Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hakaran
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hakaran launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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A more informative and 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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HN Deck: An alternate way to browse Hacker News
2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.com · its alternatives →
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A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Hacker News
2022 · modernhn.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I made this free browser extension that modernizes the Hacker News design. I previously launched Modern for Wikipedia [1] here back in December, and it seemed like the obvious next choice to build one for HN too! So I've taken what I learned from building that, and have spent all my spare time this year building Modern for HN. I realize this won't be for everyone, but it was a fun project to work on, and I'm really happy with the result so far. Hope you like it too! Lots more planned for future updates, and suggestions welcome :) [1]…
2022 · modernhn.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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HackerNews reader powered by Algolia's API
2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
24d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →
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A Kotlin/Swing desktop application front-end for Hacker News - westoncb/HNDesktop
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · hndex.ml · its alternatives →
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2020 · hn.luap.info · its alternatives →
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A database of top ranking Hacker News front page posts
2020 · harishgarg.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! TLDR; - Quality News is a Hacker News client that provides additional data and insights on submissions, notably, the upvoteRate metric. - We propose that this metric could be used to improve the Hacker News ranking score. - In-depth explanation: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme The Hacker News ranking score is directly proportional to upvotes, which is a problem because it creates a feedback loop: higher rank leads to more upvotes leads to higher rank, and so on... → ↗ ↘ Higher Rank More Upvotes ↖ ↙ ← As a consequence, success on HN depends almost…
2023 · news.social-protocols.org · its alternatives →
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Hacker News TV▲141A 24/7 TV station made up from the best HN videos
2019 · crowdform.studio · its alternatives →
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