Awesome-Hackernews
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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You may also want to visit awesome-hacker-news, a complementary list which is not focused on FOSS.
- List
- Contributing
Clients
CLI
- CLHN - Command Line application to see Hacker News stories.
no license
- hackernews cli - A command line tool to print out the latest posts on Hacker News to your terminal.
no license
- haxor-news - Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI).
Apache-2.0
- hn-cli - CLI to browse Hacker News.
MIT
- pyhn - Hacker news command line client.
MIT
Desktop
- Hacker Menu - Read Hacker News from your macOS menubar. (Source Code)
MIT
- HackUp - Read Hacker News from the desktop.
GPL-3.0
SQL
- Steampipe - Query Hacker News using SQL. (Source Code)
MPL-2.0
Embeddables
- YComments - Automatic links to Hacker News discussions. (Source Code)
MIT
Feeds
- Hacker News RSS - Custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News. (Source Code)
no license
Libraries
Python
- asyncio-hn - Python (asyncio) wrapper for hackernews api.
MIT
Web Extensions
Chrome
- Hacker News Comment Highlighter - Chrome extension for highlighting unread comments in Hacker News threads. (Source Code)
MIT
- Hacker News Comments Notifier Plugin - HN plugin to get notifications on articles subscribed. (Source Code)
MIT
- Hackercut - A Chrome extension that powers full keyboard navigation of Hacker News. (Source Code)
no license
- HN Favourite Users - Highlights your favourite users on Hacker News. (Source Code)
MIT
- HN Special - HN Special is a Chrome extension that packs a completely new visual style for Hacker News and a few new features. (Source Code)
MIT
- HN Unread Comments - A Google Chrome extension that shows unread comments on Hacker News. (Source Code)
MIT
- Newsit - Find the top voted Hackernews or Reddit discussion around the page you're looking at. (Source Code)
MIT
- What Hacker News Says - Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. (Source Code)
MIT
Firefox
- Hacker News Discussion Button - Privacy-preserving Firefox extension linking to Hacker News discussion. (Source Code)
GPL-3.0
- Newsit - Find the top voted Hackernews or Reddit discussion around the page you're looking at. (Source Code)
MIT
- What Hacker News Says - Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. (Source Code)
MIT
Contributing
Contributing guidelines can be found in .github/contributing.md.