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This web application lets users browse Hacker News stories in a Pinterest-style grid layout instead of the traditional list format. Built with Vue.js, it presents news articles and discussion threads as visual cards… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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  4. 4HN

    2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →

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    Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Hi folks this is a project I worked on with some of my students when I was running an online JS programming course. Although the online course is no more, I finally got around to releasing Hacker Herald with a former instructor and student - thanks Arnav and Archis! To those wondering if there is a need for such a Hacker News front end, I would just point out that most newspaper websites are laid out like this - clearly some people like this kind of layout! Also for some stories a picture really does help - currently there is a HN story titled, "Portland airport grows with expansive mass…

    2024 · hackerherald.com · its alternatives →

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    HackerWeb▲189

    A simply readable Hacker News app

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9HN

    The best ideas are both simple and outlandish.

    2012 · normansoven.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 →

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    Web site created using create-react-app

    2020 · showcase.metamate.io · its alternatives →

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    Hacker News Delivered to Desktop :dancers:. Contribute to owenthereal/hacker-menu development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.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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    I've been working on and off on a Chrome Extension for Hacker News, the extension focusses on improved usability rather than design. I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back to regular Hacker News. Give it a try, features include: - Improved readability - Quick inline replies from comments page - Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames - Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user - Endless scrolling - Collapsible comment threads - Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer Forks, improvements and comments…

    2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

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    A Hacker News Reader in Vanilla JavaScript. Contribute to k2052/vanilla-hn development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I hacked together this fun project that lets you play any article on the front page of Hacker News as an interactive text game. You can create a game about anything by going to infinityarcade.com/ You can also use a URL, which is what this page uses. The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/themaximal1st/InfinityArcade

    2023 · infinityarcade.com · its alternatives →

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    Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.

    2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549 It works with comments, too: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253 Hastily-developed source: https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I'm excited to share a tool I've been working on - a native Hacker News reader built with Rust and egui. Here's a screenshot: https://github.com/haojiang99/hacker_news_reader/blob/main/s.... As a daily HN reader, I've always struggled with keeping track of interesting posts I want to read later. Browser tabs pile up, bookmarks get forgotten, and I lose track of what I've already read. I needed a way to: 1. Browse HN efficiently (across all sections - hot, new, show, ask, jobs, best) 2. Quickly mark posts as "todo" for later reading 3. Mark posts as…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22AV

    2022 · v20.ohayo.computer · its alternatives →

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    A Kotlin/Swing desktop application front-end for Hacker News - westoncb/HNDesktop

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all, I've been part of the Hacker News community since 2009 (under a different profile, latchkey), and over the years I've accumulated many ideas for improving the experience. I've used HNES, Refined Hacker News, and other extensions, and saved countless ideas along the way. Many promising projects were eventually abandoned. That may happen here too, but this is something I've wanted to explore personally for a long time. With AI making experimentation easier, now feels like the right time to do it. The goal isn't to redesign Hacker News. Its minimal UX works, and no one wants to relearn…

    Apr 2026 · oj-hn.com · its alternatives →

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