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24 alternatives to MackerNews – Beautiful Readable HN Articles
MackerNews is a macOS application that displays Hacker News articles in a readable format. It stores user data locally and encrypted in the Mac's Keychain for security. The app includes native sharing features that let… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MackerNews – Beautiful Readable HN Articles launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2013 · hackernewstab.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · whimsyapps.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News client for macOS. Contribute to mattrighetti/HNReaderApp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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macOS HackerNews client that aims to be a Mac-assed Mac app. Written in Swift + AppKit. - goranmoomin/HackerNews
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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One▲414Read Product Hunt, HN, DN, Reddit, Medium from Mac menu bar
2014 · one.hackplan.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · hackyapp.com · its alternatives →
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Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.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 →
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Hey HN! I built a native macOS desktop client for Hacker News and I'm open-sourcing it under the MIT license. GitHub: https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News Download (signed & notarized DMG, macOS 14.0+): https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News/releases Screenshots: https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News#screenshots I spend a lot of time reading HN — I wanted something that felt like a proper Mac app: a sidebar for browsing stories, an integrated reader for articles, and comment threading — all in one window.…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · hn.gethifi.com · its alternatives →
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A Gnus backend for Hacker News. Contribute to dickmao/nnhackernews development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HN Deck: An alternate way to browse Hacker News
2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.com · its alternatives →
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Hi folks, I've built an alternative Hacker News front page. It is inspired by and meant to be a replacement for hckrnews.com. I built this because HN is woefully underfeatured, but most sites that try to improve it seem to assume that the visual design is the problem. hcker.news tries to maintain HN's familiarity while adding useful enhancements. There are three primary views: - Timeline View: Browse top stories by votes or comments grouped by day, week, or month (e.g., top 20 per day, top 100 per week). - Aggregate View: See top stories by votes or comments over custom time ranges. - Front…
2025 · hcker.news · its alternatives →
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A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Hacker News
2022 · modernhn.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · hnreads.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · florian.github.io · its alternatives →
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2020 · hn.luap.info · its alternatives →
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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 →
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NetNewsWire 7▲108Free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
Jan 2026 · netnewswire.com · its alternatives →
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