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24 alternatives to I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News
This tool monitors Hacker News and alerts users when specific keywords or topics appear in new posts or comments. Built by someone seeking a more efficient way to track discussions, it functions similarly to Google… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.
Jun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →
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2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · news.ycombniator.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · hntrends.jerodsanto.net · its alternatives →
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2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (https://hackersearch.net), a semantic search engine for Hacker News. Type a keyword or a description of what you're interested in, and you'll get top links from HN surfaced to you along with brief summaries. Unlike HN's otherwise very valuable search feature, Hacker Search doesn't require you to get your keywords exactly right. That's achieved by leveraging OpenAI's latest embedding models alongside more traditional indexes extracted from the scraped and cleaned up contents of the links. I think there are many more interesting things…
2024 · hackersearch.net · its alternatives →
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Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.
Jun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · eliot-jones.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · hn.luap.info · its alternatives →
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2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →
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Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →
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The best ideas are both simple and outlandish.
2012 · normansoven.com · its alternatives →
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Did you want to know topics of the news or popularity of posts? "Hacker News Hack" helps you to find news based on some categories and importance or popularity. It tagged news with 9 categories with a natural language processing technology and supervised learning for categorizing news. It also calculates a speed of number of comments in each posts as popularity based on term, that is 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year.
2014 · newshack.io · its alternatives →
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I've been working on and off on a Chrome Extension for Hacker News, the extension focusses on improved usability rather than design. I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back to regular Hacker News. Give it a try, features include: - Improved readability - Quick inline replies from comments page - Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames - Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user - Endless scrolling - Collapsible comment threads - Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer Forks, improvements and comments…
2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · collectoral.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →
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We’ve released a new version of the HackerNews search tool available from the bottom of this page. CHANGELOG: Backend - Rewrote the indexing process and web server - Now running on cloud infrastructure (GCP) - Improved speed of get object API endpoint - No more need for a database, so we removed it - Fixed indexing logic for story types - Fixed indexing logic for updated items Frontend - You can now filter by story type! - Removed Popularity sort-by on Comments and Jobs (Score isn’t retrievable so sort-by popular was prioritizing old comments) - Removed "all" filter type (let us know if you…
2023 · hn.aloglia.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News commenting improvement extension for Google Chrome - j-clark/hacked_hacker_news
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, we developed a tool that can easily tell you the overall sentiment of a message based on a word. For now it’s hacker news only but we think this thing has potential. Whether you’re a startup, solopreneur or product manager, you can track trends with it. We are also planning to add predictive tools and real time analysis. Operationally this tool is a lot cheaper than Sprout Social or other similar solutions on the market. No sign-up required. Just type and see results. I'd love your feedback on the tool's usefulness and any ideas for improvement.
2024 · classysoftware.io · its alternatives →
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