Hacker News readers and datasets

Recent window: last 5.2 months (2026-04-26 → 2026-10-02), compared with the prior 5.2 months.

media · 161 members · Data as of 2026-10-05

These products offer alternative frontends, historical datasets, content filters, and analytical tools built around Hacker News. They are primarily used by developers, researchers, and tech enthusiasts who want optimized reading interfaces or historical community data. Unlike general RSS readers or news aggregators, this cluster is specifically dedicated to enhancing and analyzing the Hacker News ecosystem.

Metrics

Stage: heating
Recent count: 94
Prior count: 61
Total count: 161
Momentum: 54.10
Attention: 0.49
Crowding: 0.43
Concentration: 0.82
Opportunity: 0.41

Opportunity components

Attention: 0.49
Low crowding: 0.57
Momentum (normalized): 0.39
Low concentration: 0.18

Source split

github: 11 (0.12)
hn: 59 (0.63)
ph: 23 (0.24)
yc: 1 (0.01)

Dominant source: hn · Divergence: 0.62

Similar themes

social media scheduling and publishing tools (0.45)
social media engagement and reporting bots (0.44)
experimental AI research and developer tools (0.41)
public record and document archives (0.39)
browser utilities and web development tools (0.37)
machine learning and search infrastructure (0.33)
ai security and agent auditing tools (0.29)
reading tools and feed aggregators (0.28)

Monthly trajectory

Members

Name	Source	Upvotes ▼	Launched
I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments	HN	822	2026-06-25
22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite	HN	730	2025-12-30
Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025	HN	613	2025-12-21
Forty.News	HN	443	2025-11-22
Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed	HN	441	2026-02-02
I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript	HN	433	2026-07-28
Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m	HN	408	2026-03-14
Threat-Intelligence-Hackers-Forums	GITHUB	371	2026-09-15
A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI	HN	265	2026-02-20
Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites	HN	256	2025-11-26
What Is Hacker News Working On?	HN	229	2025-11-06
Knock-Knock.net	HN	224	2026-02-15
HN.watch	HN	221	2026-09-28
HN Hall of Fame	HN	219	2026-07-22
Hacker News, without AI	HN	206	2026-09-11
Hacker News, Without AI	HN	197	2026-09-11
Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait	HN	188	2025-12-19
Stuxnet	HN	176	2026-09-07
State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters	HN	168	2026-05-02
Hacker Smacker	HN	148	2026-02-24
Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News	HN	140	2026-06-14
Hacker News on a train station-style flip board	HN	114	2026-06-27
Hntui	HN	112	2026-09-28
Hacker Atlas	HN	86	2026-09-25
Hackerbrief	HN	82	2026-03-16
How much of Hacker News is about AI?	HN	74	2026-08-26
WhatHappened	HN	66	2025-12-08
Bribes.fyi	HN	55	2026-08-15
Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext	HN	55	2026-08-16
Hacker News with AI stories filtered out	HN	52	2026-08-03
Bribes.fyi	HN	47	2026-07-19
I built a site that maps the web from a bounty hunter's perspective	HN	46	2026-03-23
European tech news in 6 languages	HN	46	2025-11-14
content-gate	GITHUB	40	2026-09-28
reddit-radar	GITHUB	40	2026-09-20
hermes-newswire	GITHUB	36	2026-09-13
TopicRadar	HN	36	2026-01-20
Wheesper	HN	35	2026-07-20
Viral Potential Predictor	HN	34	2025-12-28
Show HN posts p/month more than doubled in the last year	HN	34	2026-01-26
HN Companion	HN	31	2026-02-10
HNswered	HN	30	2026-04-24
The Front Page	HN	29	2026-05-24
HN Sentiment API	HN	27	2025-12-21
Slop News	HN	27	2026-02-07
I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success	HN	26	2026-05-03
Trader News	HN	25	2026-09-24
Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content	HN	24	2026-08-05
Most Penalized HN Stories	HN	19	2026-09-13
Newsmaps.io a map of how news topics are covered by different countries	HN	19	2026-04-19