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Ampie is a web tool that surfaces Hacker News and Twitter discussions about the current page a user is viewing. Designed for people browsing the web who want to see what others are saying about a site, it aggregates… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ampie – See HN or Twitter discussions mentioning the page you are on launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Accessible end-to-end deep dive of crawling, embedding, projecting, and semantic searching all of Hacker News for my Hackerverse project.

    2024 · blog.wilsonl.in · its alternatives →

  4. 4EH
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    A Hacker News lookalike written in Python/Django, powering https://news.python.sc - sebst/pythonic-news

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →

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    The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.

    25d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →

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    (Unofficial) Login with HackerNews

    2022 · loginwithhn.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12VT
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    Hacked this up really quickly for fun last night: http://yc.backtype.com Shows the hn front page w/ tweets from your friends. E.g.: http://yc.backtype.com/?x=davemcclure

    2011 · yc.backtype.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18SW

    2013 · hackernewstrends.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Newsit▲63

    Find the discussion around the page you're looking at!

    2018 · newsit.benwinding.com · its alternatives →

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    Hacker News comments sidebar bookmarklet. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Get a Slack message when you're mentioned on HN or Reddit

    2017 · littlebirdie.io · its alternatives →

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    A database of top ranking Hacker News front page posts

    2020 · harishgarg.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23HN

    2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →

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    I built this tool to help me find interesting discussions on Hacker News. I love reading HN discussions almost more than the articles themselves. However, I found that full text search, although highly performant, is not always good at surfacing interesting discussions on a certain topic -- especially if you don't know what to search for exactly. I built this by scraping the most recent ~6 million posts (that's about 2 years of history) and putting the resulting posts and their vector embeddings into Postgres. Let me know what could be improved, and if you'd like a more detailed writeup of…

    2024 · searchhacker.news · its alternatives →

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