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Products that do what Search the text of articles submitted to HN, with live updating does

1. 1HU
   HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories▲644

   I feel like it was inevitable, with the recent buzz around NotebookLM. I'm just surprised that it hasn't been done yet.

   2024 · hnup.date

2. 2
   HN Search (Experimental)▲112

   A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

   2015

3. 3SI
   Search in HN Content▲13

   2015 · search.nagrgtr.com

4. 4HO
   Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN▲442

   2020 · hndex.org

5. 5SP
   Summarizing popular HN articles▲19

   2011 · skimthat.com

6. 6HT
   hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting▲109

   2016 · hnlive.tk

7. 7WI
   When is good time to submit a story on HN?▲269

   2011 · hnpickup.appspot.com

8. 8QS
   Quickly scan HN for new articles▲62

   I have a dedicated HN tab that I come back to and reload multiple times a day to see whats new and hot. I wrote a Chrome Extension to: - quickly scan new articles since my last reload - quickly scan highly discussed articles - open actual articles and discussions in a new tab This links to the source code. The chrome extension is linked at the bottom of the github page. Note: - This extension only operates on the HN front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/news) - The first time you reload the HN front page after installing the extension all articles will get highlighted.

   2024 · github.com

9. 9CN
   Curated Newsletter of Show HNs▲59

   2013 · weekendupdate.me

10. 10UA
    Updating archive of HN's /newest, with pre-rendering of the URLs▲32

    2013 · hnflood.com

11. 11AD
    A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News▲193

    We (Nick, Dens, Denzell, Fede, Drew, Aaryan, and Daniel) have been building HN Discovery, a discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News, in our spare time for the past 6 months and are excited to show it! It adds the following features relative to the existing keyword search interface and preserves the existing ones: - no-JS version (hnnojs.trieve.ai) - site:{required_site} and site:{negated-site} filters - public analytics - LLM generated query suggestions based on random stories - recommendations - dense vector semantic search - SPLADE fulltext search - RAG AI chat - order by…

    2024 · hn.trieve.ai

12. 12IM
    I made a search engine for Hacker News▲211

    I love HN but always felt the search with algolia is okay but does have some limitations. Since I work at Vectara I decided to try and create a better search for HN. It's based on data from roughly the last 6 months of HN stories and comments. Would love to hear feedback and how useful this is relative to the existing search.

    2024 · hackernews.demo.vectara.com

13. 13
    Hazumi News 3.0▲99

    Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News

    2025

14. 14NS
    News Searching API▲40

    2020 · datanews.io

15. 15SW
    See what words are trending on HN▲29

    2013 · hackernewstrends.herokuapp.com

16. 16SH
    Search HN for interesting comment sections▲60

    I built this tool to help me find interesting discussions on Hacker News. I love reading HN discussions almost more than the articles themselves. However, I found that full text search, although highly performant, is not always good at surfacing interesting discussions on a certain topic -- especially if you don't know what to search for exactly. I built this by scraping the most recent ~6 million posts (that's about 2 years of history) and putting the resulting posts and their vector embeddings into Postgres. Let me know what could be improved, and if you'd like a more detailed writeup of…

    2024 · searchhacker.news

17. 17HR
    hackernews.roundtable.audio turns HN posts into live audio discussions▲109

    2021 · hackernews.roundtable.audio

18. 18QA
    Q&A for HN users▲142

    2012 · askolo.com

19. 19SH
    Search HN by keywords, user, score, Read online, on mobile or RSS▲10

    2014 · hnapp.com

20. 20SS
    Scroll – Search or share articles with clean view▲28

    2014 · getscroll.com

21. 21HT
    HN Text Analytics – Check what’s trending on Hacker News▲16

    2018 · hn.textalytics.io

22. 221T
    10HN – Top articles from HN served every morning and every evening▲29

    2015 · top10.pancik.com

23. 23HR
    HN reader that filters out COV**-19 and Coronavir** articles▲52

    2020 · gabrielsroka.github.io

24. 24HN
    HAgnostic News – HN Reader for the Web and React Native App (Android/iOS)▲6

    2016 · github.com

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