Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Page and crawler that show flagged HN submissions only launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Find HN threads about the page you're browsing▲260

   Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   HN Search (Experimental)▲112

   A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Our weekend project - HN Showcase, browse "Show HN" posts▲63

   http://www.hnshowcase.com Moses (nnythm) and I browse Hacker News daily. Show HN posts are some of our favorite parts of HN. We wanted to create a way to browse Show HN articles, even those that might not quite make it to the front page. We created http://www.hnshowcase.com last weekend to make discovering projects posted on HN easier. It searches all "Show HN" posts and generates a thumbnail view for each of them. You can sort by submission date, points, and number of comments, and navigate with left/right or j/k keys. We used the following technologies: HN Search API, Pyramid web…

   2011 · hnshowcase.com · its alternatives →

4. 4AH
   Apply HN Aggregator▲56

   2016 · thefinac.tk · its alternatives →

5. 5UA
   Updating archive of HN's /newest, with pre-rendering of the URLs▲32

   2013 · hnflood.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   A userscript that adds archive URLs below the paywalled HN submissions▲63

   This userscript adds archive URLs to the metadata section of HN submissions without breaking the immersion. Here are 2 screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/PdUu6oG GreasyFork: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/452024-hacker-news-anti-pa... Source code: https://github.com/MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall Now let me overexplain. -Why?- I never liked paywalled articles. I understand where they come from, but I don't like where we cross our paths. This is why I don't use major news aggregators anymore. Instead, I spend my…

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Prerender▲72

   Crawlable HTML snapshots for SPAs

   2014 · prerender.io · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Prune Unwanted Stories from HN Front Page▲49

   2012 · swapped.cc · its alternatives →

9. 9AF
   API for crawling and filtering content▲5

   2015 · docs.backstit.ch · its alternatives →

10. 10AP
    a portal to view HN Polls(prototype)▲5

    2013 · hn-polls.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

11. 11PF
    Posts from Hacker News tagged "Show HN"▲35

    My first python app, it displays posts from hacker news that is tagged under "Show HN"...

    2013 · showhnapp.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    HN comments sidebar bookmarklet▲49

    Hacker News comments sidebar bookmarklet. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13HR
    HN Rank Chrome extension▲26

    Chrome extension that shows you how many times a website has been upvoted on HackerNews.

    2015 · jitbit.com · its alternatives →

14. 14MY
    Make your single page app crawlable by Google with a simple redirect.▲5

    2013 · crawlspa.com · its alternatives →

15. 15RH
    Reddit + HN Keyword tracker▲8

    2014 · karmalytics.co · its alternatives →

16. 16TY
    Track your HN post▲9

    2012 · s.myezapp.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    An extension that shows you relevant HN comments when you browse▲5

    2020 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

18. 18IM
    I made a URL shortener for HN▲8

    2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    HN Hiring Pro▲17

    Filter, track & organize jobs on HN hiring threads.

    2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

20. 20DT
    Don't get slashdotted when your link hits the HN front page▲12

    I'm sick and tired of clicking interesting links on the HN front page, only to get a spinning loader and waiting 10+ seconds for nothing. I'm not going to take the time to find the Google cache for your site, so if you want me to read what you wrote, please consider doing at least the bare minimum to keep your site running when I visit: 1. Use a static page cache / serve static HTML. Either use something like Varnish, or if you don't want to configure it or you're on a shared host, use one of the following extensions/techniques to statically cache pages: - Wordpress:…

    2013 · its alternatives →

21. 21EP
    Ever posted to HN, and received 0 feedback? Here's a solution.▲6

    2013 · hackerfeedback.barber.io · its alternatives →

22. 22AT
    A tool to let you find websites that accept guest post▲9

    2019 · wuztr.com · its alternatives →

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    Tampermonkey userscript for removing HN threads via predefined regexes▲11

    Remove HackerNews threads by regex (for use with https://www.tampermonkey.net/) - removeHackerNewsThreadsByRegex.js

    2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24UO
    uBlock one-liner for regex'ing HN's front page▲7

    news.ycombinator.com##.title:has-text(/\b(Elon|Altman|OpenAI)\b/i):xpath(.. | ../following-sibling::tr[1] | ../following-sibling::tr[2]) I've played around with HN's quirky layout and settled on what I think is a correct way to filter HN's front page based on strings found in the post titles. No scripts or extensions needed. Choose your own blocklist inside the / /i regex construct.

    2023 · its alternatives →

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