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24 alternatives to Login with HN (Unofficially)
(Unofficial) Login with HackerNews
Login with HN is an unofficial authentication tool that lets users sign in to websites using their Hacker News account credentials. Launched in January 2022, it offers a streamlined alternative to creating separate… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Login with HN (Unofficially) launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1SHShow HN▲1,302
2014 · news.ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
- 2WH
2015 · waybackhn.com · its alternatives →
- 3MH
Hey HN! I just published https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city. How it works? Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 1. Fill the form: username, city+country 2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description. 3. Click "Add me on the map" Optionnaly (it's recommended!) you can add links to your socials as well as some tags to showcase your interests. Why does it exist? I created this because, despite its harsh reputation on the internet, I love the HN community. I…
2024 · its alternatives →
- 4HC
2016 · hnchat.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News on the Terminal. Contribute to ciaranarcher/hacker_term development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 6HB
Get your public IP address instantly. Simple, fast, and reliable API for developers.
2021 · hnbadges.netlify.app · its alternatives →
- 7EH
2016 · comments.network · its alternatives →
- 8ID
2013 · hackernewstab.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
- 10HC
There's been lots of discussion recently about finding other HNers to talk to / bounce ideas off / work with, some Google spreadsheets were set up to share details but they were soon vandalised. I had a spare afternoon yesterday (which turned into a long day) and here's the result: http://www.hackernewsers.com/ It's only open to people with HN accounts, it lets you post your biography, location, skills etc. Anyway, I hope you like it and find it useful.
2010 · hackernewsers.com · its alternatives →
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The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
25d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →
- 12HT
2011 · hntrends.jerodsanto.net · its alternatives →
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Hi! I’m Julien and I built a recommendation engine for Hacker News. I feel like this website is a gold mine. Every day, I find some very interesting stories about a topic. And sometimes, I want to find other stories covering that same topic but I can’t. Hacker News has years of history of awesome discussion and ressources. Unfortunately, I think HN Algolia isn’t helpful in searching these old threads. As a student, I want to learn a lot from this website. This is why I created HN Recommend. Input a sentence or the URL of an article, and get the most popular and similar posts from Hacker…
2023 · hn-recommend.julienc.me · its alternatives →
- 14VT
Hi HN. I was surprised that there wasn't a feature here that lets you go back in time to the front page of Hacker News on a random day...so I made one. http://randomhackernews.com is a simple HTML page that navigates you to the front page of HN on a random day between today and February 19, 2007 (the oldest date I could find with content). I made this for myself, but figured others may find some interest in it.
2024 · randomhackernews.com · its alternatives →
- 15QAQ&A for HN users▲142
2012 · askolo.com · its alternatives →
- 16HS
2013 · gabrielecirulli.github.io · its alternatives →
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I wrote a small Chrome extension that allows the user to replace all usernames on Hacker News with either the string `anonymous` or a deterministic hashed value.
2023 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that adds profile overlays to Hacker News usernames - mudulo/hncard
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 19FH
Hi HN! I’ve been lurking for a while, but out of fear of being steamrolled by HN readers or maybe just natural introversion, I’ve always been too scared to post or comment. Which is why 1. this is my first real Hacker News submission 2. my friend Michael and I built "Fake" Hacker News, a place to post and see what AI-generated HN comments might say. Here’s a video of me using fakeHN to test this very submission: https://www.loom.com/share/4b9f4f9d7c77489a86baeb92ec55a1ed?... And an example of one of our generated posts:…
2023 · fakehn.com · its alternatives →
- 20YP
2013 · skimhn.com · its alternatives →
- 21
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 24HF
2014 · hn-follow.desh.es · its alternatives →
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- Show HN alternatives
- Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News alternatives
- Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city alternatives
- HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification alternatives
- HN In Your Terminal alternatives
- HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your HN profile alternatives
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