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24 alternatives to Track the position of a post on Hacker News

See the current home page status of a post on Hacker News - tbronchain/hn-status

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Track the position of a post on Hacker News launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Metrics and tracking for HN Posts

    2020 · failflow.com · its alternatives →

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    Curated daily list of blog posts posted on Hacker News. Click to read HackerNews blogs newsletter, by Paul, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

    2020 · hnblogs.substack.com · its alternatives →

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    Newsit▲63

    Find the discussion around the page you're looking at!

    2018 · newsit.benwinding.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4MA

    2020 · hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com · its alternatives →

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    View Hacker News's real-time and historical operational status.

    2017 · hn.hund.io · its alternatives →

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    A database of top ranking Hacker News front page posts

    2020 · harishgarg.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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    Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.

    25d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN. I was surprised that there wasn't a feature here that lets you go back in time to the front page of Hacker News on a random day...so I made one. http://randomhackernews.com is a simple HTML page that navigates you to the front page of HN on a random day between today and February 19, 2007 (the oldest date I could find with content). I made this for myself, but figured others may find some interest in it.

    2024 · randomhackernews.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10HN

    I built this several months ago as I was interested to see how the titles of posts evolve/change on HN. It turns out lots of titles are edited every day (in both subjectively and objectively good and bad ways!) and I've found it interesting to see how titles have evolved. The whole thing is automated and is built around a Ruby script that pulls down the titles on the front page at a frequent interval. Any titles for specific story IDs that change get tracked and rendered out to a static HTML page hosted on Netlify. It runs by itself without incident so far. This has been on Show HN…

    2019 · hackernewstitles.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    HNwatcher▲136

    Track keywords and users on Hacker News

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    upvotetracker adalah situs berita yang menyajikan laporan terbaru dari berbagai topik dengan analisis yang cepat, jelas, dan mudah diikuti pembaca.

    2021 · upvotetracker.com · its alternatives →

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    Interact, search and follow the latest HN posts on Messenger

    2016 · messenger.com · its alternatives →

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    Shows if the current URL is being discussed on Hacker News

    2019 · jitbit.com · 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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    http://www.hnshowcase.com Moses (nnythm) and I browse Hacker News daily. Show HN posts are some of our favorite parts of HN. We wanted to create a way to browse Show HN articles, even those that might not quite make it to the front page. We created http://www.hnshowcase.com last weekend to make discovering projects posted on HN easier. It searches all "Show HN" posts and generates a thumbnail view for each of them. You can sort by submission date, points, and number of comments, and navigate with left/right or j/k keys. We used the following technologies: HN Search API, Pyramid web…

    2011 · hnshowcase.com · its alternatives →

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    Get Slack notifications for HN mentions

    2022 · hn-slack-bot.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN. I created this website. https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/ It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this. I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R ). But I…

    2025 · pj4533.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21HN

    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 →

  22. 22IM

    I noticed the who's hiring threads are very popular every month, so I decided to create a job board specifically for hacker news. You can tag jobs, search, view user's profiles and more. Tell me what you guys thing! Any feedback is appreciated.

    2013 · hnjobs.org · its alternatives →

  23. 23AT

    Hi HN, I spent a few weeks looking at the top HN posts of all time. This included exploration, clustering, creating visualizations, and zooming in on what (to me personally) seems like some of the best discussions on here. Three things in this post: 1- The interesting groups of HN posts 2- The interactive visualizations that you can explore in your browser 3- The data from this exploration -- this includes CSV of the titles as well as the text embeddings of 3,000 Ask HN articles. Blog post about this whole process here: [1] ============ 1- The interesting groups of HN posts From the…

    2022 · 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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