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An Ambitious Hacker News Reader is a web application built with Ember.js that lets users browse and read Hacker News content. Launched in 2015, it provides an alternative interface for accessing Hacker News stories and… 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 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. An embitious Hacker News reader built with Ember.js launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    2015 · news.ycombniator.com · its alternatives →

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    I read HN on my phone every day and never really settled on a reader, so I wrote my own and finally tidied it up enough to put out there. It's plain SwiftUI with no third-party dependencies. A few things I spent the most time on: Comments are parsed and drawn as native text instead of being dumped into a web view. Links, italics, quotes and code blocks behave like the rest of the OS, text selection works, and threads collapse instantly. The whole comment tree comes back from the Algolia API in a single request, which felt a lot nicer than walking the Firebase API node by node. Accessibility.…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →

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    Hi folks this is a project I worked on with some of my students when I was running an online JS programming course. Although the online course is no more, I finally got around to releasing Hacker Herald with a former instructor and student - thanks Arnav and Archis! To those wondering if there is a need for such a Hacker News front end, I would just point out that most newspaper websites are laid out like this - clearly some people like this kind of layout! Also for some stories a picture really does help - currently there is a HN story titled, "Portland airport grows with expansive mass…

    2024 · hackerherald.com · its alternatives →

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    2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I'm excited to share a tool I've been working on - a native Hacker News reader built with Rust and egui. Here's a screenshot: https://github.com/haojiang99/hacker_news_reader/blob/main/s.... As a daily HN reader, I've always struggled with keeping track of interesting posts I want to read later. Browser tabs pile up, bookmarks get forgotten, and I lose track of what I've already read. I needed a way to: 1. Browse HN efficiently (across all sections - hot, new, show, ask, jobs, best) 2. Quickly mark posts as "todo" for later reading 3. Mark posts as…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Hacker News Reader in Vanilla JavaScript. Contribute to k2052/vanilla-hn development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Modern iOS app for reading Hacker News

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    2013 · hn-button.com · its alternatives →

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    HackerWeb▲189

    A simply readable Hacker News app

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    The best ideas are both simple and outlandish.

    2012 · normansoven.com · its alternatives →

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

    Sep 2026 · hcker.news · its alternatives →

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    Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)

    2014 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →

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    2020 · jgthms.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi folks, I've built an alternative Hacker News front page. It is inspired by and meant to be a replacement for hckrnews.com. I built this because HN is woefully underfeatured, but most sites that try to improve it seem to assume that the visual design is the problem. hcker.news tries to maintain HN's familiarity while adding useful enhancements. There are three primary views: - Timeline View: Browse top stories by votes or comments grouped by day, week, or month (e.g., top 20 per day, top 100 per week). - Aggregate View: See top stories by votes or comments over custom time ranges. - Front…

    2025 · hcker.news · its alternatives →

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    Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.

    2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    I wrote this small client to read hackernews from my favorite editor. It's currently using an external HTTP API [0] but I'm working on my own proxy [1]. I'd love to actually scrape and cache all the info I need using lisp. However, my time constraints are keeping me away of that goal. I could definitely use some help here! :) I'm also planning to add support for comments and posting new things. Any feedback is highly appreciated! Thank you! [0] http://api.ihackernews.com/ [1] https://github.com/clarete/rhn

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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