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24 alternatives to Web worker and polling exp / HN client app
demo and src inside newstories will be loaded in web worker polling for comments refresh in main thread configurable worker cache
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Web worker and polling exp / HN client app launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1HR
2016 · hnreplies.com · its alternatives →
- 2IR
Happy Holidays! Today I am delighted to announce the first release of H2O, version 0.9.0; this is a christmas gift from me. github.com/h...
2014 · blog.kazuhooku.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Pulse▲90Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted
Mar 2026 · demo.pulse.kartikeybhardwaj.com · its alternatives →
- 6IM
Primarily built this to learn how NextJS works and also a bit about Tailwind CSS. Also has request caching using the WebCache API + expiration which is quite a hacky implementation. Let me know what you think! Source is at https://github.com/say4n/hn, pull requests welcome!
2023 · hn.sayan.page · its alternatives →
- 7EH
2016 · comments.network · its alternatives →
- 8IM
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 →
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Little chrome extension I made to collapse comments on HN, feel free to use it if you want.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I figured, "what better way to look at a list of (hopefully) inspiring projects?" The upvotes work and are globally synced.
2024 · guycombinator.net · its alternatives →
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React-powered Hacker News client. Contribute to insin/react-hn development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Hacker News client built with Angular CLI, RxJS and Webpack
2016 · angular2-hn.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News comments sidebar bookmarklet. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
- 16HN
Daily original takes and guides.
2011 · hnnotify.com · its alternatives →
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A fast, keyboard-friendly Hacker News client. Browse Top, New, Show HN, Ask HN, and jobs, read comment threads, and sign in to vote, comment, and submit.
2019 · hn.matthewblode.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Eurker▲16Hi HN, I built an uptime monitoring tool similar to other services, but more lightweight, easier to set up, and focused on developer flexibility. It includes all the essential features — keyword assertions, custom HTTP methods, retries, alerts via SMS/Email/Slack/Webhooks — with a clean JSON config system for advanced setups. I originally made it last month to learn more about Firebase Cloud Functions and Cloud Run, and to build something real for my portfolio. It turned out to be genuinely useful, so I’ve decided to share it. Would love your feedback – especially from devs…
2025 · eurker.com · its alternatives →
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I scraped every Show HN from the last 12 months (41,301 posts) plus the full comment tree of every launch with 10+ comments, ~100k comment timestamps, all from the Algolia HN API. The median launch gets 2 points and 0 comments. For launches that do get traction, half the comments they'll ever get arrive within 7.2 hours and 90% within 26, and the top decile decays on the same clock as everyone else. Vote timestamps aren't public, so comment timing is the attention proxy; caveats are in the post. Everything reproduces from the repo with one command…
Jul 2026 · jonno.nz · its alternatives →
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2013 · webhookinbox.com · its alternatives →
- 22UA
2013 · hnflood.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy - jiangwenyuan/nuster
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →