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24 alternatives to Real News or Satire? Test Your ability with this game
Hey HN! I'm sharing a project I developed. It's a Tinder-like game where you swipe left or right to guess if a post is from Hacker News or a satire website.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Real News or Satire? Test Your ability with this game launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Test your ability to distinguish between fake and real news
2024 · hackernewssatire.com · its alternatives →
- 2TH
2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →
- 3FH
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 →
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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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Real Fake▲192Guess which startups are real vs. AI generated
2024 · realfakegame.com · its alternatives →
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Parody dating game with a twist and a bunch of swipes!
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Just for fun, I built an interactive Hacker News Simulator. You can submit text posts and links, just like the real HN. But on HN Simulator, all of the comments are generated by LLMs + generate instantly. The best way to use it (IMHO) is to submit a text post or a curl-able URL here: https://news.ysimulator.run/submit. You don't need an account to post. When you do that, various prompts will be built from a library of commenter archetypes, moods, and shapes. The AI commenters will actually respond to your text post and/or submitted link. I really wanted it to feel…
Nov 2025 · news.ysimulator.run · its alternatives →
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- 9HN
i'd forgotten i'd written this a year and a half ago, and when a friend passed me the link to it just now, it seemed hilarious to me. probably some other people will enjoy it too
2023 · canonical.org · its alternatives →
- 10HN
Dec 2025 · dosaygo-studio.github.io · its alternatives →
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Random Hacker News front page generated with AI
2025 · thishackernewsdoesnotexist.com · its alternatives →
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Are you up to date on current affairs?
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Download HACK for Hacker News YC Reader by Pranoy Chowdhury on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like HACK for…
2019 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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TrapCrunch▲126"Someone Made A TechCrunch Parody Site And It’s Hilarious"
2014 · hobokencityfc.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · lollicode.com · its alternatives →
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Satirical take on popular magazine-style news podcasts
2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Web site created using create-react-app
2025 · thescallion.netlify.app · its alternatives →
- 22HN
One night I was deep in a rabbit hole, reading old HN comments. I eventually ended up scraping a bunch of usernames and building a game! Please suggest any other users who you'd want to see/upstanding members of the community who deserve to be featured.
2023 · hngitblame.com · its alternatives →
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A game where you try and guess which news piece is real
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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