Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hacker News or Satire?
Test your ability to distinguish between fake and real news
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 or Satire? launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Real Fake▲192Guess which startups are real vs. AI generated
2024 · realfakegame.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm sharing a project I developed. It's a Tinder-like game where you swipe left or right to guess if a post is from Hacker News or a satire website.
2024 · hackernewssatire.com · its alternatives →
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A game where you try and guess which news piece is real
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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- 5TH
2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →
- 6FH
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 →
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Can you spot fake news in 5 headlines?
Feb 2026 · paperplanes.me · its alternatives →
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Can you tell real news headlines from satire?
2025 · satire-or-real.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Community effort to find out what is fake and what is real
2022 · fakeorreal.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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2015 · news.ycombniator.com · its alternatives →
- 11WT
2022 · wtf.notmydayjob.fyi · its alternatives →
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Can you tell the difference between real and fake news?
2017 · its alternatives →
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Test your HN title against a neural network. Contribute to victorqribeiro/hntitlenator development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I hacked together this fun project that lets you play any article on the front page of Hacker News as an interactive text game. You can create a game about anything by going to infinityarcade.com/ You can also use a URL, which is what this page uses. The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/themaximal1st/InfinityArcade
2023 · infinityarcade.com · its alternatives →
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Guess which products are real and which are jokes
2015 · realorfake.ph · its alternatives →
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- 17HN
Dec 2025 · dosaygo-studio.github.io · its alternatives →
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The trivia board game of fake news, fibs and false memories!
2019 · its alternatives →
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2020 · hacker-ai.com · its alternatives →
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Are you up to date on current affairs?
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Facts, not fear
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Random Hacker News front page generated with AI
2025 · thishackernewsdoesnotexist.com · its alternatives →
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