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24 alternatives to HN buzz

Telegram bot for Hacker News posts filtered by your keywords

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. HN buzz launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1HN

    2024 · hackernews.bot · its alternatives →

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    Telegram bot for all kinds of notifications from Hacker News

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Get Slack notifications for HN mentions

    2022 · hn-slack-bot.vercel.app · 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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    Interact, search and follow the latest HN posts on Messenger

    2016 · messenger.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Just for fun, I built an interactive Hacker News Simulator. You can submit text posts and links, just like the real HN. But on HN Simulator, all of the comments are generated by LLMs + generate instantly. The best way to use it (IMHO) is to submit a text post or a curl-able URL here: https://news.ysimulator.run/submit. You don't need an account to post. When you do that, various prompts will be built from a library of commenter archetypes, moods, and shapes. The AI commenters will actually respond to your text post and/or submitted link. I really wanted it to feel…

    Nov 2025 · news.ysimulator.run · its alternatives →

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    News stories pushed to you via Telegram messenger

    2016 · telegram.me · its alternatives →

  8. 8TH

    2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I build this bot to automate the process of going to wayback machine (or archive.ph) to find the archive link for posts with articles that have subscription blocks The idea was to have this run on a server and then I wouldn’t have this daily annoyance, the bot was banned, so its not currently active, but I still wanted to show it off and get some feedback Disclaimer : HN doesn't allow bots, so please don’t use this to run your own HN bot.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    All top PH and HackerNews posts, directly to telegram!

    2020 · aysh.me · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    Hi HN! I’ve been lurking for a while, but out of fear of being steamrolled by HN readers or maybe just natural introversion, I’ve always been too scared to post or comment. Which is why 1. this is my first real Hacker News submission 2. my friend Michael and I built "Fake" Hacker News, a place to post and see what AI-generated HN comments might say. Here’s a video of me using fakeHN to test this very submission: https://www.loom.com/share/4b9f4f9d7c77489a86baeb92ec55a1ed?... And an example of one of our generated posts:…

    2023 · fakehn.com · its alternatives →

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    HNwatcher▲136

    Track keywords and users on Hacker News

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    HN Summary is an open source bot which sumarizes top stories on Hacker News and publishes the summaries to a Telegram channel. Whenever a new story appears on the Hacker News API /topstories.json endpoint, this bot summarizes it (currently using OpenAI GPT-3 text-davinci-002) and sends the story title, summary, and url to the hn_summary channel on Telegram. The purpose of this project is to help build intuition on the capabilities of the current generation of large language models while making a broader swath of top Hacker News content more easily accessible. It could also serve as a…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A better Hacker News reader for following stories, filtering noise, and keeping up with discussions.

    Sep 2026 · hcker.news · its alternatives →

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    Botcast for any given theme

    2025 · t.me · its alternatives →

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    BuzzBot▲84

    BuzzFeed's latest (political) news bot

    2016 · messenger.com · its alternatives →

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    Hacker-AI▲201

    A/B test your HackerNews titles with AI before publishing

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Personalized daily updates from HN in your Messenger inbox

    2017 · facebook.com · its alternatives →

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    HackerWeb▲189

    A simply readable Hacker News app

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    NewsBot▲189

    The fastest way to find related articles

    2015 · pedicuresalonaangenaam.nl · its alternatives →

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    A 24/7 TV station made up from the best HN videos

    2019 · crowdform.studio · its alternatives →

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    Need a little good news in your life?

    2016 · goodnewsbot.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Receive a daily digest of the newest startups on Messenger!

    2016 · messenger.com · its alternatives →

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