{"slug": "harmonic", "name": "Harmonic", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 4.056, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2025-12-05", "latest": "2026-10-11", "why": "I use the third-party app Harmonic to browse HN and it has a dark mode. It's quite nice, actually.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I use the third-party app Harmonic to browse HN and it has a dark mode. It's quite nice, actually.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/simonhalvdansson/harmonic-hn", "official_url": "https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Harmonic"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 800742609, "item_id": 50046413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046413", "by": "chaosmanage", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really enjoy using the Harmonic app on my android phone which has a much more modren layout", "excerpt": "Author here. First of all, thank you to the Harmonic app by Simon Halvdansson (https://github.com/SimonHalvdansson/Harmonic-HN). I know many (most?) of you prefer to use the no frills layout of the hacker news wesite and I totally respect that. But I really enjoy using the Harmonic app on my android phone which has a much more modren layout and is visually appealing and easier to use for me. I disliked using the plai", "context": "", "use_case": "Hacker News reader on Android", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: HarmoNova: A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for Chrome"}, {"id": 776524625, "item_id": 48532789, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532789", "by": "ewsbr", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Harmonic is great (they just released v3 as well), but it's Android only.", "excerpt": "I'm working on (yet another) Hacker News browser extension, mostly to scratch my own itch. The desktop experience on HN is fine, but I don't love mobile support or lack of dark mode. I've tried some alternatives, but Modern for Hacker News seems abandoned. Harmonic is great (they just released v3 as well), but it's Android only. According to Firefox the extension has a grand total of 2 users, with one of them being m", "context": "", "use_case": "Hacker News client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? 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Though I do think your tone is unusually inappropriate for a feature request.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing Hacker News", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Why we dont we have dark mode on Hacker News yet? this is not funny"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "abstractspoon", "context": "Android tablet user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813357", "date": "2026-07-06"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["reading hacker news", "hacker news client", "hacker news reader on android", "reading hacker news on android", "browsing hacker news"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046402", "title": "Show HN: HarmoNova: A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for Chrome", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929678", "title": "Ask HN: How do you use Hacker News?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810156", "title": "Ask HN: What browser extensions or front ends do you use for reading HN, if any?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528779", "title": "Ask HN: What are you working on? 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I know many (most?) of you prefer to use the no frills layout of the hacker news wesite and I totally respect that. But I really enjoy using the Harmonic app on my android phone which has a much more modren layout and is visually appealing and easier to use for me. 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The desktop experience on HN is fine, but I don't love mobile support or lack of dark mode. I've tried some alternatives, but Modern for Hacker News seems abandoned. Harmonic is great (they just released v3 as well), but it's Android only. According to Firefox the extension has a grand total of 2 users, with one of them being m", "context": "", "use_case": "Hacker News client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 743030960, "item_id": 46439435, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439435", "by": "efreak", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I'm using Harmonic HN client on Android", "excerpt": "This window refused to load until I allowed it to load Facebook. Somewhere, somehow, the content in this page will not display if the browser cannot connect to Facebook servers (I'm using Harmonic HN client on Android; it has built-in adblock for the webviews, but I use Tracker Control to block even more trackers; in this case whitelisting connect.facebook.net allowed the page to load)", "context": "", "use_case": "reading Hacker News on Android", "switched_from": "", "story": "Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High"}, {"id": 739258800, "item_id": 46203675, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203675", "by": "KomoD", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Harmonic, I've been using it for a few years.", "excerpt": "Harmonic, I've been using it for a few years.", "context": "", "use_case": "Hacker News client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's the Best HN Client?"}, {"id": 738731168, "item_id": 46170698, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46170698", "by": "gumboshoes", "date": "2025-12-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use the third-party app Harmonic to browse HN and it has a dark mode. It's quite nice, actually.", "excerpt": "I use the third-party app Harmonic to browse HN and it has a dark mode. It's quite nice, actually. Though I do think your tone is unusually inappropriate for a feature request.", "context": "", "use_case": "browsing Hacker News", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Why we dont we have dark mode on Hacker News yet? this is not funny"}]}