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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 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 1 indie · 5 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 21Hackerbrief0★unknownliveCurates a daily digest of top Hacker News front-page stories for readers who want tech news at a glance.
  2. 22HackrNews0★unknownliveindieWeb app that presents HackerNews stories and tech updates in a redesigned, cross-platform interface for reading news.
  3. 23hacknio0★unknownlivehobbyWeb app that provides an alternative Hacker News client with extra features for browsing tech news.
  4. 24Hacker News0★unknownlivehand-codedhobbyHacker News clone that presents tech news links with discussions, allowing users to browse and comment.
  5. 25HackerVoice - Deep dive into top tech news0★unknownliveDelivers in-depth analysis and commentary on top technology news stories sourced from Hacker News.
  6. 26Hacker News Top Charts - 2022-09-10 to 2022-09-170★unknownlivehobbyWeb app that lists the top Hacker News posts for a week, ranking popular tech links and discussions.
  7. 27HC Reader0★unknownliveReader app that displays Hacker News stories and discussion threads for browsing tech and startup news.
  8. 28Top Hacker News Book Recommendations in All Categories (all time) | Hacker News Books0★unknownliveWeb app that aggregates and ranks book recommendations from Hacker News comments, showing discussion counts and categories for discovery.
  9. 29Evidence0★unknownliveWeb app that analyzes Hacker News discussions and surfaces insights about trending topics and user activity.

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.