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Hacker Bar
com.mohawkapps.hacker-bar
Hacker News in your menu bar.
If Y Combinator's Hacker News is your first and only stop for tech and startup news or just a great way to keep up with the world of technology, Hacker Bar will keep you up to date.
Hacker Bar lives in the Mac menu bar and provides a steady stream of the top news stories from the Hacker News front page. Here are some of Hacker Bar’s great features.
Hacker Bar...
- Grabs the front page from Hacker News and seamlessly refreshes them every 5 minutes (or at a customized time interval).
- Designed to be discrete.
- Puts a check mark beside each viewed story. Never again wonder if a link has been visited and use this feature to quickly jump back to any interesting article.
- Allows multiple stories to open in a new tab by group linking articles. If the web browser is open and the active application, stories will open in the background without closing the Hacker Bar menu.
- Gives easy access to comments with a click of the comment count bubble. Here, registered users can up-vote articles and get flame wars started even faster!
- Can be set to auto start on login, never missing another great Y Combinator story!
Hacker Bar will keep every person interested in the tech world hooked into the news from Y Combinator in seamless simplicity. Download the App today to quickly and discretely check Hacker News.
Hacker Bar and Mohawk Apps, LLC are not affiliated with Y Combinator or Hacker News.
"Hacker News at your fingertips."
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http://www.mohawkapps.com/apps/hacker-bar
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Hacker Bar makes a request to a server in order to get data about what to display in the menu bar item
The app will ask to start on login when it opens for the first time. The user can decline this. The app shows all the articles on the front page of the YCombinator website (https://news.ycombinator.com/) and refreshes by default every 5 minutes. Each menu item shows the upvote count, the title, and the comment count (as well as whether or not the item is an ad on their front page). You can click the comment count to be taken to the comments page in your default browser, and clicking anywhere else will take you to the article link. The system then puts a little checkbox next to the article indicating that you've opened the page.