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24 alternatives to Hacker News API
Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)
The Hacker News API provides programmatic access to Hacker News data through a read-only interface powered by Firebase. Developed for software developers who previously relied on web scraping, the API delivers near… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hacker News API launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2014 · realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →
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This is probably the first Hacker News client on AppStore that uses the newly introduced official Firebase HN API. One of the cool features of the new API are updates pushed in real time. There’s...
2014 · hnclient.weebly.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · hninstant.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →
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2018 · code.hn · its alternatives →
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I've been working on and off on a Chrome Extension for Hacker News, the extension focusses on improved usability rather than design. I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back to regular Hacker News. Give it a try, features include: - Improved readability - Quick inline replies from comments page - Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames - Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user - Endless scrolling - Collapsible comment threads - Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer Forks, improvements and comments…
2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →
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2011 · hnwho.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · hackerstream.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →
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Did you want to know topics of the news or popularity of posts? "Hacker News Hack" helps you to find news based on some categories and importance or popularity. It tagged news with 9 categories with a natural language processing technology and supervised learning for categorizing news. It also calculates a speed of number of comments in each posts as popularity based on term, that is 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year.
2014 · newshack.io · its alternatives →
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HackerNews reader powered by Algolia's API
2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Analyzing hacker news in real-time with Bytewax and Proton - bytewax/hacking-hacker-news
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News Delivered to Desktop :dancers:. Contribute to owenthereal/hacker-menu development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote this small client to read hackernews from my favorite editor. It's currently using an external HTTP API [0] but I'm working on my own proxy [1]. I'd love to actually scrape and cache all the info I need using lisp. However, my time constraints are keeping me away of that goal. I could definitely use some help here! :) I'm also planning to add support for comments and posting new things. Any feedback is highly appreciated! Thank you! [0] http://api.ihackernews.com/ [1] https://github.com/clarete/rhn
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · eliot-jones.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · hack.ernews.info · its alternatives →
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A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News. Contribute to aome510/hackernews-TUI development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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