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24 alternatives to Hacker Times – HN Reader
This has been a play project for a little while, trying to build an interface that's comfortable to read on any device. It's a bit of a mashup of a Pocket-like interface, digital newspaper and Hacker News.
Hacker Times is a Hacker News reader that combines elements of Pocket, digital newspapers, and HN into a single interface designed for comfortable reading across devices. It targets people who want to consume Hacker… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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2011 · hn.gethifi.com · its alternatives →
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Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi folks this is a project I worked on with some of my students when I was running an online JS programming course. Although the online course is no more, I finally got around to releasing Hacker Herald with a former instructor and student - thanks Arnav and Archis! To those wondering if there is a need for such a Hacker News front end, I would just point out that most newspaper websites are laid out like this - clearly some people like this kind of layout! Also for some stories a picture really does help - currently there is a HN story titled, "Portland airport grows with expansive mass…
2024 · hackerherald.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · hnreads.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · waybackhn.com · its alternatives →
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The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
26d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →
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I built a newspaper-style Hacker News reader where you can read articles and comments in one view. Sites that block iframes (Substack, Medium, BBC) get a clean reader mode automatically. It's a PWA, has dark mode, and there's a weekly newsletter. Open source: https://github.com/terryds/hackernewstimes
Mar 2026 · hackernewstimes.com · its alternatives →
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HN Deck: An alternate way to browse Hacker News
2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.com · its alternatives →
- 10YP
2013 · skimhn.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · hackernewstab.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 →
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2016 · florian.github.io · its alternatives →
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2011 · moeffju.github.com · its alternatives →
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HackerNews reader powered by Algolia's API
2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A more informative and less addictive Hacker News.
2020 · hackerdaily.io · its alternatives →
- 21HR
2021 · hackernews.roundtable.audio · its alternatives →
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Just another HN reader that supports dark mode and an embeded reader view mode for links.
2023 · read-hn.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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2015 · 2ton.com.au · its alternatives →
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