Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Beautiful Hacker News client written under an hour launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Prettier Hacker News Front End▲7

   2020 · hackernews-kappa.vercel.app · its alternatives →

2. 2YA
   Yet Another Hacker News Interface▲8

   2021 · yahni.news · its alternatives →

3. 3YA
   Yet Another HackerNews client▲5

   2017 · hn10.org · its alternatives →

4. 4BA
   Built and Released a Hacker News Clone in an Hour▲7

   2019 · pubsub.pubnub.com · its alternatives →

5. 5AP
   a "personalized" Hacker News▲8

   2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

6. 6TM
   Time machine for HackerNews▲9

   2014 · tthn.wenbin.org · its alternatives →

7. 7AS
   A Smart Client-Side JavaScript Hacker News Button▲8

   2015 · blog.giantswarm.io · its alternatives →

8. 8HN
   Hacker News for Busy People▲5

   2022 · supertechnews.com · its alternatives →

9. 9MH
   My Hacker News clone (redesigned)▲9

   2021 · hacker-news-dj.netlify.app · its alternatives →

10. 10HN
    Hacker News Threshold▲8

    2011 · userscripts.org · its alternatives →

11. 11HN
    Hacker News 2.0 - A Work in Progress▲7

    2012 · hn2.co · its alternatives →

12. 12
    "tl;dr" Chrome extension for Hacker News▲9

    2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

13. 13RH
    Responsive Hacker News written in Go, with source▲5

    2015 · gohacker.news · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Hacker News For Ideas▲6

    2013 · firespotting.com · its alternatives →

15. 15HR
    HN4D: Recent Hacker News Front Page Activity▲7

    2012 · hn4d.com · its alternatives →

16. 16AH
    A Hacker News reader with the UX of YouTube Shorts▲9

    2022 · hn-shorts.vercel.app · its alternatives →

17. 17
    florian▲3

    A desktop client for Hacker News

    2016 · florian.github.io · its alternatives →

18. 18TH
    The "Hacker News Status" Twitter account▲6

    2014 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Desktop Notifications (webkit) for Hacker News▲5

    2015 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

20. 20HN
    Hacker News Daily Newsletter▲6

    2015 · nielsole.github.io · its alternatives →

21. 21HN
    Hacker news for science▲9

    2017 · peers.science · its alternatives →

22. 22RA
    ReadHN, A Hacker News reader with some nice little functionalities:)▲5

    A Hacker News client with a clean, mobile friendly UI. Features : - bookmark stories. follow discussions / read them later at your convenience. - quickly search for articles using keywords. No more scrolling through the website. - easily managable nested comments. I love the current Hacker News experience and I don't believe my client is in any way a substitute to the original website. Built it over a few days for fun and found myself coming back to it once in a while for some of the features. Wanted to share this with the community. Let me know what you folks think :)

    2022 · read-hn.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

23. 23HN
    Hacker News comments for your blog▲7

    2020 · hndisq.xyz · its alternatives →

24. 24HN
    Hacker News TLDR▲7

    2014 · hn-tldr.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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