Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
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I thought it would be fun to browse HN as if it were a newspaper. The site updates once an hour. Enjoy!
HN · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 475 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: news aggregation platforms · 230 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▲ +20% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The site pulls Hacker News through its public API on a schedule and re-renders it in a newspaper layout. That is simple scraping, templating, and a cron job.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: rnn.news, headlinegator.com, digestivo, NYTimes, Hacker News
Concerns raised: site blocked for some users, NYTimes paywall hit, similar idea already exists
Feature requests: rendered PDF version for e-ink, games and AI section, NYTimes-style comment section
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 162 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 163 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 362 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker Times · hn · 2026-06-28 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- HN Hall of Fame · hn · 2026-07-22 · 219 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- The Daily Compile · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News · hn · 2026-06-14 · 140 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- 20 years of Hacker News discussions, clustered and visualized · hn · 2026-03-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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