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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Built and Released a Hacker News Clone in an Hour launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1MH
   My Hacker News clone (redesigned)▲9

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

2. 2BH
   Beautiful Hacker News client written under an hour▲8

   2017 · beta.mustak.im · its alternatives →

3. 3YA
   Yet Another Hacker News Interface▲8

   2021 · yahni.news · its alternatives →

4. 4IC
   I created a PHP Hacker News Clone in 2 hours▲18

   http://hackernews.zopte.com 0 lines of code written and the entire operation took 2 hours. Its not perfect. It doesn't have the threaded comment view and the ranking is naive. But, I thought its worth showing off.

   2010 · hackernews.zopte.com · its alternatives →

5. 5HN
   Hacker News TLDR▲7

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

6. 6HN
   Hacker News for Busy People▲5

   2022 · supertechnews.com · its alternatives →

7. 7AP
   a "personalized" Hacker News▲8

   2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   A snappy and resilient Hacker News clone in ~1k lines of rust▲27

   A fast, resilient, isomorphic hacker news clone in ~1k lines of rust. - ivanceras/hackernews-sauron

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9HN
   Hacker News 2.0 - A Work in Progress▲7

   2012 · hn2.co · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Hacker News For Ideas▲6

    2013 · firespotting.com · its alternatives →

11. 11HN
    Hacker News Threshold▲8

    2011 · userscripts.org · its alternatives →

12. 12HN
    Hacker News, by the numbers▲9

    2015 · arnauddri.github.io · its alternatives →

13. 13HN
    Hacker news for science▲9

    2017 · peers.science · its alternatives →

14. 14IM
    I made a Hacker News for crypto▲7

    2021 · mostlycrypto.news · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Prettier Hacker News Front End▲7

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

16. 16TM
    Time machine for HackerNews▲9

    2014 · tthn.wenbin.org · its alternatives →

17. 17
    The Hacker News Puzzle▲5

    Aug 2026 · pzlgames.com · its alternatives →

18. 18HN
    Hacker News Daily Newsletter▲6

    2015 · nielsole.github.io · its alternatives →

19. 19RH
    Responsive Hacker News written in Go, with source▲5

    2015 · gohacker.news · its alternatives →

20. 20TH
    The "Hacker News Status" Twitter account▲6

    2014 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

21. 21TT
    TopHN – Topmost story of Hacker News from the last 24 hours▲8

    2017 · tophn.org · its alternatives →

22. 22PN
    Pythonic News – A Hacker News Clone for the Python Community▲6

    2023 · news.python.sc · its alternatives →

23. 23AH
    A Hacker News reader with the UX of YouTube Shorts▲9

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

24. 24
    Read Later for Hacker News▲6

    2016 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

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