Alternatives

Products that do what HN Search (Experimental) does

A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

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

   2011 · hn.gethifi.com

2. 2HD
   HN Deck – An alternative way to browse Hacker News▲115

   2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.com

3. 3
   Hazumi News 3.0▲99

   Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News

   2025

4. 4
   HNwatcher▲136

   Track keywords and users on Hacker News

   2014

5. 5HT
   HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News▲355

   2011 · hntrends.jerodsanto.net

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

   2017 · hackerhunt.co

7. 7DF
   DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages▲324

   2021 · deephn.org

8. 8HS
   HN Special – A visual theme and Chrome extension for Hacker News▲87

   2013 · gabrielecirulli.github.io

9. 9HB
   Hackernews-Button – Bloom Filter-based, private HN browsing extension▲74

   2021 · github.com

10. 10
    Modern for Hacker News▲167

    A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Hacker News

    2022

11. 11HC
    HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification▲180

    2016 · hnchat.com

12. 12HT
    hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions▲160

    2021 · github.com

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

    2015 · hackernews.im

14. 14IM
    I made an HN job board▲149

    I noticed the who's hiring threads are very popular every month, so I decided to create a job board specifically for hacker news. You can tag jobs, search, view user's profiles and more. Tell me what you guys thing! Any feedback is appreciated.

    2013 · hnjobs.org

15. 15
    Hacker News for Messenger▲128

    Interact, search and follow the latest HN posts on Messenger

    2016

16. 16
    Hacker Dig▲151

    Digging ideas from Hacker News

    2018

17. 17HT
    hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting▲109

    2016 · hnlive.tk

18. 18
    Hacker News for macOS▲149

    A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI

    Feb 2026

19. 19PF
    Posts from Hacker News tagged "Show HN"▲35

    My first python app, it displays posts from hacker news that is tagged under "Show HN"...

    2013 · showhnapp.herokuapp.com

20. 20OW
    Our weekend project - HN Showcase, browse "Show HN" posts▲63

    http://www.hnshowcase.com Moses (nnythm) and I browse Hacker News daily. Show HN posts are some of our favorite parts of HN. We wanted to create a way to browse Show HN articles, even those that might not quite make it to the front page. We created http://www.hnshowcase.com last weekend to make discovering projects posted on HN easier. It searches all "Show HN" posts and generates a thumbnail view for each of them. You can sort by submission date, points, and number of comments, and navigate with left/right or j/k keys. We used the following technologies: HN Search API, Pyramid web…

    2011

21. 21HM
    HN Mail – A topic-based newsletter service for Hacker News▲27

    2018 · hnmail.io

22. 22
    Hacker News Search▲92

    a faster hnsearch

    2014

23. 23HT
    HN Text Analytics – Check what’s trending on Hacker News▲16

    2018 · hn.textalytics.io

24. 24
    Hacker News Launcher for Android▲72

    Easiest way to know what's trending on Hacker News.

    2019

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