AI · alternatives · 2026

A Hacker News for X is a community platform that allows users to create and moderate their own topic-specific communities by visiting any URL path and establishing it as a new sub. Similar to Reddit's subreddit model… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier. A Hacker News for X launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1IM
   I made a Hacker News for podcasts▲367

   2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →

2. 2TH
   This Hacker News Does Not Exist▲252

   2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →

3. 3HN
   Hacker News user blogroll▲937

   I saw this [0] pretty cool thread by user revskill, and wanted a quicker way to search through it, but also to keep them all in one place so I can read them at my leisure whenever I get time. Right now is like 60 lines of Ruby using Nokogiri, but I will certainly look into it further down the line and improve the list. There's a cronjob checking the thread every 12 hours but I will eventually shut that down and it will become static after that. There are some really awesome blogs in there. I really recommend going through the list, it made my day. [0] "Could you share your personal blog…

   2023 · dm.hn · its alternatives →

4. 4
   I built an interactive HN Simulator▲538

   Hey HN! Just for fun, I built an interactive Hacker News Simulator. You can submit text posts and links, just like the real HN. But on HN Simulator, all of the comments are generated by LLMs + generate instantly. The best way to use it (IMHO) is to submit a text post or a curl-able URL here: https://news.ysimulator.run/submit. You don't need an account to post. When you do that, various prompts will be built from a library of commenter archetypes, moods, and shapes. The AI commenters will actually respond to your text post and/or submitted link. I really wanted it to feel…

   Nov 2025 · news.ysimulator.run · its alternatives →

5. 5AA
   Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews▲119

   For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549 It works with comments, too: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253 Hastily-developed source: https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com

   2022 · its alternatives →

6. 6FH
   Fake Hacker News – See what HN has to say before you post▲107

   Hi HN! I’ve been lurking for a while, but out of fear of being steamrolled by HN readers or maybe just natural introversion, I’ve always been too scared to post or comment. Which is why 1. this is my first real Hacker News submission 2. my friend Michael and I built "Fake" Hacker News, a place to post and see what AI-generated HN comments might say. Here’s a video of me using fakeHN to test this very submission: https://www.loom.com/share/4b9f4f9d7c77489a86baeb92ec55a1ed?... And an example of one of our generated posts:…

   2023 · fakehn.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   My recommendation engine for Hacker News▲314

   Hi! I’m Julien and I built a recommendation engine for Hacker News. I feel like this website is a gold mine. Every day, I find some very interesting stories about a topic. And sometimes, I want to find other stories covering that same topic but I can’t. Hacker News has years of history of awesome discussion and ressources. Unfortunately, I think HN Algolia isn’t helpful in searching these old threads. As a student, I want to learn a lot from this website. This is why I created HN Recommend. Input a sentence or the URL of an article, and get the most popular and similar posts from Hacker…

   2023 · hn-recommend.julienc.me · its alternatives →

8. 8
   I made a search engine for Hacker News▲211

   I love HN but always felt the search with algolia is okay but does have some limitations. Since I work at Vectara I decided to try and create a better search for HN. It's based on data from roughly the last 6 months of HN stories and comments. Would love to hear feedback and how useful this is relative to the existing search.

   2024 · hackernews.demo.vectara.com · its alternatives →

9. 9HN
   Hacker News Comments▲189

   2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →

10. 10IB
    I built a Hacker News inspired newsboard for AI and robotics▲68

    Hey my name is Crisa and this is my first post here on HN. I love this site and it inspired me to build a clone of it for my newsletter. Instead of having a boring landing page, I hope to gather articles, blogs, interesting projects on my own platform. I would appreciate any feedback, good or bad so that I can improve the site. Email: gazcrisa (at) gmail (dot) com

    2023 · gptroad.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    YCombinato – A domain-hacked "Hacker News" client▲34

    Hi HN, This is a little "HN Reader" experiment I made using a domain hack of "news.ycombinato.com" <- notice the "r" is missing. Basically, I thought it would be cool to make a "clone" of the "Hacker News" URL so you can quickly navigate to "YCombinato" from any post on "news.ycombinator" by just dropping the r in the domain. The benefit is a few extra features like; sorting, searching etc... Unfortunately I realized it's essentially a phishing attack :( according to the browser, which means there will probably be a warning message on most browsers... but it's still usable and hopefully…

    2023 · news.ycombinato.com · its alternatives →

12. 12HC
    HackerNewsers,com, find other hackers near you▲221

    There's been lots of discussion recently about finding other HNers to talk to / bounce ideas off / work with, some Google spreadsheets were set up to share details but they were soon vandalised. I had a spare afternoon yesterday (which turned into a long day) and here's the result: http://www.hackernewsers.com/ It's only open to people with HN accounts, it lets you post your biography, location, skills etc. Anyway, I hope you like it and find it useful.

