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24 alternatives to Hackerer.news

Discover the most insightful stories on Hacker News.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hackerer.news launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.

    29d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    A less addictive Hacker News

    2020 · hackerdaily.io · 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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    HackerWeb▲189

    A simply readable Hacker News app

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    HNwatcher▲136

    Track keywords and users on Hacker News

    2014 · its alternatives →

  6. 6HC

    There's been lots of discussion recently about finding other HNers to talk to / bounce ideas off / work with, some Google spreadsheets were set up to share details but they were soon vandalised. I had a spare afternoon yesterday (which turned into a long day) and here's the result: http://www.hackernewsers.com/ It's only open to people with HN accounts, it lets you post your biography, location, skills etc. Anyway, I hope you like it and find it useful.

    2010 · hackernewsers.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 →

  8. 8VT

    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 →

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    A 24/7 TV station made up from the best HN videos

    2019 · crowdform.studio · its alternatives →

  10. 10HT
  11. 11HN
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    Like Google-News, but for hackers

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I’m Julien and I built a recommendation engine for Hacker News. I feel like this website is a gold mine. Every day, I find some very interesting stories about a topic. And sometimes, I want to find other stories covering that same topic but I can’t. Hacker News has years of history of awesome discussion and ressources. Unfortunately, I think HN Algolia isn’t helpful in searching these old threads. As a student, I want to learn a lot from this website. This is why I created HN Recommend. Input a sentence or the URL of an article, and get the most popular and similar posts from Hacker…

    2023 · hn-recommend.julienc.me · its alternatives →

  14. 14HN

    Based on your feedback (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8874801) we've released a new version of the Hacker News Search. It's accessible through the search box in the footer of Hacker News. We hope you'll enjoy the new minimal design and the additional features. Feel free to give us your dream list of improvements :) ChangeLog: 2015-01-19 - Custom date range picker - Responsive design - New "comments[<>=]X" syntax to filter by number of comments - If the story doesn't have any URL, the link goes to the HN discussion - Here and there cosmetics improvements (less padding,…

    2015 · hn.algolia.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15HN

    The best ideas are both simple and outlandish.

    2012 · normansoven.com · its alternatives →

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    Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17FH

    Hey HN. I created this website. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pj4533.com&#x2F;hn-overlooked&#x2F; It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this. I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R ). But I…

    2025 · pj4533.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;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 →

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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 →

  21. 21

    HN Deck: An alternate way to browse Hacker News

    2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22IN

    I noticed I was getting side tracked reading Hacker News, checking back, reading articles, comments, etc. It felt like my productivity was being hampered so I created a simple web app to receive the most popular stories in a daily email. http://dailyhn.com

    2011 · dailyhn.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Latest news for hackers, startup founders, and tech addicts

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Best of Hacker News Daily

    2020 · hackernewsday.com · its alternatives →

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