), then scroll all the way to the bottom and enable these settings.You can see an example of the effectiveness of the AI blocking toggle below. Across 3 pages of the HN front page which would typically load 90 posts (30 posts per page), a total of 32 post titles were blocked:https://imgur.com/a/QtcHArFFull list of all titles which were blocked can be seen here:https://pastebin.com/HWnv3KrFYou can see this list of blocked posts by tapping the menu button, then "See Blocked Posts".Currently, these features are available on Apple platforms. I am adding them to the Android client at this moment too.You can try the Apple versions here:https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc-reader...Feel free to ask questions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hacker news mobile client with ai post blocking
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A Hacker News client is a standard API reader, and adding client-side keyword or lightweight classification filters to hide AI-related stories is simple UI and string matching logic.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Built-in browser version is outdated and blocked by sites
Feature requests: Upgrade built-in browser
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Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
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