Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait
This is a parody of Hacker News where every headline has been rewritten as hysterical clickbait. It takes the tech community's news aggregator and applies sensationalized, exaggerated language to each story. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
- 1TH
2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →
- 2HN
i'd forgotten i'd written this a year and a half ago, and when a friend passed me the link to it just now, it seemed hilarious to me. probably some other people will enjoy it too
2023 · canonical.org · its alternatives →
- 3HN
2024 · yourhackernews.com · its alternatives →
- 4HN
2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →
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Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
2020 · wolfgangfaust.com · its alternatives →
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Random Hacker News front page generated with AI
2025 · thishackernewsdoesnotexist.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · news.ycombniator.com · 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 →
- 9HN
2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
- 10FH
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 →
- 11IM
2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →
- 12HN
2014 · hilapeleg.io · its alternatives →
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Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
- 14FT
2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · 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 →
- 16TP
2019 · hackernewspapers.com · its alternatives →
- 17HN
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 →
- 18HN
2020 · eliot-jones.com · its alternatives →
- 19HN
2011 · hackerstream.com · its alternatives →
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HackerNews 4chan-style
2021 · hnchan.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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A protip by sergiotapia about css, html, and hackernews.
2012 · coderwall.com · its alternatives →
- 22HN
Hacker News Without News: A curated newsletter of interesting things.
2023 · hn.build-your-own.org · its alternatives →
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Hi folks, I've built an alternative Hacker News front page. It is inspired by and meant to be a replacement for hckrnews.com. I built this because HN is woefully underfeatured, but most sites that try to improve it seem to assume that the visual design is the problem. hcker.news tries to maintain HN's familiarity while adding useful enhancements. There are three primary views: - Timeline View: Browse top stories by votes or comments grouped by day, week, or month (e.g., top 20 per day, top 100 per week). - Aggregate View: See top stories by votes or comments over custom time ranges. - Front…
2025 · hcker.news · its alternatives →
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A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Hacker News
2022 · modernhn.com · its alternatives →
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