Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I built HN Station because I love reading Hacker News, but I always found it frustrating to jump back and forth between article links and comment tabs. I wanted a fluid, unified interface that allowed me to skim both simultaneously while preserving my privacy. Since I wanted it to be blazingly fast and local-first, I skipped the traditional SaaS model and built a native desktop utility. It runs a Go backend alongside an Electron frontend, storing your reading history entirely in a local SQLite database. A couple of fun technical details under the hood: • It utilizes SQLite FTS5 for instant full-text search across your history. • It features a flat-file tag_mappings.json configuration, giving you a custom "query expansion" engine where you can map broad topics (like #LLM) to multiple technical synonyms. • If you have Ollama running locally (or plug in an API key), an optional side panel uses local models to give you instant bullet-point summaries of long articles. This entire app was fully designed and built over the last two months by 'vibe-coding' with the Google Antigravity agent IDE, which was an incredible engineering experience in its own right. It's completely open-source, lightweight, and free. Check out the web preview at hnstation.dev or grab the desktop binaries on GitHub. I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any features you'd like to see next!

Hacker News Station

Local-first Hacker News client with SQLite FTS5 & AI

Local-first Hacker News client with SQLite FTS5 & AI