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Products that do what Alerts Bar does

Darknet monitoring for infected computers and stolen data

1. 1IG
   I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire▲1,013

   2014 · glasswire.com

2. 2HT
   hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions▲160

   2021 · github.com

3. 3
   WebARX▲147

   Protect websites from plugin vulnerabilities

   2019

4. 4
   Monitor v2 [Retired]▲129

   Alert your entire team when your site goes offline.

   2015

5. 5HN
   Hacker News Dark Mode▲119

   2020 · jgthms.com

6. 6DD
   DarkHN – Dark Mode Mirror for Hacker News▲110

   2021 · darkhn.herokuapp.com

7. 7
   Wiza Monitor▲217

   Track job changes and get Slack + email alerts

   2025

8. 8
   GlassWire▲112

   Extra security & privacy via network monitoring

   2014

9. 9
   DarkThreatX Dark Web Monitoring Platform▲3

   Dark web & breach intelligence for people and organizations.

   Jul 2026 · darkthreatx.com

10. 10HO
    Hackerhub.org▲101

    2011 · hackerhub.org

11. 11FT
    Filter the web by Hacker News▲146

    2016 · hackernewsfilter.com

12. 12HN
    Hacker News CLI, written in Go▲98

    2014 · github.com

13. 13SH
    Self-hosted, open-source infrastructure monitoring and alerting▲82

    2014 · cabotapp.com

14. 14
    NotifyBreach▲10

    Threat Intelligence & Data Breach Monitoring Platform.

    Oct 2025

15. 15DN
    Darker News for Safari (Dark Mode for Hacker News)▲11

    2021 · apps.apple.com

16. 16PF
    Posts from Hacker News tagged "Show HN"▲35

    My first python app, it displays posts from hacker news that is tagged under "Show HN"...

    2013 · showhnapp.herokuapp.com

17. 17SL
    Simple Log Alerts to Slack▲26

    There are many log alerting systems on the market. The best known is probably Datadog. There’s also Logtail, Papertrail, Splunk, Logstash and others. These are well put together products with a host of great features, such as excellent UIs, sophisticated live searching via web interfaces and sometimes query languages and alerting. They require various levels of installation and they have costs, either through volume-based tiered systems or monthly payments. For a bootstrapped business, this can be problematic, for instance when a surge of logs - indicating a possible important problem that…

    2023 · profitview.net

18. 18HC
    Hackertalk – CLI tool that finds Hacker News discussion for any URL▲24

    2014 · github.com

19. 19HF
    Hackernews for Mac▲35

    2013 · whimsyapps.com

20. 20HN
    Hacker News without leaving your terminal▲25

    I put this together since I find myself switching away from the terminal to see if anything new popped up in HN. There might be similar ones out there, didn't bother looking. It was a quick experiment, which might end up with a few more features.

    2011 · github.com

21. 21HT
    HN Text Analytics – Check what’s trending on Hacker News▲16

    2018 · hn.textalytics.io

22. 22DU
    Daily-updated database of malicious browser extensions▲17

    Hey HN, I built an automated system that tracks malicious Chrome/Edge extensions daily. The database updates automatically by monitoring chrome-stats for removed extensions and scanning security blogs. Currently tracking 1000+ known malicious extensions with extension IDs, names, and dates. I'm working on detection tools (GUI + CLI) to scan locally installed extensions against this database, but wanted to share the raw data first since maintained threat intelligence lists like this are hard to find. The automation runs 24/7 and pushes updates to GitHub. Free to use for research,…

    Feb 2026 · github.com

23. 23DH
    DarkHN – Hacker News with Dark Mode▲7

    2023 · darkhn.com

24. 24
    The Witness▲8

    When a page updates, you understand why.

    Feb 2026

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