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Products that do what HN Deck – An alternative way to browse Hacker News does

1. 1HN
   Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website▲209

   2011 · hn.gethifi.com

2. 2HT
   HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News▲355

   2011 · hntrends.jerodsanto.net

3. 3HT
   hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions▲160

   2021 · github.com

4. 4HS
   HN Special – A visual theme and Chrome extension for Hacker News▲87

   2013 · gabrielecirulli.github.io

5. 5
   HN Search (Experimental)▲112

   A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

   2015

6. 6HC
   Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions▲335

   2017 · hackerhunt.co

7. 7IW
   I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript▲433

   HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been…

   Jul 2026 · github.com

8. 8HC
   HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification▲180

   2016 · hnchat.com

9. 9DF
   DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages▲324

   2021 · deephn.org

10. 10
    HNwatcher▲136

    Track keywords and users on Hacker News

    2014

11. 11AE
    An Efficient Way to Browse Hacker News▲24

    2014 · xinglab.com

12. 12HN
    HackerNews News Recommender▲97

    2012 · normansoven.com

13. 13HR
    HN Reads – the books of hacker news▲33

    2015 · hnreads.com

14. 14AD
    A different interface for reading Hacker News▲36

    2011 · moeffju.github.com

15. 15HM
    HN Mail – A topic-based newsletter service for Hacker News▲27

    2018 · hnmail.io

16. 16HN
    Hacker News Digest – A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations▲13

    2015 · hackernews.im

17. 17HC
    HN Card, Hacker News Profile Overlay▲35

    2019 · github.com

18. 18
    HN Cards▲142

    Stay on top of Hacker News, Tinder-style

    2014

19. 19VY
    Visualize your Hacker News activity▲132

    2020 · showcase.metamate.io

20. 20HH
    HNLive – Hacker News in Real Time▲51

    2016 · hnlive.cf

21. 21HG
    HN Glance – a visual way to read Hacker News▲6

    Jul 2026 · hnglance.com

22. 22FT
    Filter the web by Hacker News▲146

    2016 · hackernewsfilter.com

23. 23
    Slack-HN▲99

    Read Hacker News right from Slack

    2015

24. 24HG
    hncynic – Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles▲114

    2019 · hncynic.leod.org

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