Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Chrome extension to show how fast HN stories bubble to the top
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Chrome extension to show how fast HN stories bubble to the top launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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TL;DR▲199I love Hacker News but I rarely have time to read full articles / comments, so I built a simple site to summarize the top posts & comments to make it easier to get a big picture. A few implementation details: - It pulls the top stories from the HN Firebase API (`/v0/topstories`) - Filters stories with >200 points - Uses Claude Sonnet for post + comment summaries - Tries to capture the sentiment of the comments (still working on improving this) - Refreshes both posts + summaries hourly It has already helped me I hope it helps you! Please let me know if you have any feedback --…
2025 · tl-dr.tv · its alternatives →
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2014 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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I have a dedicated HN tab that I come back to and reload multiple times a day to see whats new and hot. I wrote a Chrome Extension to: - quickly scan new articles since my last reload - quickly scan highly discussed articles - open actual articles and discussions in a new tab This links to the source code. The chrome extension is linked at the bottom of the github page. Note: - This extension only operates on the HN front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/news) - The first time you reload the HN front page after installing the extension all articles will get highlighted.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I spent a few weeks looking at the top HN posts of all time. This included exploration, clustering, creating visualizations, and zooming in on what (to me personally) seems like some of the best discussions on here. Three things in this post: 1- The interesting groups of HN posts 2- The interactive visualizations that you can explore in your browser 3- The data from this exploration -- this includes CSV of the titles as well as the text embeddings of 3,000 Ask HN articles. Blog post about this whole process here: [1] ============ 1- The interesting groups of HN posts From the…
2022 · its alternatives →
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http://www.hnshowcase.com Moses (nnythm) and I browse Hacker News daily. Show HN posts are some of our favorite parts of HN. We wanted to create a way to browse Show HN articles, even those that might not quite make it to the front page. We created http://www.hnshowcase.com last weekend to make discovering projects posted on HN easier. It searches all "Show HN" posts and generates a thumbnail view for each of them. You can sort by submission date, points, and number of comments, and navigate with left/right or j/k keys. We used the following technologies: HN Search API, Pyramid web…
2011 · hnshowcase.com · its alternatives →
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FeedsBar▲73A quiet, continuous news/media ticker for your Mac desktop
Aug 2026 · feeds.bar · its alternatives →
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A fast Show HN online viewer
2012 · showhackernews.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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I scraped every Show HN from the last 12 months (41,301 posts) plus the full comment tree of every launch with 10+ comments, ~100k comment timestamps, all from the Algolia HN API. The median launch gets 2 points and 0 comments. For launches that do get traction, half the comments they'll ever get arrive within 7.2 hours and 90% within 26, and the top decile decays on the same clock as everyone else. Vote timestamps aren't public, so comment timing is the attention proxy; caveats are in the post. Everything reproduces from the repo with one command…
Jul 2026 · jonno.nz · its alternatives →
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Chrome extension that allows you to filter HN stories using a comma separated list - ShamariFeaster/chrome-extension-hn-filter
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We have made this free extension to help you skim HN articles at the speed of light! Give it a try and tell us your experience!
2023 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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UserScript: Indicate New/Unread HN stories on front page since your last visit. - Hacker_News_Story_Rank_Change_Indicator.user.js
2024 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · pepperparrot.com · its alternatives →
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The HN frontpage can feature stories that aren't that relevant to me, and some good ones don't get enough traction on the new submissions page. So I thought of building something that personalizes the stories you see. This is done by getting the 500 newest and top stories and comparing them against your likes, building your own personalized homepage. Also, when I find something I like, I usually want to explore similar stuff. So I created embeddings for 500k historical stories (all above 20 points) and added a 'similar' button that shows you the closest stories. I thought of making this a…
2024 · hackernewsexplorer.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · hackernews.onesignal.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · builtbyhackers.io · its alternatives →
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2014 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Fifteen years of Show HN: the thirty-four repeat fliers and the top ten of every year. Volume 2 of 2.
Sep 2026 · artifactbin.dev · its alternatives →
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2011 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · hnstats.info · its alternatives →
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2012 · hntimeline.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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