HackerNewsWatch (watchOS)

A minimal Hacker News reader for Apple Watch built with SwiftUI.

• Scrollable top stories feed with title, points, and comments count
• Tap a story to view comments in a simple tree-style view
• "Open Article" link at the top opens the article in the watch browser
• HN-like styling (orange accent)

Requirements

• Xcode 15 or newer
• macOS with command line tools
• Homebrew (for XcodeGen) or install XcodeGen manually

Generate the Xcode project

./scripts/generate.sh

This will install XcodeGen if needed and generate HackerNewsWatch.xcodeproj.

Build

./scripts/build.sh

• To run on the latest available watchOS Simulator and auto-launch the app:

./scripts/run-sim.sh

• The script will pick a recent Apple Watch simulator runtime and boot it. You can also open the generated HackerNewsWatch.xcodeproj in Xcode and run there.

Project layout

• project.yml – XcodeGen spec
• Sources/WatchApp – Swift sources for the watch app
• scripts/ – helper scripts to generate and build

Privacy

The app accesses the public Hacker News API over HTTPS and does not collect or store personal data.

License

MIT