Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to CBC Lite, a low-bandwidth CBC news site, built with Nextjs
Hello! I’m Cole, a developer at CBC, the Canadian public broadcaster, and we’re proud to share CBC.ca/lite, a low bandwidth-focused news service. Try CBC.ca/lite/news/world for more globally relevant news. I’ve written a short post on r/reactjs with some details on the site’s features and how it's built for those interested. https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/wxdu5y/cbc_lite_a_... Thank you!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. CBC Lite, a low-bandwidth CBC news site, built with Nextjs launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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An honest to god, non-algorithmic reverse chrono list of tech news that passes my signal-to-noise tests, updated hourly. A lightweight a page design as I've been able to keep; simple, clean, fast. No commercial features or aspirations - this is a passion project, something I've been fooling around with on and off for decades. There's a "Top" view too with an LLM edited front page & summary, and categorized views for a large number of topics - see the Directory. A few more buried features to explore, but the fundamental use case is pop in, scan, exit - fast and concise. Your feedback would be…
2025 · deadstack.net · its alternatives →
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RedwoodJS▲203Hey everyone, I'm the original co-creator of RedwoodJS. (The framework that myself and Tom Preston-Werner, Rob Cameron and David Price built during Covid.) I had tried to build a developer tool startup (Snaplet), and failed. I rejoined the efforts to add RSC to Redwood, but I realized that we needed a much simpler framework that was closely tied to a platform (We chose Cloudflare). We started building RedwoodSDK a year ago and this is the result. An insanely simple stack. I am incredibly proud of this work, please star our repo and let me know if there's anything that doesn't resonate with…
2022 · rwsdk.com · its alternatives →
- 3TN
2019 · txtn.ws · its alternatives →
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Sometimes UI can be distracting and I’ve found that I’m most focused when able to focus completely on the content on a page. I built HN Lite as a chrome extension to hide all information that isn’t vital to see. It removes excess navigation, usernames, saving/reporting features, upvotes, voting tools, account access, and styling. Essentially it’s a lurker’s tool. Almost entirely built around content consumption and exploration. Although it desperately needs dark mode.
2022 · hackernewslite.com · its alternatives →
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I made a Hacker News reader for iOS with React Native and Redux. It was mostly for me to learn more about React Native, but I'm really happy with the result. Let me know what you think! I'm hoping to add a lot more features, the first being a settings page with some color settings and dark mode. App: https://appsto.re/us/czg7hb.i Code: https://github.com/seanyesmunt/hackernews
2017 · its alternatives →
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A Hacker News client built with Angular CLI, RxJS and Webpack
2016 · angular2-hn.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I wanted to share a UI toolkit project I’ve been working on recently, born out of how difficult I found it to build a great UX on top of LLMs, and keep application state in sync. I’ve built: - A React/JS front-end library for conversational interfaces, which makes it super easy to bootstrap AI assistants and ChatGPT style UX: https://github.com/nlkitai/nlux - A set of adapters that simplify integration with AI backends such as LangServe and HuggingFace The library is highly configurable, easy to theme, supports markdown streaming (that was tough to get…
2024 · 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 →
- 9TL
I built this app because I really enjoyed "Pulse" but I felt it lacked a few things. I wanted a web-based version, I wanted my news articles grouped together by topic, and I wanted an easy way to share with other people. It is early in the site's life, so somethings are missing, including the critical mobile app. If you have any feedback to give, it would be appreciated!
2011 · thread.ly · its alternatives →
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A blog and Portfolio CMS built with Rails, React, Redux, Material-UI, CSS Modules. - tsurupin/portfolio
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News Clone. https://forum.krehwell.com/. Contribute to krehwell/HeckarNews development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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minimal hacker news client built with Next.js and TailwindCSS - rocktimsaikia/hackernews-redesign
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Hacker News client made with React Native and Redux. Consumes HN's public API located at Firebase. - abhishekbhardwaj/Yet-Another-Hacker-News-Client
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 14IB
Hi HN! I built a proof of concept 'newspaper' that creates short news articles of today's current events with GPT. This is a very rough proof of concept but I can't help but think this concept is the future. I think we'll all have AI daily newspapers in whatever theme we want, covering any amount of information we want, with the ability to expand or contract article length instantly. Sharing just to get everyone thinking about this future. Thanks for reading!
2023 · thegordonpost.com · its alternatives →
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Howdy friends! Tell me if this is an atrociously terrible idea - I've been working on building a leetcode for clientside devs so we can practice React and Javascript interview questions in a more concise way, I call it clientside.dev I just finished a beta version of it yesterday and plan on releasing it with many more problems on Jan 1st but it's there if you wanna play with it open to any ideas / feedback however mean or nice it may be :)
2022 · vacation-call-335691.framer.app · its alternatives →
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An NX Hacker News clone with real-time updates and animations. - nx-js/hackernews-example
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · chr15m.github.io · its alternatives →
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- 20RO
A few weekends ago I was bored looking for a small project. I decided to make a small chat app that supports SSL and can be deployed easily. Front-end: ReactJS, Redux, Websockets Back End: Node.JS, Redis, Websockets Here is the source: http://www.github.com/lgse/react-chat Here is a demo: http://chat.lgse.net username: pick whatever you like! server: chat.lgse.net:1337 encryption: SSL/TLS There are still a lot of todos, but very functional for a small weekend project. Comments welcomed!
2016 · its alternatives →
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Former investigative reporter turned developer. I built a simple breaking-news monitor because tracking events across platforms is a mess now that Twitter’s unreliable. Bluesky is the backbone (a fraction of twitter, but still lots of journalists and OSINT folks), plus RSS, Telegram, Reddit, YouTube and Mastodon. Everything is one chronological feed with no algorithm, clear source labels, and lightweight activity detection when a region spikes above baseline (frequency math, not LLMs). But we do have a (hopefully non-obtrusive) AI-generated recent/post summary. Been building for a…
Feb 2026 · news-alert-eta.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Mine is just a little nodejs app with DynamoDB backend. As it turns out, Caltrain was already negotiating contracts with a company called SimplifyTransit to do the same thing. https://twitter.com/caltrainalerts/status/156787824427128013... Happy to shake things up and provide Caltrain riders with options!
2022 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
- 23IH
Hello HN, I had some christmas free time over the last two weeks (Merry Christmas btw ;-)) and used that time to completely recreate the website of my app[1]. I used all the fancy new tools. I didn't know some of them when I started. What was my goal? * Pretty website * Blazing fast * Mobile first * SSR * Webp support * Generally all the best website practices (high lighthouse score) What did I use? * Tailwindcss (https://tailwindcss.com/) * Tailwind Components (https://tailwindui.com/) * React (https://reactjs.org/) * ViteJs…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hello, I have worked on this side project for some months to visualize what's happening in the world on a daily basis. Would love to hear what you think of it !
2024 · w0rld2day.com · its alternatives →
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