Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

HN reader is a browser tool that filters Hacker News content to hide articles about COVID-19 and coronavirus. Designed for users who want to browse Hacker News without seeing pandemic-related coverage, it removes posts… 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 reader that filters out COV**-19 and Coronavir** articles launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1IB
   I built a tool to remove news articles from HN▲131

   2020 · hn.luap.info · its alternatives →

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   Corona Reader by Panda▲148

   Read the latest news and find useful resources about COVID

   2020 · its alternatives →

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   Login with HN (Unofficially)▲436

   (Unofficial) Login with HackerNews

   2022 · loginwithhn.com · its alternatives →

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   Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19▲173

   Laden Sie Phagocyte für Firefox herunter. Versteckt Nachrichten und Artikel über das Coronavirus/COVID-19. Wir alle nehmen die Pandemie und ihre Folgen sehr ernst. Sollten wir uns nicht auf unsere körperliche und geistige Gesundheit konzentrieren, anstatt Todesstatistiken zu verfolgen?

   2020 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →

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   The Coronavirus App▲329

   Follow the epidemic in real time

   2020 · coronavirus.app · its alternatives →

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   Hazumi News 3.0▲99

   Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News

   2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

7. 7ID
   I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?▲86

   2013 · hackernewstab.com · its alternatives →

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   Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN▲442

   2020 · hndex.org · its alternatives →

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   HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts▲225

   The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.

   25d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →

10. 10HC
    HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification▲180

    2016 · hnchat.com · its alternatives →

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    Prune Unwanted Stories from HN Front Page▲49

    2012 · swapped.cc · its alternatives →

12. 12FA
    Filter and read Hacker News by category▲78

    2015 · blog.monkeylearn.com · its alternatives →

13. 13MH
    My HN – filter recent top Hacker News by your favorite topics▲16

    2019 · hn.okphp.com · its alternatives →

14. 14AH
    A HN desktop app for reading links and comments next to each other▲54

    2016 · florian.github.io · its alternatives →

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    HN Deck – An alternative way to browse Hacker News▲115

    HN Deck: An alternate way to browse Hacker News

    2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.com · its alternatives →

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    Filter the web by Hacker News▲146

    2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →

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    HNWatch – Watch HN, filter stories, get e-mail alerts▲18

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Browse Hacker News from the Comfort of Your Terminal▲83

    :newspaper: CLI to browse Hacker News. Contribute to rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Find HN threads about the page you're browsing▲260

    Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20YP
    Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN▲43

    2013 · skimhn.com · its alternatives →

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    Chrome Extension to Filter HN Stories by Keyword▲43

    Chrome extension that allows you to filter HN stories using a comma separated list - ShamariFeaster/chrome-extension-hn-filter

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22AD
    A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News▲193

    We (Nick, Dens, Denzell, Fede, Drew, Aaryan, and Daniel) have been building HN Discovery, a discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News, in our spare time for the past 6 months and are excited to show it! It adds the following features relative to the existing keyword search interface and preserves the existing ones: - no-JS version (hnnojs.trieve.ai) - site:{required_site} and site:{negated-site} filters - public analytics - LLM generated query suggestions based on random stories - recommendations - dense vector semantic search - SPLADE fulltext search - RAG AI chat - order by…

    2024 · hn.trieve.ai · its alternatives →

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    HNRelevant – Add a "related" section to Hacker News▲122

    It's been 2 years since the initial release [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102610). The initial version was a very basic prototype which was not available anywhere beyond the GitHub repo. You had to install it as a userscript or load the extension manually. Since then, it remained simple but better, new features include: - Improved accuracy by also using comments to help gauge the topic of discussion and the right keywords. - Published as plugin for more browsers: Chrome, Firefox (including android), and more recently Microsoft Edge. - Support for narrow screens…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hacker News, Without AIfree▲197

    Source: https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai

    Sep 2026 · unslop.news · its alternatives →

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