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
  • Clients
    • CLI
    • Desktop
  • Embeddables
  • Feeds
  • Libraries
    • Python
  • Web Extensions
    • Chrome
    • Firefox
• 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.