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24 alternatives to Better Hacker News
How hacker news should be
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. Better Hacker News launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2015 · news.ycombniator.com · its alternatives →
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A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Hacker News
2022 · modernhn.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →
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✨ Hacker News, but refined — Interface tweaks and features to make the HN experience better - plibither8/refined-hacker-news
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · hilapeleg.io · its alternatives →
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2011 · hnwho.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · yourhackernews.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · moeffju.github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I made this free browser extension that modernizes the Hacker News design. I previously launched Modern for Wikipedia [1] here back in December, and it seemed like the obvious next choice to build one for HN too! So I've taken what I learned from building that, and have spent all my spare time this year building Modern for HN. I realize this won't be for everyone, but it was a fun project to work on, and I'm really happy with the result so far. Hope you like it too! Lots more planned for future updates, and suggestions welcome :) [1]…
2022 · modernhn.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · podcastrank.co · 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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2012 · rewindhn.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →
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I forked pajecawav's better-hn repo, which turned out to be an excellent foundation to build on. While the original implementation was clean and functional, it didn't quite capture the essence of Hackernews. More importantly, it was missing some features I considered essential for a truly viable alternative. After tinkering with it for a while, I think I've nailed it—at least for my own use case. If it works well for me, chances are others might find it useful too. So I figured, why not share it? Pretty straightforward: no ads, no tracking, no monetization schemes and no intention to do so.…
2025 · hakkernieuws.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hacker News TV▲141A 24/7 TV station made up from the best HN videos
2019 · crowdform.studio · its alternatives →
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2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · eliot-jones.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · hackerstream.com · its alternatives →
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Did you want to know topics of the news or popularity of posts? "Hacker News Hack" helps you to find news based on some categories and importance or popularity. It tagged news with 9 categories with a natural language processing technology and supervised learning for categorizing news. It also calculates a speed of number of comments in each posts as popularity based on term, that is 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year.
2014 · newshack.io · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone! This is a browser extension that attempts to enhance Hacker News user experience, while your data is kept secure, and private (never leaves the browser). Browsers have evolved significantly since doing a v1 back in 2010, which was one of the contributing factors, for attempting a complete re-take few months ago. Personally, I was surprised how useful it turned out to be when browsing around HN. On the linked page you can find install link(s) from web-browser stores, and demo video/screenshots of the features[1] What do you think ? [1] including, browsing content with…
2023 · carina.app · its alternatives →
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2014 · realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →
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