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24 alternatives to Stacker News
What if Hacker News let you earn money for your posts?
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Stacker News launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.
2017 · its alternatives →
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Human newsworkers covering 1,200 cryptocurrencies
2018 · 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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2021 · steez.news · its alternatives →
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2021 · instruments.digital · its alternatives →
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2019 · getpolarized.io · its alternatives →
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Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.
Jun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · cryptonewsagency.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · hn.luap.info · its alternatives →
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A database of top ranking Hacker News front page posts
2020 · its alternatives →
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Crypto Analyst▲143Daily cryptocurrency news for better investment decisions 💰
2017 · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! TLDR; - Quality News is a Hacker News client that provides additional data and insights on submissions, notably, the upvoteRate metric. - We propose that this metric could be used to improve the Hacker News ranking score. - In-depth explanation: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#readme The Hacker News ranking score is directly proportional to upvotes, which is a problem because it creates a feedback loop: higher rank leads to more upvotes leads to higher rank, and so on... → ↗ ↘ Higher Rank More Upvotes ↖ ↙ ← As a consequence, success on HN depends almost…
2023 · news.social-protocols.org · its alternatives →
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Bitcoin Price▲125Live charts + everything you need to know about crypto coins
2017 · its alternatives →
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2012 · normansoven.com · its alternatives →
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Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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