Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hacker Reads, something I made for fun.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hacker Reads, something I made for fun. launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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My personal itch to scratch just recently has been the umpteen formatting foibles of HackerNews. So, in the spirit of making the web more personal again, I knocked up a TamperMonkey userscript to fix up the worst of my personal bugbears. This isn't an attempt at a complete rebrand/redesign of the site, instead it's just fixing up what I think are the biggest design/readability issues whilst trying to remain true to the site's existing aesthetic. Key features: * Base font size increased * A little more room around headings * Top menu bar is full-width and with a little more padding…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Katamari Hack▲100A "bookmarklet" that turns any page into Katamari Damacy
2015 · kathack.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 →
- 4IM
2021 · mostlycrypto.news · its alternatives →
- 5MH
2021 · hacker-news-dj.netlify.app · its alternatives →
- 6MF
2011 · frustimonials.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · firespotting.com · its alternatives →
- 8AP
2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →
- 9MW
Let me know if you have any suggestions!
2011 · mugshotwars.com · its alternatives →
- 10AH
2022 · hn-shorts.vercel.app · its alternatives →
- 11
2013 · mycelial.com · its alternatives →
- 12CP
2012 · getcommify.com · its alternatives →
- 13CF
2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
- 15BH
2017 · beta.mustak.im · its alternatives →
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This isn't your fancy new javascript gizmo, but funny guy with a funny story to promote his toddler app. I'm sure you'll agree. Humor me. 1st let me tell you how I came upon hacker news, and why I read it everyday.<p>I'm not a programmer, and only half-decent designer. I'm much more of a 'project manager' type of person. I wrote a blog post 2 years ago on how to do a fancy trick with css3 with box shadows. It was clever, and has been expanded and implemented all over the web. One day (while sitting in church) my phone kept buzzing every couple of seconds with comments on that blog…
2012 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 17IG
2022 · hookshot.ironwill.ai · its alternatives →
- 18HN
2017 · peers.science · its alternatives →
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The project is entirely open source. It takes a single Pandoc Markdown source file and produces HTML, EPUB, PDF, man pages, GNU Info, an audiobook, an HTML-integrated audio player that highlights the content as it plays, and an MP4 output for the "video audiobook." It's generic enough to be reusable. I plan to use the pipeline for my tech blog later on. The novella contains a lot of programming lore. It's an over-the-top love letter to the old-school Linux programmer and to the craft itself. Source code: https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/hacker-fables
Jul 2026 · sebastiancarlos.github.io · its alternatives →
- 20HN
2022 · supertechnews.com · its alternatives →
- 21M2
ok...even though im a bit sleepy, i would love to get a lot of feedback from people regarding my website...also what are the ways I can protect myself from hackers in this situation?
2011 · ilov3u.net · its alternatives →
- 22YA
2021 · yahni.news · its alternatives →
- 23HN
2015 · nielsole.github.io · its alternatives →
- 24HT
2021 · hntokindle.com · its alternatives →
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