    2010 · hackernewsers.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    What Is Hacker News Working On?▲229

    I tagged all comments from "What Are You Working On?" (like https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45561428) posts and built a simple SvelteKit website, hope it's helpful to find people with similar projects. I'm also thinking of adding some analysis of project types over time to see changes in tech

    Nov 2025 · waywo.eamag.me · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Hacker News, without AIfree▲207

    A better Hacker News reader for following stories, filtering noise, and keeping up with discussions.

    Sep 2026 · hcker.news · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Hacker News, Without AIfree▲197

    Source: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leiDnedyA&#x2F;hn-without-ai

    Sep 2026 · unslop.news · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Hacker News historic upvote and score data▲78

    Hi yall! I've been using hacker news for a while but one of the things I started wanting recently was the ability to have alerts for any stories I post. The thing that pushed me over the edge was Hackclub's shipwrecked https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shipwrecked.hackclub.com&#x2F; (hackathon in the boston bay for anyone that can make 4 projects over the summer and get at least one of them to go viral). One of the options for "going viral" was to get to the front page of hacker news but I was constantly scared that I would miss it getting on there lol so I whipped up a quick slackbot to send alerts to a…

    2025 · hn.dunkirk.sh · its alternatives →

17. 17HN
    Hacker News Outliers▲147

    I made a little website with a server that collects only HN submissions with > 500 upvotes chronologically. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.moritz.pm&#x2F; It's quite simple because I wanted to learn from the project. But I think it's useful, to get a summary of what was important over the last days. The UI is almost identical to the HN frontpage, you can click on the comments to view the thread and on the username to see the profile. The rest of the cards takes you to the submitted URL.

    2024 · hn.moritz.pm · its alternatives →

18. 18AL
    AI-Less Hacker News▲69

    Lately I've felt exhausted due to the deluge of AI&#x2F;GPT posts on hacker news, and have seen similar grumblings. I threw together this frontend that filters out anything with the phrases AI, LLM, GPT, or LLaMa for use until the hype dies down a bit. Before anyone asks, yes I did try to use ChatGPT to help, and while the code it provided was helpful, it needed some heavy bug-fixing. Edit: One other note I forgot to mention. The favicon is generated by Stable Diffusion, I asked it to generate an "Aritificial Intelligence Favicon", and then I added the red circle with line through it.

    2023 · save-buffer.github.io · its alternatives →

19. 19HN
    Hacker News for film buffs▲83

    I tried to replicate the minimal design of hacker news. A small pet project I wanted to do after getting frustrated with the politics and dumb down conversations the film communities have on X&#x2F;twitter, instagram and other social platforms have. I'll try to update the landing page with more links, feel free to check it out and judge.

    2024 · newyorkdailyinquirer.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    This Hacker News does not exist▲32

    Random Hacker News front page generated with AI

    2025 · thishackernewsdoesnotexist.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Hacker News bot that automated archive finding and commenting▲52

    Hi everyone, I build this bot to automate the process of going to wayback machine (or archive.ph) to find the archive link for posts with articles that have subscription blocks The idea was to have this run on a server and then I wouldn’t have this daily annoyance, the bot was banned, so its not currently active, but I still wanted to show it off and get some feedback Disclaimer : HN doesn't allow bots, so please don’t use this to run your own HN bot.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22IM
    I made a Hacker News for everyone.▲18

    2011 · whatsupedia.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Hackertuah: A Hacker News CLI Built in Rust▲7

    You may have seen this earlier with it's initial release: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42056334 Now new features: Instant search&#x2F;filter: Press &#x2F; or use the command palette to filter stories as you type Command Palette: Press Ctrl+K to access all commands, including search, section switching, and more Options menu for each story (summarize, open, close) Section switching: Top, Ask, Show, Jobs Easy install & run with Cargo Feedback, comments, feature requests welcome.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24IR
    I reverse engineered X to Read Threads without Any Account as Articles▲59

    Hi fellow hackers, I'm Ved, I came across the pain point of having a reader that could provide threads as articles after scrolling them many times and missing the context of the original info shared. To solve my itch I decided to build a thread reader without Ads(all existing sol. were full of them), since X&#x2F;Twitter API was very pricey, I did some reverse engineering to convert rendered X.com&#x2F;twitter pages to an API and host it in a VM (which obv. was dead cheap). All of your data is saved in LocalStorage. Including your comments and saved threads(there is a known issue with Linux…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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