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. Hackernews for Quotes launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Hacker News Search▲92

   a faster hnsearch

   2014 · hn.algolia.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Slack-HN▲99

   Read Hacker News right from Slack

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3AP
   a "personalized" Hacker News▲8

   2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   MackerNews▲84

   Beautiful Readable Hacker News Articles

   2015 · mackernews.com · its alternatives →

5. 5HN
   Hacker News comments for your blog▲7

   2020 · hndisq.xyz · its alternatives →

6. 6
   HackerBuzz▲68

   Hacker News trend visualization

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7HN
   Hacker News TLDR▲7

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

8. 8
   Hacker News For Ideas▲6

   2013 · firespotting.com · its alternatives →

9. 9YA
   Yet Another Hacker News Interface▲8

   2021 · yahni.news · its alternatives →

10. 10RH
    Responsive Hacker News written in Go, with source▲5

    2015 · gohacker.news · its alternatives →

11. 11HN
    Hacker News for Busy People▲5

    2022 · supertechnews.com · its alternatives →

12. 12HN
    Hacker News homepage with links to comments ordered by most recent▲7

    2024 · observablehq.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Hacker News▲19

    precursor to Product Hunt

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14HN
    Hacker news for science▲9

    2017 · peers.science · its alternatives →

15. 15HS
    Hacker Search – real time search for Hacker News▲32

    2017 · hacker-search.net · its alternatives →

16. 16HN
    HackNews – Not an Ugly Hacker News Reader▲6

    2018 · hacknews.launchaco.com · its alternatives →

17. 17HN
    Hacker News, by the numbers▲9

    2015 · arnauddri.github.io · its alternatives →

18. 18TM
    Time machine for HackerNews▲9

    2014 · tthn.wenbin.org · its alternatives →

19. 1911
    1News – 1 sentence summarized news – inspired by Hacker News▲7

    2016 · news.1news.me · its alternatives →

20. 20AH
    A Hacker News for Marketers▲5

    2012 · inbound.org · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Prettier Hacker News Front End▲7

    2020 · hackernews-kappa.vercel.app · its alternatives →

22. 22HN
    Hacker News Daily Newsletter▲6

    2015 · nielsole.github.io · its alternatives →

23. 23SH
    See Hacker News submissions while you browse▲6

    2020 · epiverse.co · its alternatives →

24. 24
    hacker▲7

    Hacker News in the Command Line.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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