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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• 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

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• 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

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• Emacs hnreader - Read HN inside Emacs. GPL-3.0

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• HackerWeb - A read-only client. (Source Code) MIT
• Materialistic - A material-design reader. (Source Code) Apache-2.0

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• HackerWeb - A read-only client. (Source Code) MIT

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• Steampipe - Query HN using SQL. (Source Code) MPL-2.0

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• vim-hackernews - Browse HN in Vim. (Source Code) MIT

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• 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

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• hn-kindle - Create an ebook of the day's HN articles and send it to your Kindle. no license

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• hackernews2remarkable - Fetch top articles, pack as EPUB right in your reMarkable device. MIT

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• HackerBadge - Embeddable badges for HN posts/launches. MIT
• YComments - Automatic links to discussions. (Source Code) MIT

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• Hacker News RSS - Custom, realtime RSS feeds. (Source Code) no license
• hnapp - Faceted search engine, RSS & JSON feeds. (Source Code) MIT

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• 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

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• already-seen - Auto-hide HN or Reddit links after you've seen them once. MIT
• hackahackernews - HN comment/viewed improvements. GPL-3.0

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.