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. Service to redirect to HN thread launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1LH
   Live HN with SocketIO+Redis▲5

   2016 · hnlive.xyz · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Get latest replies to an HN user▲42

   Hi HN, I hacked a simple service for gathering HN replies and organizing them by the parent's username. The main idea is to be able to efficiently get the latest replies to an HN user. For example, you can use this service to send yourself notifications when some replies to you on HN. The service queries the official HN API and can be self-hosted. It is basically ~30 lines of Bash script. I made this mostly for educational purposes -- thought you might find it useful for something. Cheers! Edit: for example, here are the latest replies to me [0]. It includes only recent replies, since I…

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3AS
   A simple extension to auto refresh HN via AJAX▲5

   2013 · blog.johnnygannon.net · its alternatives →

4. 4HL
   Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader▲102

   2015 · 2ton.com.au · its alternatives →

5. 5
   HN Offline – HN client for reading comments▲6

   2020 · hn.byroni.us · its alternatives →

6. 6
   A desktop HN reader client in Rust/egui▲9

   A little toy HN client for the desktop that I've been playing around with this week.

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7HD
   HN Document Repository▲5

   2016 · udocz.com · its alternatives →

8. 8RH
   Reddit + HN Keyword tracker▲8

   2014 · karmalytics.co · its alternatives →

9. 9HF
   HN Firehose▲7

   Pulling the latest comments and submissions from the HN API every 30 seconds.

   2024 · shithnsays.pages.dev · its alternatives →

10. 10SH
    Show HN▲9

    H

    2024 · labs.refuel.ai · its alternatives →

11. 11TY
    Track your HN post▲9

    2012 · s.myezapp.com · its alternatives →

12. 12IM
    I made a URL shortener for HN▲8

    2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Embed Reddit/HN threads on your website▲9

    Embed reddit and HackerNews comments on your website - tgallant/embedd

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    HN Overload (30 minute hack)▲6

    2014 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

15. 15BT
    Best time for submitting to HN▲5

    2017 · research.patico.pro · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Web worker and polling exp / HN client app▲6

    demo and src inside newstories will be loaded in web worker polling for comments refresh in main thread configurable worker cache

    2024 · pravosleva.pro · its alternatives →

17. 17HS
    HN-Stats▲9

    2015 · newscombinator.com · its alternatives →

18. 18TO
    Timeline of a HN Submission▲5

    2023 · luke.lol · its alternatives →

19. 19PA
    Page and crawler that show flagged HN submissions only▲5

    2021 · mosermichael.github.io · its alternatives →

20. 20TU
    The user agents crawling HN today▲5

    May 2026 · ai.realhackers.org · its alternatives →

21. 21RC
    Reddit command line app▲5

    2014 · dendory.net · its alternatives →

22. 22RT
    Rebound – turn webhook requests into REST calls▲8

    2015 · reboundx.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

23. 23AP
    a portal to view HN Polls(prototype)▲5

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

24. 24
    HTTP Event Sources: backend components for processing HTTP requests▲8

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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