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24 alternatives to The users behind Hacker News
The Users Behind Hacker News is a directory that profiles the people active in the Hacker News community. Launched in 2011, the site helps visitors discover who participates in discussions on Hacker News and learn more… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The users behind Hacker News launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
- 2RL
2019 · collectoral.com · its alternatives →
- 3IM
2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →
- 4HC
There's been lots of discussion recently about finding other HNers to talk to / bounce ideas off / work with, some Google spreadsheets were set up to share details but they were soon vandalised. I had a spare afternoon yesterday (which turned into a long day) and here's the result: http://www.hackernewsers.com/ It's only open to people with HN accounts, it lets you post your biography, location, skills etc. Anyway, I hope you like it and find it useful.
2010 · hackernewsers.com · its alternatives →
- 5HN
2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →
- 6HN
2020 · eliot-jones.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I just published https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city. How it works? Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 1. Fill the form: username, city+country 2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description. 3. Click "Add me on the map" Optionnaly (it's recommended!) you can add links to your socials as well as some tags to showcase your interests. Why does it exist? I created this because, despite its harsh reputation on the internet, I love the HN community. I…
2024 · its alternatives →
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2013 · hn-button.com · its alternatives →
- 9LB
2011 · hnlike.com · its alternatives →
- 10FT
2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →
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Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
- 12BH
2014 · berlinhackernews.com · its alternatives →
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List of Public Blogs of Hacker News users. Contribute to outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 14HN
2014 · hilapeleg.io · its alternatives →
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2021 · hakaran.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News API▲317Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)
2014 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
24d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →
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I made a little website with a server that collects only HN submissions with > 500 upvotes chronologically. https://hn.moritz.pm/ It's quite simple because I wanted to learn from the project. But I think it's useful, to get a summary of what was important over the last days. The UI is almost identical to the HN frontpage, you can click on the comments to view the thread and on the username to see the profile. The rest of the cards takes you to the submitted URL.
2024 · hn.moritz.pm · its alternatives →
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2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hacker News Without News: A curated newsletter of interesting things.
2023 · hn.build-your-own.org · its alternatives →
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Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.
Jun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · blog.monkeylearn.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (https://hackersearch.net), a semantic search engine for Hacker News. Type a keyword or a description of what you're interested in, and you'll get top links from HN surfaced to you along with brief summaries. Unlike HN's otherwise very valuable search feature, Hacker Search doesn't require you to get your keywords exactly right. That's achieved by leveraging OpenAI's latest embedding models alongside more traditional indexes extracted from the scraped and cleaned up contents of the links. I think there are many more interesting things…
2024 · hackersearch.net · its alternatives →
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