Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hackbook – Follow HN users, get notifications and view deleted comments
Hackbook is a tool that lets users follow Hacker News community members and receive notifications about their activity. It also displays comments that have been deleted from Hacker News threads. The service is designed… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hackbook – Follow HN users, get notifications and view deleted comments launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1HR
2016 · hnreplies.com · its alternatives →
- 2WH
2015 · waybackhn.com · its alternatives →
- 3HN
2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
- 4TB
2016 · hackernewsbooks.com · its alternatives →
- 5MH
Hey HN! I just published https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city. How it works? Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 1. Fill the form: username, city+country 2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description. 3. Click "Add me on the map" Optionnaly (it's recommended!) you can add links to your socials as well as some tags to showcase your interests. Why does it exist? I created this because, despite its harsh reputation on the internet, I love the HN community. I…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext
2020 · github.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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(Unofficial) Login with HackerNews
2022 · loginwithhn.com · its alternatives →
- 9HF
2014 · hn-follow.desh.es · its alternatives →
- 10MB
2022 · handlr.sapico.me · its alternatives →
- 11HN
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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Hacker News comments sidebar bookmarklet. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · hn.luap.info · its alternatives →
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There's been lots of discussion recently about finding other HNers to talk to / bounce ideas off / work with, some Google spreadsheets were set up to share details but they were soon vandalised. I had a spare afternoon yesterday (which turned into a long day) and here's the result: http://www.hackernewsers.com/ It's only open to people with HN accounts, it lets you post your biography, location, skills etc. Anyway, I hope you like it and find it useful.
2010 · hackernewsers.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 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 →
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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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2016 · comments.network · its alternatives →
- 19HH
2013 · hackyapp.com · its alternatives →
- 20TU
2011 · hnwho.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 23ID
2013 · hackernewstab.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · ampie.app · its alternatives →
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- HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments alternatives
- Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News alternatives
- Hacker News Comments alternatives
- Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News alternatives
- Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city alternatives
- Find HN threads about the page you're browsing alternatives
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