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Products that do what I built a tool to remove news articles from HN does

1. 1PU
   Prune Unwanted Stories from HN Front Page▲49

   2012 · swapped.cc

2. 2FT
   Filter the web by Hacker News▲146

   2016 · hackernewsfilter.com

3. 3HD
   HN Deck – An alternative way to browse Hacker News▲115

   2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.com

4. 4IW
   I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript▲433

   HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been…

   Jul 2026 · github.com

5. 5IB
   I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News▲151

   2019 · pipedream.com

6. 6BA
   Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to▲315

   2013 · soundgecko.com

7. 7MP
   My Personal Hacker News Reader▲81

   2014 · github.com

8. 8MN
   My news summarization side project▲30

   2013 · summary.io

9. 9IM
   I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions▲144

   2021 · upvotetracker.com

10. 10
    Haxor News▲97

    A Hacker News command line interface

    2016

11. 11AH
    Augmented Hacker News Reader▲44

    2020 · hacker-news.news

12. 12IM
    I made a browser extension that fixes Hacker News' block formatting▲18

    2019 · github.com

13. 13AE
    An Efficient Way to Browse Hacker News▲24

    2014 · xinglab.com

14. 14AD
    A different interface for reading Hacker News▲36

    2011 · moeffju.github.com

15. 15IB
    I built a tool to remove unwanted elements from photos▲41

    2021 · cutout.pro

16. 16CE
    Chrome extension that hides Medium.com articles on HN and DN▲22

    2014 · chrome.google.com

17. 17CU
    Create ultra shortcut like hn/ to Hacker News▲8

    2022 · i-feel-lucky.com

18. 18RA
    RTFA, a Chrome extension to hide HN comments until you read the article▲44

    2014 · chrome.google.com

19. 19HN
    Hacker News client with story filtering▲21

    2017 · diethn.gq

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

    2013 · skimhn.com

21. 21CE
    Chrome Extension to Filter HN Stories by Keyword▲43

    2017 · github.com

22. 22CO
    Code on Hacker News▲45

    2018 · code.hn

23. 23AC
    A Chrome extension to block users on Hacker News▲37

    2015 · github.com

24. 24AL
    A Links Crawler for News▲10

    2020 · github.com

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