Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Hacker News in real-time displays new stories from Hacker News as they arrive, updated continuously throughout the day. It's designed for people who want to follow technology discussions and news in a live stream… 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 in real-time launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1HH
   HNLive – Hacker News in Real Time▲51

   2016 · hnlive.cf · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Hacker News Simulator▲572

   2015 · news.ycombniator.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Hacker News Day▲91

   Best of Hacker News Daily

   2020 · hackernewsday.com · its alternatives →

4. 4HN
   Hacker News Trends▲137

   2020 · eliot-jones.com · its alternatives →

5. 5HN
   Hacker News implemented using the new API▲90

   2014 · realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →

6. 6TH
   This Hacker News Does Not Exist▲252

   2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →

7. 7HN
   Hacker News Instant (3 hour project)▲91

   2011 · hninstant.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Hacker News API▲317

   Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)

   2014 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts▲225

   The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.

   23d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →

10. 10HN
    Hacker News Comments▲189

    2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Hacker News Talk, a Chrome extension for real-time commentary▲48

    2013 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

12. 12HN
    Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize▲564

    2024 · yourhackernews.com · its alternatives →

13. 13MA
    Monitor a Hacker News post over time▲78

    2020 · hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com · its alternatives →

14. 14HN
    Hacker News with categories and popularity▲149

    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 →

15. 15
    HackerDaily – What if HN updates only once a day?▲90

    A more informative and less addictive Hacker News.

    2020 · hackerdaily.io · its alternatives →

16. 16HN
    Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait▲188

    Dec 2025 · dosaygo-studio.github.io · its alternatives →

17. 17TU
    The users behind Hacker News▲193

    2011 · hnwho.com · its alternatives →

18. 18SH
    Show Hacker News Weekly▲38

    2014 · daemonology.net · its alternatives →

19. 19HD
    Hacker Daily, a daily podcast for Hacker News readers▲199

    2018 · hackerdaily.co · its alternatives →

20. 20
    I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News▲151

    2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Hacker News Stack▲138

    Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.

    2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Visualize your Hacker News activity▲132

    Web site created using create-react-app

    2020 · showcase.metamate.io · its alternatives →

23. 23AD
    A different interface for reading Hacker News▲36

    2011 · moeffju.github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24RL
    Reading list of popular Hacker News users▲143

    2019 · collectoral.com · its alternatives →

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