Growth · alternatives · 2026

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 Daily Newsletter launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1WN
   Weekly newsletter of top Hacker News posts curated by the community▲5

   2021 · efficientdemocracy.com · its alternatives →

2. 2HN
   Hacker News for Busy People▲5

   2022 · supertechnews.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Hacker News For Ideas▲6

   2013 · firespotting.com · its alternatives →

4. 4HN
   Hacker News TLDR▲7

   2014 · hn-tldr.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

5. 5YA
   Yet Another Hacker News Interface▲8

   2021 · yahni.news · its alternatives →

6. 6AP
   a "personalized" Hacker News▲8

   2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Slack-HN▲99

   Read Hacker News right from Slack

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8HN
   Hacker News, by the numbers▲9

   2015 · arnauddri.github.io · its alternatives →

9. 9HN
   Hacker news for science▲9

   2017 · peers.science · its alternatives →

10. 10TH
    Top Hacker News stories every day over the years▲6

    2024 · top-hn-stories.adhikasp.my.id · its alternatives →

11. 11SH
    See Hacker News submissions while you browse▲6

    2020 · epiverse.co · its alternatives →

12. 12HN
    Hacker News 2.0 - A Work in Progress▲7

    2012 · hn2.co · its alternatives →

13. 13HR
    HN4D: Recent Hacker News Front Page Activity▲7

    2012 · hn4d.com · its alternatives →

14. 14IN
    I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News▲14

    I noticed I was getting side tracked reading Hacker News, checking back, reading articles, comments, etc. It felt like my productivity was being hampered so I created a simple web app to receive the most popular stories in a daily email. http://dailyhn.com

    2011 · dailyhn.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Prettier Hacker News Front End▲7

    2020 · hackernews-kappa.vercel.app · its alternatives →

16. 16HN
    Hacker News for Preppers▲7

    2015 · preppernews.org · its alternatives →

17. 17TH
    The "Hacker News Status" Twitter account▲6

    2014 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

18. 18RH
    Responsive Hacker News written in Go, with source▲5

    2015 · gohacker.news · its alternatives →

19. 19HN
    Hacker News Threshold▲8

    2011 · userscripts.org · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Read Later for Hacker News▲6

    2016 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Desktop Notifications (webkit) for Hacker News▲5

    2015 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

22. 22TT
    TopHN – Topmost story of Hacker News from the last 24 hours▲8

    2017 · tophn.org · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Hacker News Articles Subscription and Notification Chrome Plugin▲9

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    hacker▲7

    Hacker News in the Command Line.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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