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Re:Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit... by 7961636B6572 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:15PM (#20687911)
It's a mix of Electron & native code (Swift). I have done so many optimizations to make it lightweight, smooth and fast. If you have an older Mac, try it on it and see how fast it is. I use Apple Mail app for my emails and for my benchmarks so far, Yack works faster and smoother than Apple Mail.

Give it a try and don't forget to report back here :)

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Re:Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit... by deca6cda37d0 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:30PM (#20688088)
It's really not. Even on my MacBook Air 2019 loading of the different communities is slow. Feedback for example at least takes 3,4,5 seconds. While Apple Mail is measurable in milliseconds.

Also when logging into hacker news it's loading an internal web view instead of a popup, a popup safari web view would be better because of password autofill.

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Re:Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit... by ngold on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:24PM (#20689313)
Sweet, great work. Does it work on an ipad3?
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Re:Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit... by zapzupnz on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:23AM (#20694108)
Does anything still work on an iPad 3? I would have thought a lot of newer apps target iOS 10 or higher by now.
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