Open Source Hacker News AlternativesTop News Readers & Social News like Hacker News

The best open source alternative to Hacker News is Lemmy. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Hacker News and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Hacker News are Lobsters, Mbin, Steemit and Tildes.

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  1. Lemmy icon
     201 likes

    Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are...

    78 Lemmy alternatives

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  2. Lobsters icon
     32 likes

    Lobsters is a technology-focused link-aggregation site. The site is driven by Ruby on Rails with the source code being freely available for those seeking to create a site similar to Reddit or Hackernews.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Ruby on Rails
     
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  3. Steemit icon
     106 likes

    A non-censored social platform where users are incentivized to contribute and curate content. The users decide what is valuable by voting, and content regarded valuable is rewarded with money.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  4. Tildes icon
     19 likes

    A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  5. WikiSpooks.com icon
     28 likes

    WikiSpooks is a global alternative encyclopedia on politics, spy craft, deep state intelligence, and conspiracies, free of corporate influence, partisan politics, or government propaganda for historians and truth-seekers to read, edit, and share.

    78 WikiSpooks.com alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  6. Postmill icon
     3 likes

    Postmill is a free, web-based, social link aggregator with voting and threaded comments. It is built on the Symfony framework. Used to host raddle.me.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Zlib)

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. SoylentNews icon
     4 likes

    Community-driven news site aggregating technology, science, and general interest articles, offering user submissions, threaded discussions, comment voting, open participation, and article archives for a global audience with a strong emphasis on moderation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  8. teddit icon
     9 likes

    A free and open source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy. Inspired by the Nitter project.

    20 teddit alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
  9. Raddle icon
     24 likes

    Unsatisfied with the few link sharing communities that were available and their proprietary, untransparent and non-secure nature, ziq made the original raddle.me (then known as raddit.me) with Wordpress, but it had a lot of limitations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  10. Hackertab.dev icon
     2 likes

    Hackertab.dev, a handy extension to help developers stay up-to-date with the latest tech happenings. It’s fully customizable, for frontend, backend, full-stack, mobile, data scientists… bref, for all developers.

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    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • Firefox
     
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