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24 alternatives to The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in
Read all 85 Federalist Papers in an inviting period newspaper setting, with a clear modern reader and brief companion notes.
The Federalist Papers is a digital archive that presents the classic political essays in their original 1787 newspaper format. Users can read the arguments for ratifying the U.S. Constitution as they appeared in… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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The Paper▲238News from 100+ years ago, reproduced and delivered via email
2018 · papernewsletter.com · its alternatives →
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SNEWPapers▲126Hello HN, over the past 7 months I've spent nearly 3,000 hours on building SNEWPAPERS, the first historical newpaper archive with full-text extractions, nearly perfect OCR, a vast categorization taxonomy and of course with semantic and agentic search capabilities. Problem: I wanted to search through newspaper archives, but when I tried every service only lets you search for keywords and dates, and gives you back raw images of the papers, and too many of them with no context. A sea of noise. Solution: I taught machines how to read the newspapers and so far I've extracted the content from >…
Apr 2026 · snewpapers.com · its alternatives →
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Concise history of how the US Constitution came into being.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Unim.Press is a Reddit reader in the style of a certain classic metropolitan newspaper
2020 · unim.press · its alternatives →
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Print Graph Paper, College Ruled, or other types of paper!
2014 · printablepaper.net · its alternatives →
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Facebook Paper▲176Explore stories from friends and the world around you
2014 · facebook.com · its alternatives →
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A pocket Constitution written entirely in brand logos 📃
2019 · its alternatives →
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heyo! Explainpaper lets you upload a research paper PDF. If you don't understand a formula or sentence, just highlight it and the tool explains it for you I built this a few weeks ago to help me read a neuroscience paper, and it works pretty well! I didn't fine-tune GPT-3, but I do take a lot of context from the paper and feed that into the prompt (not the whole paper). Ppl have uploaded AI, biology, economics, philosophy papers and even law documents. Works in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French and more as well!
2022 · explainpaper.com · its alternatives →
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The first newspaper that is entirely run by AI
2023 · thegenerativepress.com · its alternatives →
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Open Paper▲289Hi HN! Open Paper allows you to annotate and understand your research papers with an AI copilot. I wanted a paper-reading assistant that let met actually dig into papers in-place while benefiting from AI tooling. When it comes to studying, I'm not a fan of the typical chat interfaces that obfuscate uploaded files and turn them into black box 'content'. Hence, I've implemented a split-pane view. To mitigate the risk of hallucinations, all AI responses come with grounded citations that refer back to the source material in-flow. Some feature highlights: - Actually read your papers in one place…
2025 · openpaper.ai · its alternatives →
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Govbase tracks every bill, executive order, and federal regulation from official sources (Congress.gov, Federal Register, White House). An AI pipeline breaks each one down into plain-language summaries and shows who it impacts by demographic group. It also ties each policy directly to bias-rated news coverage and politician social posts on X, Bluesky, and Truth Social. You can follow a single bill from the official text to how media frames it to what your representatives are saying about it. Free on web, iOS, and Android. https://govbase.com I'd love feedback from the community,…
Mar 2026 · govbase.com · its alternatives →
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periodical▲101Like Goodreads and The New York Times had a baby
2021 · periodical.cool · its alternatives →
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Paperback▲151Simpler and tidier alternative to wiki pages
2021 · paperbackhq.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · trumpdata.org · its alternatives →
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Pink Paper▲93The golden standard for decentralized publishing
2023 · pinkpaper.xyz · its alternatives →
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165 years of journalism, now available online
2022 · theatlantic.com · its alternatives →
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The Electoral College, National Popular Vote, & The Election
2016 · legaltalknetwork.com · its alternatives →
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Paper 4.0▲181Arrange sketches and notes in your online journal
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Fact-first news delivered once a day by text (yes, text)
2020 · thenewpaper.co · its alternatives →
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The American history textbook that will blow your mind
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Associated Press's ebook/audio series on the 13 Colonies 🇺🇸
2018 · realm.fm · its alternatives →
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