Octal for Hacker News 4.16.2

Octal is a comprehensive news feed that delivers up-to-the-minute tech news and fosters engaging discussions, conveniently accessible on your iPhone and iPad.

The app boasts a sleek and intuitive design, prioritizing the aspects that matter most to you: design, speed, and usability. Octal stands out as the ultimate Hacker News application, offering a wide range of features.

Embrace an unparalleled source of community-powered stories, covering topics from self-driving cars to the latest Apple gadgets. Octal empowers you with essential features such as voting on stories, submitting posts, commenting, and managing favorites. Best of all, it does away with distractions like ads, subscriptions, and tracking. Put simply, Octal is the ideal choice for staying informed about the latest trending tech headlines.

• News for Nerds: Explore and share the most significant stories in the tech industry, as submitted and voted on by Hacker News users. The constantly updating content centers around programming, startups, technology companies (such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Uber), and key technology categories like mobile technology, computers, internet, design, coding, and security.
• Engage and Vote: Express your opinion by voting on stories and comments that resonate with you or reporting objectionable content. If you come across an article you'd like to read later, simply add it to your favorites.
• Discuss the News: Immerse yourself in thought-provoking discussions about the news by effortlessly navigating through fast, fully-threaded comment threads. Engage with others by adding your own comments. For fast readers, jump to the next top-level comment thread with a single tap.
• Submit Links: Share intriguing stories or news links directly to Hacker News via the Octal app. You can also quickly submit links to Octal.
• Search Stories: Conveniently search for Hacker News stories and sort the search results by relevance or date.
• Join the Community: Sign in or register with Hacker News to easily track your karma, activity, and favorites. Browse user profiles, accessing information like karma, about section, activity, and favorites.
• Themeable: Enjoy full support for Total Dark Mode. Opt for 'True Black' mode, utilizing a pure RGB #000 background color for devices with OLED displays.
• Customize Your News Feed: Seamlessly switch between story filters such as 'Top Stories', 'Ask HN', 'Show HN', 'Best Stories', 'New Stories', and 'Jobs'. Arrange them according to your preferences.
• Accessible: Adjust the text size to suit your comfort level, or enable 'Dynamic Type' to use the system's 'Larger Text' font size. Octal also fully supports VoiceOver.
• Deep Link Support: Easily open Hacker News links in Octal by sharing them with the app. You can also use compatible apps like 'Opener' for seamless integration. Most Hacker News links starting with 'octal://' are supported.
• Ready for Any Screen: Octal offers an optimized interface for iPads, featuring an optional 2-pane layout to maximize screen utilization.
• Web Browser Support: Open links in your preferred web browser seamlessly.
• Ad-Free & Privacy-Conscious: Experience Octal without any distractions, such as ads, subscriptions, or tracking mechanisms.

About Octal Premium: For enhanced functionality, including the ability to submit posts, add comments, manage favorites, switch themes, change app icons, and utilize custom gestures, you have the option to purchase Octal Premium through an In-App Purchase. Octal Premium is a one-time payment with no subscription. Rest assured that your purchase supports the ongoing development of Octal by its sole developer.

About Hacker News: Hacker News serves as a social news website dedicated to computer science and entrepreneurship. Operated by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator, it seeks to gratify user's intellectual curiosity. Think of Hacker News as a tech-specific version of Reddit—an essential tech news aggregator.

Support: Encountered a bug or have a feature request? Create an Issue on GitHub or reach out via email: https://github.com/dangwu/Octal/issues