Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HN4D: Recent Hacker News Front Page Activity launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1HN
   Hacker News Outliers▲147

   I made a little website with a server that collects only HN submissions with > 500 upvotes chronologically. https://hn.moritz.pm/ It's quite simple because I wanted to learn from the project. But I think it's useful, to get a summary of what was important over the last days. The UI is almost identical to the HN frontpage, you can click on the comments to view the thread and on the username to see the profile. The rest of the cards takes you to the submitted URL.

   2024 · hn.moritz.pm · its alternatives →

2. 2
   HNwatcher▲136

   Track keywords and users on Hacker News

   2014 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   hn.▲78

   Yet another client to browse Hacker News

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   HNSlack▲135

   Get the front page of Hacker News in your Slack, every day

   2015 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Slack-HN▲99

   Read Hacker News right from Slack

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   HN Follow▲69

   Follow your friends on Hacker News

   2014 · its alternatives →

7. 7HN
   Hacker News 2.0 - A Work in Progress▲7

   2012 · hn2.co · its alternatives →

8. 8YA
   Yet Another Hacker News Interface▲8

   2021 · yahni.news · its alternatives →

9. 9HS
   Hacker Search – real time search for Hacker News▲32

   2017 · hacker-search.net · its alternatives →

10. 10HN
    Hacker News comments for your blog▲7

    2020 · hndisq.xyz · its alternatives →

11. 11HN
    Hacker News homepage with links to comments ordered by most recent▲7

    2024 · observablehq.com · its alternatives →

12. 12HN
    Hacker News for Busy People▲5

    2022 · supertechnews.com · its alternatives →

13. 13HN
    Hacker News TLDR▲7

    2014 · hn-tldr.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

14. 14HN
    Hacker News channel on Denso (Videos from popular posts on HN)▲9

    We're still in private beta but would love to give more invites and get feedback.

    2011 · its alternatives →

15. 15HP
    Hacker Polls, an aggregator for polls on Hacker News▲6

    2012 · hackerpolls.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Prettier Hacker News Front End▲7

    2020 · hackernews-kappa.vercel.app · its alternatives →

17. 17HN
    Hacker News Daily Newsletter▲6

    2015 · nielsole.github.io · its alternatives →

18. 18TT
    TopHN – Topmost story of Hacker News from the last 24 hours▲8

    2017 · tophn.org · its alternatives →

19. 19HN
    Hacker News, by the numbers▲9

    2015 · arnauddri.github.io · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Simple, readable, chronological front page items from Hacker News▲5

    2021 · hw.leftium.com · its alternatives →

21. 21IN
    I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News▲14

    I noticed I was getting side tracked reading Hacker News, checking back, reading articles, comments, etc. It felt like my productivity was being hampered so I created a simple web app to receive the most popular stories in a daily email. http://dailyhn.com

    2011 · dailyhn.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Hacker News For Ideas▲6

    2013 · firespotting.com · its alternatives →

23. 23SH
    See Hacker News submissions while you browse▲6

    2020 · epiverse.co · its alternatives →

24. 24HN
    Hacker news for science▲9

    2017 · peers.science · its alternatives →

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