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. HackNews – Not an Ugly Hacker News Reader launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   HackNews▲23

   Not an Ugly Hacker News Reader

   2018 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Hackero▲148

   An unbiased reader for Hacker News

   2019 · its alternatives →

3. 3HS
   Hacker Search – real time search for Hacker News▲32

   2017 · hacker-search.net · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Slack-HN▲99

   Read Hacker News right from Slack

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   MackerNews▲84

   Beautiful Readable Hacker News Articles

   2015 · mackernews.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   hn.▲78

   Yet another client to browse Hacker News

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   HackerWeb▲88

   A simple and readable Hacker News app

   2016 · hackerwebapp.com · its alternatives →

8. 8CF
   Cheddar for Hacker News, a Free and Lightweight Hacker News Reader▲6

   2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

9. 9YA
   Yet Another Hacker News Interface▲8

   2021 · yahni.news · its alternatives →

10. 10HN
    Hacker News for Busy People▲5

    2022 · supertechnews.com · its alternatives →

11. 11HN
    Hacker News 2.0 - A Work in Progress▲7

    2012 · hn2.co · its alternatives →

12. 12HN
    Hacker News TLDR▲7

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

13. 13
    Hacky – a user-friendly Hacker News reader built in React Native▲7

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

14. 14HN
    Hacker News Radio▲7

    This is a little project I have been working on that lets you listen to Hacker News. Please note that is SERIOUSLY BETA. http://hackernewsradio.com

    2011 · hackernewsradio.com · its alternatives →

15. 15RA
    ReadHN, A Hacker News reader with some nice little functionalities:)▲5

    A Hacker News client with a clean, mobile friendly UI. Features : - bookmark stories. follow discussions / read them later at your convenience. - quickly search for articles using keywords. No more scrolling through the website. - easily managable nested comments. I love the current Hacker News experience and I don't believe my client is in any way a substitute to the original website. Built it over a few days for fun and found myself coming back to it once in a while for some of the features. Wanted to share this with the community. Let me know what you folks think :)

    2022 · read-hn.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

16. 16IN
    I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News▲14

    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 →

17. 17
    Hacker News Rankings to catch up on the trending stories you missed▲7

    2018 · hakaran.com · its alternatives →

18. 18AP
    a "personalized" Hacker News▲8

    2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →

19. 19HR
    HN4D: Recent Hacker News Front Page Activity▲7

    2012 · hn4d.com · its alternatives →

20. 20NA
    Non addictive and pinnable Hacker News reader▲5

    2019 · 8hrs.xyz · its alternatives →

21. 21RH
    Responsive Hacker News written in Go, with source▲5

    2015 · gohacker.news · its alternatives →

22. 2211
    1News – 1 sentence summarized news – inspired by Hacker News▲7

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

23. 23HN
    Hacker News channel on Denso (Videos from popular posts on HN)▲9

    We're still in private beta but would love to give more invites and get feedback.

    2011 · its alternatives →

24. 24HN
    Hacker News comments for your blog▲7

    2020 · hndisq.xyz · its alternatives →

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