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24 alternatives to Hacker News Instant (3 hour project)
Hacker News Instant provides instant search and browsing of Hacker News content. The tool is designed for readers who want to quickly find and access discussions from the popular news aggregation platform. It offers… 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 Instant (3 hour project) launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1HN
2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →
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2015 · news.ycombniator.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News API▲317Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)
2014 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
- 4HN
2014 · realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →
- 5AE
2014 · xinglab.com · its alternatives →
- 6HN
2011 · hackerstream.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (https://hackersearch.net), a semantic search engine for Hacker News. Type a keyword or a description of what you're interested in, and you'll get top links from HN surfaced to you along with brief summaries. Unlike HN's otherwise very valuable search feature, Hacker Search doesn't require you to get your keywords exactly right. That's achieved by leveraging OpenAI's latest embedding models alongside more traditional indexes extracted from the scraped and cleaned up contents of the links. I think there are many more interesting things…
2024 · hackersearch.net · its alternatives →
- 8HN
2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
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Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
- 10TH
2013 · hn-button.com · its alternatives →
- 11IM
2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →
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Fastest and easiest way to browse Hacker News.
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · 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 →
- 14CO
2018 · code.hn · its alternatives →
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2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →
- 16FT
2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Web site created using create-react-app
2020 · showcase.metamate.io · its alternatives →
- 19HN
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 →
- 20HN
2020 · eliot-jones.com · its alternatives →
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The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
25d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →
- 22VT
Hi HN. I was surprised that there wasn't a feature here that lets you go back in time to the front page of Hacker News on a random day...so I made one. http://randomhackernews.com is a simple HTML page that navigates you to the front page of HN on a random day between today and February 19, 2007 (the oldest date I could find with content). I made this for myself, but figured others may find some interest in it.
2024 · randomhackernews.com · its alternatives →
- 23TH
2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →
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I love HN but always felt the search with algolia is okay but does have some limitations. Since I work at Vectara I decided to try and create a better search for HN. It's based on data from roughly the last 6 months of HN stories and comments. Would love to hear feedback and how useful this is relative to the existing search.
2024 · hackernews.demo.vectara.com · its alternatives →
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