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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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    A less addictive Hacker News

    2020 · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    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 · its alternatives →

  4. 4
    HNwatcher▲136

    Track keywords and users on Hacker News

    2014 · 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 →

  6. 6VT

    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 · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)

    2014 · its alternatives →

  9. 9FH
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    Like Google-News, but for hackers

    2015 · its alternatives →

  11. 11MR

    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 →

  12. 12HD
  13. 13FH

    Hey HN. I created this website. https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/ 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://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R ). But I…

    2025 · pj4533.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14IB
  15. 15HS

    Hi HN! I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (https://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 →

  16. 16IM

    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 →

  17. 17HC

    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 · its alternatives →

  18. 18HN
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    Best of Hacker News Daily

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Interact, search and follow the latest HN posts on Messenger

    2016 · its alternatives →

  21. 21SH

    I built this tool to help me find interesting discussions on Hacker News. I love reading HN discussions almost more than the articles themselves. However, I found that full text search, although highly performant, is not always good at surfacing interesting discussions on a certain topic -- especially if you don't know what to search for exactly. I built this by scraping the most recent ~6 million posts (that's about 2 years of history) and putting the resulting posts and their vector embeddings into Postgres. Let me know what could be improved, and if you'd like a more detailed writeup of…

    2024 · searchhacker.news · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

    2015 · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Listen to the best articles on HackerNews.

    2019 · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.

    Jun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · its alternatives →

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