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24 alternatives to DarkHN – Hacker News with Dark Mode
Dark-mode version of Hacker News. This is mostly to be able to read Hacker News at night without hurting my eyes. Hackers have to sleep too! For all the features that you have to be signed-in for work, those links take you to the real HN site. Similarly, the pages not supported by the api (past, comments, submit, and from) take you to the real pages as well. Also, the "Light Hacker News" link in the top right corner takes you to whichever page you're currently on in the real website. The routes mirror those of the real website, so if you're ever on Hacker News and want to switch to this dark…
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. DarkHN – Hacker News with Dark Mode launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2021 · darkhn.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
- 2HN
2020 · jgthms.com · its alternatives →
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Browser extension that toggles an opinionated dark theme for the popular website, Hacker News. - azerella/ext-hn-darkmode
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 5HN
Just another HN reader that supports dark mode and an embeded reader view mode for links.
2023 · read-hn.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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(Unofficial) Login with HackerNews
2022 · loginwithhn.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! I’m Julien and I built a recommendation engine for Hacker News. I feel like this website is a gold mine. Every day, I find some very interesting stories about a topic. And sometimes, I want to find other stories covering that same topic but I can’t. Hacker News has years of history of awesome discussion and ressources. Unfortunately, I think HN Algolia isn’t helpful in searching these old threads. As a student, I want to learn a lot from this website. This is why I created HN Recommend. Input a sentence or the URL of an article, and get the most popular and similar posts from Hacker…
2023 · hn-recommend.julienc.me · 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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I love HN but always felt the search with algolia is okay but does have some limitations. Since I work at Vectara I decided to try and create a better search for HN. It's based on data from roughly the last 6 months of HN stories and comments. Would love to hear feedback and how useful this is relative to the existing search.
2024 · hackernews.demo.vectara.com · its alternatives →
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The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
25d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’ve been lurking for a while, but out of fear of being steamrolled by HN readers or maybe just natural introversion, I’ve always been too scared to post or comment. Which is why 1. this is my first real Hacker News submission 2. my friend Michael and I built "Fake" Hacker News, a place to post and see what AI-generated HN comments might say. Here’s a video of me using fakeHN to test this very submission: https://www.loom.com/share/4b9f4f9d7c77489a86baeb92ec55a1ed?... And an example of one of our generated posts:…
2023 · fakehn.com · its alternatives →
- 12WH
2015 · waybackhn.com · its alternatives →
- 13HD
Paste this in the developer tools console of your browser document.documentElement.style.filter = "invert()" document.documentElement.style.background = '#fff' Edit: you can also create a bookmark with the code below in the URL field javascript: (() => { document.documentElement.style.filter = "invert()";document.documentElement.style.background = '#fff' })(); Then just click on the bookmark for instant dark mode
2022 · its alternatives →
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Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Curated daily list of blog posts posted on Hacker News. Click to read HackerNews blogs newsletter, by Paul, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
2020 · hnblogs.substack.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · deephn.org · its alternatives →
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Hi folks this is a project I worked on with some of my students when I was running an online JS programming course. Although the online course is no more, I finally got around to releasing Hacker Herald with a former instructor and student - thanks Arnav and Archis! To those wondering if there is a need for such a Hacker News front end, I would just point out that most newspaper websites are laid out like this - clearly some people like this kind of layout! Also for some stories a picture really does help - currently there is a HN story titled, "Portland airport grows with expansive mass…
2024 · hackerherald.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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Hey HN. I created this website. https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/ It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this. I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R ). But I…
2025 · pj4533.com · its alternatives →
- 21HN
I made a little website with a server that collects only HN submissions with > 500 upvotes chronologically. https://hn.moritz.pm/ It's quite simple because I wanted to learn from the project. But I think it's useful, to get a summary of what was important over the last days. The UI is almost identical to the HN frontpage, you can click on the comments to view the thread and on the username to see the profile. The rest of the cards takes you to the submitted URL.
2024 · hn.moritz.pm · its alternatives →
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I built a newspaper-style Hacker News reader where you can read articles and comments in one view. Sites that block iframes (Substack, Medium, BBC) get a clean reader mode automatically. It's a PWA, has dark mode, and there's a weekly newsletter. Open source: https://github.com/terryds/hackernewstimes
Mar 2026 · hackernewstimes.com · its alternatives →
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HN Deck: An alternate way to browse Hacker News
2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · top10.pancik.com · its alternatives →
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