Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Web Push Notifications for Hacker News
I built a little tool that lets you subscribe to posts, comments and users and get notified when they change. It needs an account on val.town, but that's about it. Also note, for top stories it can get quite chaotic.
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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2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · hackernews.onesignal.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.
Jun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · goroost.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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Did you want to know topics of the news or popularity of posts? "Hacker News Hack" helps you to find news based on some categories and importance or popularity. It tagged news with 9 categories with a natural language processing technology and supervised learning for categorizing news. It also calculates a speed of number of comments in each posts as popularity based on term, that is 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year.
2014 · newshack.io · its alternatives →
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2016 · hnreplies.com · its alternatives →
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Hi yall! I've been using hacker news for a while but one of the things I started wanting recently was the ability to have alerts for any stories I post. The thing that pushed me over the edge was Hackclub's shipwrecked https://shipwrecked.hackclub.com/ (hackathon in the boston bay for anyone that can make 4 projects over the summer and get at least one of them to go viral). One of the options for "going viral" was to get to the front page of hacker news but I was constantly scared that I would miss it getting on there lol so I whipped up a quick slackbot to send alerts to a…
2025 · hn.dunkirk.sh · 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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Highlight new comments, mute users & tweak UI on Hacker News
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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HN Follow lets you follow authors on Hacker News, and get email notifications when they post. It was inspired by alerthn.com and hnreplies.com. The app was built in an experimental style on Val Town. We’re trying to create a new web primitive that you can: 1. write like a function 2. run like a script 3. fork like a repo 4. install like an app This is our 5th iteration of this same “HN Follow” app. We launched the 3rd version here on Hacker News six months ago[1], but it was very kindly removed from the front page by dang in favor of us launching Val Town itself first, which we did in…
2023 · val.town · its alternatives →
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2011 · hackerstream.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · hacker-news-analytics.christianfei.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm excited to share a tool I've been working on - a native Hacker News reader built with Rust and egui. Here's a screenshot: https://github.com/haojiang99/hacker_news_reader/blob/main/s.... As a daily HN reader, I've always struggled with keeping track of interesting posts I want to read later. Browser tabs pile up, bookmarks get forgotten, and I lose track of what I've already read. I needed a way to: 1. Browse HN efficiently (across all sections - hot, new, show, ask, jobs, best) 2. Quickly mark posts as "todo" for later reading 3. Mark posts as…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on and off on a Chrome Extension for Hacker News, the extension focusses on improved usability rather than design. I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back to regular Hacker News. Give it a try, features include: - Improved readability - Quick inline replies from comments page - Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames - Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user - Endless scrolling - Collapsible comment threads - Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer Forks, improvements and comments…
2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · eliot-jones.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · collectoral.com · its alternatives →
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The best ideas are both simple and outlandish.
2012 · normansoven.com · its alternatives →
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Newsit▲63Find the discussion around the page you're looking at!
2018 · newsit.benwinding.com · its alternatives →
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