Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer technologies, hacking and startups. It promotes any content likely to "gratify the intellectual curiosity" of readers.
This is a curated list of FOSS tools that aim to improve the general Hacker News experience, in any shape or form.
See Contributing.
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- Contributing
- License
- CHN - HN on Console with auto classifer and recommender in reactjs style code.
MIT - circumflex - It's HN in your terminal.
AGPL-3.0 - CLHN - See HN stories.
MIT - hackernews cli - Print out the latest posts to your terminal.
no license - hackernews-TUI - A Terminal UI to browse HN.
MIT - haxor-news - Browse HN like a haxor.
Apache-2.0 - hn-cli - CLI to browse HN.
MIT - HNTerm - HN in the terminal. (Source Code)
MIT - lurker - HN terminal client.
MIT - pyhn - HN command line client.
MIT - rich-hn - A CLI reader app with rich formatting and good UX.
MIT
- Hacker Menu - Read HN from your macOS menubar. (Source Code)
MIT - HackerTray - Read HN from your system tray in Linux.
MIT - HackUp - Read HN from the desktop.
GPL-3.0 - HNReader - HN client for macOS.
Apache-2.0/MIT - toucHNews - HN news feed from the Mac Touch Bar.
Apache-2.0
- Emacs hnreader - Read HN inside Emacs.
GPL-3.0
- HackerWeb - A read-only client. (Source Code)
MIT - Materialistic - A material-design reader. (Source Code)
Apache-2.0
- HackerWeb - A read-only client. (Source Code)
MIT
- Steampipe - Query HN using SQL. (Source Code)
MPL-2.0
- vim-hackernews - Browse HN in Vim. (Source Code)
MIT
- Hacker Search - Search through "Who is Hiring?" threads. (Source Code)
no license - Hackernews Redesign - A minimal client built with Next.js and TailwindCSS. (Source Code)
MIT - Paper HN - HN front page in the style of a print newspaper. (Source Code)
MIT - readhn - A simple and fast HN Top Stories reader – using Instapaper. (Source Code)
no license
- hn-kindle - Create an ebook of the day's HN articles and send it to your Kindle.
no license
- hackernews2remarkable - Fetch top articles, pack as EPUB right in your reMarkable device.
MIT
- HackerBadge - Embeddable badges for HN posts/launches.
MIT - YComments - Automatic links to discussions. (Source Code)
MIT
- Hacker News RSS - Custom, realtime RSS feeds. (Source Code)
no license - hnapp - Faceted search engine, RSS & JSON feeds. (Source Code)
MIT
- asyncio-hn - Python (asyncio) wrapper for the HN api.
MIT - haxor - Unofficial Python wrapper for official HN API.
MIT - py-search-hn - Search HN with Python.
MIT
- already-seen - Auto-hide HN or Reddit links after you've seen them once.
MIT - hackahackernews - HN comment/viewed improvements.
GPL-3.0
- Hacker News - Show Links - Show comments that have links, and more. (Source Code)
no license - Hacker News Comment Highlighter - Highlight unread comments in threads. (Source Code)
MIT - Hacker News Comments Notifier Plugin - Get notifications on articles subscribed. (Source Code)
MIT - Hacker News Shortcut - Full keyboard navigation. (Source Code)
no license - Hacker Reads for Goodreads - Add HN comments to books on Goodreads. (Source Code)
MIT - hacker-news-reading-time - Add a reading time metric to each HN story.
no license - HackerTagger - Tag users on HN with useful metadata. (Source Code)
MIT - HN Favourite Users - Highlights your favourite users. (Source Code)
MIT - HN Keyword Filter - Filter stories using a comma separated list. (Source Code)
GPL-3.0 - HN Special - A completely new visual style and a few new features. (Source Code)
MIT - HN Stories - Sneak peak at HN.
no license - HN Unread Comments - See unread comments. (Source Code)
MIT - Newsit - Find the top voted Hackernews or Reddit discussion around the page you're looking at. (Source Code)
MIT - Refined Hacker News - Interface tweaks and features to make the HN experience better. (Source Code)
MIT - What Hacker News Says - Easily find discussions about the page you're currently browsing. (Source Code)
MIT
- Hacker News Discussion Button - Privacy-preserving extension linking to HN discussion. (Source Code)
GPL-3.0 - Hacker Reads for Goodreads - Add HN comments to books on Goodreads. (Source Code)
MIT - hacker-news-reading-time - Add a reading time metric to each HN story.
no license - HN Stories - Sneak peak at HN. (Source Code)
no license - hnlinks - Adds a sidebar to threads which collects all the external links from comments and shows if a link has been previously posted in HN. (Source Code)
GPL-3.0 - Newsit - Find the top voted Hackernews or Reddit discussion around the page you're looking at. (Source Code)
MIT - Refined Hacker News - Interface tweaks and features to make the HN experience better. (Source Code)
MIT - What Hacker News Says - Easily find discussions about the page you're currently browsing. (Source Code)
MIT
- Comments.hn - Prepend
comments.hn?q=to any website to see its HN comments. (Source Code)MIT
Contributing guidelines can be found in .github/contributing.md.
