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Products that do what HN Firehose does

Pulling the latest comments and submissions from the HN API every 30 seconds.

1. 1HR
   HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments▲217

   2016 · hnreplies.com

2. 2EH
   Embed HN comments in your website▲137

   2016 · comments.network

3. 3GL
   Get latest replies to an HN user▲42

   Hi HN, I hacked a simple service for gathering HN replies and organizing them by the parent's username. The main idea is to be able to efficiently get the latest replies to an HN user. For example, you can use this service to send yourself notifications when some replies to you on HN. The service queries the official HN API and can be self-hosted. It is basically ~30 lines of Bash script. I made this mostly for educational purposes -- thought you might find it useful for something. Cheers! Edit: for example, here are the latest replies to me [0]. It includes only recent replies, since I…

   2022 · github.com

4. 4WI
   When is good time to submit a story on HN?▲269

   2011 · hnpickup.appspot.com

5. 5AC
   A Chrome extension to see notifications for comments on your HN threads▲79

   2021 · chrome.google.com

6. 6UF
   Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads▲248

   2021 · trungdq88.github.io

7. 7IM
   I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions▲144

   2021 · upvotetracker.com

8. 8HT
   hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting▲109

   2016 · hnlive.tk

9. 9AH
   Archivy-HN – automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts▲144

   2020 · github.com

10. 10BH
    Browse HN Comments by Timestamp▲12

    2021 · github.com

11. 11HL
    Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader▲102

    2015 · 2ton.com.au

12. 12HG
    HNNotify – Get emailed when a users reply to your HN Posts and Comments▲66

    2018 · hnnotify.xyz

13. 13HN
    HN Notify - Email reply notifications for comments and posts.▲32

    2011 · hnnotify.com

14. 14QA
    Q&A for HN users▲142

    2012 · askolo.com

15. 15BE
    Browser extension to read HN comments for any url, in ClojureScript▲69

    2018 · github.com

16. 16
    HN Comments Owl▲77

    Highlight new Hacker News comments, and other UX tweaks

    2019

17. 17HD
    HN Demetricator – An extension that removes upvote and comment counts▲92

    2020 · github.com

18. 18HO
    HN Offline – HN client for reading comments▲6

    2020 · hn.byroni.us

19. 19HN
    HN Notifier Realtime(ish) Notifications for Comments on Your HN Posts▲6

    2020 · hacknotescenter.com

20. 20HH
    hnpc – Highlight New/Updated Posts & New Comments (User Script)▲20

    2011 · github.com

21. 21HC
    HN Comment Saver▲5

    Jul 2026 · github.com

22. 22AP
    Automated post to HN at the perfect time▲15

    2013 · hnbuffer.com

23. 23WS
    What's HN Working On – A structured dataset▲7

    The latest Ask HN: What are you working[1] on thread just dropped. And to give my own answer, building structured datasets! I wrote a quick scraper for the HN comments. Just pulling every top level comment along with its replies as a nested object. This ended up pulling 642 top level comments with about 458 replies. I created a posrgres db with this original data set. The replies I just concatenated together in the order they came in (with an indent field to mark what level comment it was. Then stringified the json array and added it to the db. I generated the structured data using my own…

    2024 · github.com

24. 24CT
    CLI tool to get current HN top posts▲5

    2022 · github.com

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