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Hacker Menu
Menu bar app that lists top Hacker News stories; built with Electron and last released in October 2015.
Unmaintained · Free download · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- owenthereal
- Verified
- 2026
Unmaintained
No release since October 2015 and no commit since December 2015, as of 6 November 2026.
About Hacker Menu
Hacker Menu keeps the top stories from Hacker News in the menu bar, so headlines are one click away. It suits people who check the front page through the day and do not want a browser tab open for it.
The project is built with Electron. Its last release, 1.1.5, is from October 2015. The README gives no minimum macOS version and does not say whether the build is signed or notarized.
Information
- Source code
- owenthereal/hacker-menu
- License
- MIT
- Website
- hackermenu.io
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Internet
- Topics
- Menu bar apps, RSS readers
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/owenthereal/hacker-menu
- github.com/owenthereal/hacker-menu/blob/master/LICENSE
- github.com/owenthereal/hacker-menu/releases
- hackermenu.io
- icon.png: Jingwen Owen Ou and Hacker Menu contributors. MIT; upstream app icon, trademarks retained.
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