Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to OldSkool, an old-style forum viewer for Hacker News
Oldskool Hacker News Interface
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. OldSkool, an old-style forum viewer for Hacker News launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1HN
2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →
- 2
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 →
- 3HN
2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
- 4
- 5
- 6
2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →
- 7HN
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 →
- 8AV
2022 · v20.ohayo.computer · its alternatives →
- 9HN
2020 · eliot-jones.com · its alternatives →
- 10
A Hacker News lookalike written in Python/Django, powering https://news.python.sc - sebst/pythonic-news
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 11
My personal itch to scratch just recently has been the umpteen formatting foibles of HackerNews. So, in the spirit of making the web more personal again, I knocked up a TamperMonkey userscript to fix up the worst of my personal bugbears. This isn't an attempt at a complete rebrand/redesign of the site, instead it's just fixing up what I think are the biggest design/readability issues whilst trying to remain true to the site's existing aesthetic. Key features: * Base font size increased * A little more room around headings * Top menu bar is full-width and with a little more padding…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 12
Newsit▲63Find the discussion around the page you're looking at!
2018 · newsit.benwinding.com · its alternatives →
- 13AE
2014 · xinglab.com · its alternatives →
- 14HS
2017 · hacker-search.net · its alternatives →
- 15UT
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 →
- 16AD
2011 · moeffju.github.com · its alternatives →
- 17YA
2021 · yahni.news · its alternatives →
- 18B
- 19
A fast, resilient, isomorphic hacker news clone in ~1k lines of rust. - ivanceras/hackernews-sauron
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 20
2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
- 21HN
2015 · hacker-news.xyz · its alternatives →
- 22T1
2016 · sizzleanalytics.com · its alternatives →
- 23
You may have seen this earlier with it's initial release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42056334 Now new features: Instant search/filter: Press / or use the command palette to filter stories as you type Command Palette: Press Ctrl+K to access all commands, including search, section switching, and more Options menu for each story (summarize, open, close) Section switching: Top, Ask, Show, Jobs Easy install & run with Cargo Feedback, comments, feature requests welcome.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 24FH
Hide deeply threaded comments in hacker news.
2014 · sagargv.blogspot.com · its alternatives →
Also compare
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →