Hacker Times
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This has been a play project for a little while, trying to build an interface that's comfortable to read on any device. It's a bit of a mashup of a Pocket-like interface, digital newspaper and Hacker News.
HN · launched Jun 28, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 41%) · 0 views
Niche: news aggregation platforms · 244 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -54% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 244 launches in news aggregation platforms →
Could you build this?
Yes Hacker Times is a client-side reader for Hacker News consuming the public Hacker News Firebase/Algolia APIs with a custom newspaper-style UI.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Octal
Feature requests: Show more / pagination for older articles, Simple font selector (mono, serif, sans)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #63 of 124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 234 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-03 · 475 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- HN Buffer · hn · 2025-11-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- The Daily Compile · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- ReadHn · hn · 2025-12-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HackLens · hn · 2026-01-03 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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