Show HN: HN v0.2.1 – Native macOS app for reading HN

[120-dev]

Hey HN folks,

Last week I released the first public version of 120 HN — a fully native Hacker News client for macOS. This week, I'm excited to share version 0.2.1 with some essential updates:

The app now remembers window size, position, and sidebar state between sessions

Improved AI summaries: more concise, relevant with link back to the comments, easier to read with short paragraph form.

Minor tweaks to navigation and layout for a smoother experience

Sneak peek: local LLM support is coming in the next release.

As always, the app is free to use. Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated.

Thanks for checking it out.

[FerkiHN]

Bro, this is a great project, besides saving mobile traffic, it also allows you to quickly load and read various posts, but for future improvement, I would like to have auto-recode posts like in Google.

[120-dev]

Thanks for the kind words, Ferki! I would look into auto-recode, but it will be much helpful to understand more about how it would help in 120 HN.

[FerkiHN]

Oh, I think I wrote it wrong, I meant translating posts from one language to another.

[120-dev]

Got you! I think the ability to translate HN posts is definitely helpful for a lot of people. I think it will be possible to do so when the message input is ready. User can ask LLMs to translate the post.

[akoculu]

congrats!

[120-dev]

Thanks! I just hope the app is useful and I could gather feedbacks to help build other app of 120.dev!