Alternatives

Products that do what Hackbook – Follow HN users, get notifications and view deleted comments does

1. 1
   HNwatcher▲136

   Track keywords and users on Hacker News

   2014

2. 2HR
   HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments▲217

   2016 · hnreplies.com

3. 3HC
   Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions▲335

   2017 · hackerhunt.co

4. 4HN
   Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website▲209

   2011 · hn.gethifi.com

5. 5HT
   hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting▲109

   2016 · hnlive.tk

6. 6
   Slack-HN▲99

   Read Hacker News right from Slack

   2015

7. 7HD
   HN Deck – An alternative way to browse Hacker News▲115

   2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.com

8. 8AC
   A Chrome extension to see notifications for comments on your HN threads▲79

   2021 · chrome.google.com

9. 9HC
   HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification▲180

   2016 · hnchat.com

10. 10HR
    HN Reads – the books of hacker news▲33

    2015 · hnreads.com

11. 11
    HNSlack▲135

    Get the front page of Hacker News in your Slack, every day

    2015

12. 12HT
    HN Text Analytics – Check what’s trending on Hacker News▲16

    2018 · hn.textalytics.io

13. 13HT
    HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News▲106

    2020 · yahnd.com

14. 14HB
    Hackernews-Button – Bloom Filter-based, private HN browsing extension▲74

    2021 · github.com

15. 15HG
    hncynic – Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles▲114

    2019 · hncynic.leod.org

16. 16HH
    Hacked Hacker News - new comment highlighting and keyboard navigation▲48

    2013 · github.com

17. 17HM
    HN Mail – A topic-based newsletter service for Hacker News▲27

    2018 · hnmail.io

18. 18EH
    Embed HN comments in your website▲137

    2016 · comments.network

19. 19HR
    hackernews.roundtable.audio turns HN posts into live audio discussions▲109

    2021 · hackernews.roundtable.audio

20. 20HD
    HN Demetricator – An extension that removes upvote and comment counts▲92

    2020 · github.com

21. 21
    Hazumi News 3.0▲99

    Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News

    2025

22. 22
    HN Search (Experimental)▲112

    A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

    2015

23. 23
    HN Comments Owl▲77

    Highlight new Hacker News comments, and other UX tweaks

    2019

24. 24HN
    Hacker News Digest – A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations▲13

    2015 · hackernews.im

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