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24 alternatives to Hacking Hacker News

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Hacking Hacker News is a tool available on GitHub that engages with Hacker News content. It is designed for users interested in the Hacker News community and platform. The product launched in early 2024 and is… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hacking Hacker News launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Hacker News Simulator▲572

   2015 · news.ycombniator.com · its alternatives →

2. 2HN
   Hacker News Classics▲864

   2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →

3. 3HN
   Hacker News implemented using the new API▲90

   2014 · realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Hacker News API▲317

   Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)

   2014 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →

5. 5HN
   Hacker News Comments▲189

   2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →

6. 6TH
   The Hacker News Button▲52

   2013 · hn-button.com · its alternatives →

7. 7HN
   Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website▲209

   2011 · hn.gethifi.com · its alternatives →

8. 8HN
   Hacker News in real-time▲68

   2011 · hackerstream.com · its alternatives →

9. 9HN
   Hacker News Instant (3 hour project)▲91

   2011 · hninstant.com · its alternatives →

10. 10CO
    Code on Hacker News▲45

    2018 · code.hn · its alternatives →

11. 11
    I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News▲151

    2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →

12. 12BH
    Berlin Hacker News▲145

    2014 · berlinhackernews.com · its alternatives →

13. 13TH
    This Hacker News Does Not Exist▲252

    2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →

14. 14HN
    Hacker News Without News▲146

    Hacker News Without News: A curated newsletter of interesting things.

    2023 · hn.build-your-own.org · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Hacker News Stack▲138

    Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.

    2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

16. 16IM
    I made a Hacker News for podcasts▲367

    2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node▲167

    Hacker News Delivered to Desktop :dancers:. Contribute to owenthereal/hacker-menu development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Hacker Dig▲151

    Digging ideas from Hacker News

    2018 · hackerdig.com · its alternatives →

19. 19TU
    The users behind Hacker News▲193

    2011 · hnwho.com · its alternatives →

20. 20HN
    Hacker News with categories and popularity▲149

    Did you want to know topics of the news or popularity of posts? "Hacker News Hack" helps you to find news based on some categories and importance or popularity. It tagged news with 9 categories with a natural language processing technology and supervised learning for categorizing news. It also calculates a speed of number of comments in each posts as popularity based on term, that is 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year.

    2014 · newshack.io · its alternatives →

21. 21HF
    Hackernews for Mac▲35

    2013 · whimsyapps.com · its alternatives →

22. 22HH
    Hacky – Hacker News app for Mac▲163

    2013 · hackyapp.com · its alternatives →

23. 23AC
    A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News▲183

    2018 · cryptonewsagency.com · its alternatives →

24. 24FT
    Filter the web by Hacker News▲146

    2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →

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