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.

1. 1
   hn.▲78

   Yet another client to browse Hacker News

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   HNwatcher▲136

   Track keywords and users on Hacker News

   2014 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   HN Search (Experimental)▲112

   A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   HN Cards▲142

   Stay on top of Hacker News, Tinder-style

   2014 · lollicode.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   HN Follow▲69

   Follow your friends on Hacker News

   2014 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Slack-HN▲99

   Read Hacker News right from Slack

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Hacker News Search▲92

   a faster hnsearch

   2014 · hn.algolia.com · its alternatives →

8. 8HR
   HN4D: Recent Hacker News Front Page Activity▲7

   2012 · hn4d.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   HN Offline – HN client for reading comments▲6

   2020 · hn.byroni.us · its alternatives →

10. 10HC
    HN comments UI experiment▲6

    2017 · hn-level-based-view.gomix.me · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Nobot▲8

    Human over IP

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12LI
    LambdaNews.io, an HN client built with Vue▲9

    2018 · lambdanews.io · its alternatives →

13. 13AH
    A Hacker News for Marketers▲5

    2012 · inbound.org · its alternatives →

14. 14HN
    Hacker News channel on Denso (Videos from popular posts on HN)▲9

    We're still in private beta but would love to give more invites and get feedback.

    2011 · its alternatives →

15. 15HR
    HN Recommends – Curated recommendations from Hacker News▲9

    2018 · hnrecommends.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Hacker News Client

    Realtime HN Client

    2015 · hnclient.weebly.com · its alternatives →

17. 17WT
    We Turned the HN FAQs into an FAQ-Bot▲9

    2020 · dialogbar.com · its alternatives →

18. 18HS
    HN-Stats▲9

    2015 · newscombinator.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Solve the information overflow problem with an HN curation bot▲6

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    HN Live▲5

    live updating version of hacker hews

    2016 · its alternatives →

21. 21HW
    HN Who's Hiring – Better display, log in and save jobs▲10

    2015 · hnwhoshiring.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

22. 22WP
    Weekend project - app that shows the latest HN "Who's hiring?" thread▲11

    2011 · hnhiring.com · its alternatives →

23. 23HN
    Hacker News TLDR▲7

    2014 · hn-tldr.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

24. 24HD
    Hackers Daily – Get all Show HN posts emailed to you daily▲5

    2014 · hackersdaily.com · its alternatives →

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