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CLUSTER NEWS-HACKER-STORIES · 29 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-03-04

Hacker News reader apps

This cluster consists of Hacker News readers, clients, and aggregators that repackage tech news and discussions through alternative web, mobile, and desktop interfaces. The dated entries show a sparse, irregular timeline with single launches spread across 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2025, with no clear growth pattern before the index began. Traction is minimal across the board, with the top activity signals all at zero stars, indicating an early-stage, fragmented space.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2015: 2MAR 2025: 1AUG 2026: 16SEP 2026: 7OCT 2026: 3
JAN 2015OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 4 hand-coded · 15 unlabelled

Operator · 8 hobby · 2 commercial · 10 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01protons-hn1★2 daysliveWeb app that presents Hacker News stories and comments through an alternative, redesigned interface.
  2. 02hackernews-mention-intelligence0★9 days—commercialPaid service that tracks Hacker News discussions for brand, product, and keyword mentions and reports new threads and buzz momentum.
  3. 03hn-industry-digest0★5 days—hand-codedhobbyWeb app that displays the top five Hacker News stories with AI-generated summaries for a chosen industry.
  4. 04hn-search0★19 daysliveSearch engine for Hacker News that indexes millions of stories and comments with fast full-text and ranking.
  5. 05hnews0★1 molivehand-codedhobbyLightweight web reader for Hacker News that serves cached top stories without JavaScript or tracking.
  6. 06tech-news-app0★1 mo—hobbyMobile app that aggregates tech news from RSS feeds and Hacker News and generates AI-written summaries for each article.
  7. 07hacker-news0★1 mo—hobbyWeb app that displays Hacker News stories and comments, built with Nuxt.
  8. 08hacker-news-dev0★25 daysliveWeb app for browsing Hacker News submissions and comments.
  9. 09Cyber Security News & Alerts0★1 molivecommercialCyber security news app that aggregates and prioritizes vulnerability, ransomware, and attack stories from many sources, with customizable notifications and community discussion.
  10. 10newhackernews0★1 yrabandonedliveai-builthobbyWeb app for browsing Hacker News stories and comments through a custom interface.
  11. 11Hacker news app - All the Hacking news , firewalls technology , Tech news reader and anti virus alerts0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedNews reader app that aggregates hacking, firewall, and technology news with customizable themes, offline reading, and article sharing.
  12. 12Top Stories - Page 10★unknownliveWeb app that presents top Hacker News stories through an alternative reader interface for technology news and discussion followers.
  13. 13Hacker News0★unknownlivehand-codedhobbyA web app that displays tech news with a redesigned user interface as an alternative to Hacker News.
  14. 14NewsNook0★unknownliveA news reader that restructures Hacker News discussions into nested threads for easier browsing by readers.
  15. 15hackernews-semafor-duhw.vercel.app0★unknownliveWeb app that gives a signal-based overview of Hacker News posts to help readers find noteworthy content.
  16. 16PlaiHn0★unknownliveWeb app that provides a simple interface for reading Hacker News.
  17. 17Hacker News0★unknownlivehobbyWeb app that displays Hacker News stories and comments in a more readable format.
  18. 18Hacker News | Top Stories0★unknownliveWeb app that displays top trending stories and headlines aggregated from the Hacker News community.
  19. 19NewsNook0★unknownlivehobbyWeb app that reorganizes Hacker News discussion threads into nested comment views for easier reading and following conversations.
  20. 20HackerNews Deck0★unknownliveWeb app that presents HackerNews stories and comments in a multi-column dashboard layout for browsing tech news.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.