Life & fun · 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 Polls, an aggregator for polls on Hacker News launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   HNwatcher▲136

   Track keywords and users on Hacker News

   2014 · its alternatives →

2. 2HN
   Hacker News Outliers▲147

   I made a little website with a server that collects only HN submissions with > 500 upvotes chronologically. https://hn.moritz.pm/ It's quite simple because I wanted to learn from the project. But I think it's useful, to get a summary of what was important over the last days. The UI is almost identical to the HN frontpage, you can click on the comments to view the thread and on the username to see the profile. The rest of the cards takes you to the submitted URL.

   2024 · hn.moritz.pm · its alternatives →

3. 3HN
   Hacker News, by the numbers▲9

   2015 · arnauddri.github.io · its alternatives →

4. 4HN
   Hacker News Ranked by Comment/Score Ratio▲54

   2017 · paradite.github.io · its alternatives →

5. 5HN
   Hacker News 2.0 - A Work in Progress▲7

   2012 · hn2.co · its alternatives →

6. 6HS
   Hacker Search – real time search for Hacker News▲32

   2017 · hacker-search.net · its alternatives →

7. 7AH
   A Hacker News for Marketers▲5

   2012 · inbound.org · its alternatives →

8. 8YA
   Yet Another Hacker News Interface▲8

   2021 · yahni.news · its alternatives →

9. 9HR
   HN4D: Recent Hacker News Front Page Activity▲7

   2012 · hn4d.com · its alternatives →

10. 10HN
    Hacker News Threshold▲8

    2011 · userscripts.org · its alternatives →

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

    2020 · epiverse.co · its alternatives →

12. 12HN
    Hacker News comments for your blog▲7

    2020 · hndisq.xyz · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Hacker News Rankings to catch up on the trending stories you missed▲7

    2018 · hakaran.com · its alternatives →

14. 14AS
    A Smart Client-Side JavaScript Hacker News Button▲8

    2015 · blog.giantswarm.io · its alternatives →

15. 15HN
    Hacker News for Busy People▲5

    2022 · supertechnews.com · its alternatives →

16. 16HA
    HackerMint, a mobile-friendly infinite-scrolling view of Hacker News▲6

    2015 · hackermint.com · its alternatives →

17. 17PN
    Pythonic News – A Hacker News Clone for the Python Community▲6

    2023 · news.python.sc · its alternatives →

18. 18HN
    Hacker News TLDR▲7

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

19. 19VB
    Visual browsing of Hacker News and Pinboard popular links▲6

    2012 · poppin.bencohen.net · its alternatives →

20. 20HN
    Hacker news for science▲9

    2017 · peers.science · its alternatives →

21. 21HN
    Hacker News Dashboard (hckrnews.com data + kibana3 + qbox.io + appfog)▲9

    2013 · hnk.aws.af.cm · its alternatives →

22. 22RH
    Responsive Hacker News written in Go, with source▲5

    2015 · gohacker.news · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Hacker News For Ideas▲6

    2013 · firespotting.com · its alternatives →

24. 24TH
    The "Hacker News Status" Twitter account▲6

    2014 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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