Hacker Times
HN Reader
Details
- External ID
- 48706219
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hacker Times
- Website domain
- hntrends.net
- Launched
- June 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5935792349726776
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hacker news reader
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #46 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 234 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- HN Buffer · hn · 2025-11-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- ReadHn · hn · 2025-12-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HackLens · hn · 2026-01-03 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- 20 years of Hacker News discussions, clustered and visualized · hn · 2026-03-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- HN Glance · hn · 2026-07-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Hntui · hn · 2026-09-28 · 111 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- HN Hall of Fame · hn · 2026-07-22 · 219 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.