Hacker News Alternatives

Hacker News is described as 'Social news website that caters to programmers and entrepreneurs, delivering content related to computer science and entrepreneurship' and is a very popular Social News in the news & books category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Hacker News, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Self-Hosted and Google Chrome apps. The best Hacker News alternative is Lemmy, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Hacker News are Reddit, Lobsters, Mbin and Steemit.

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  1. Hacker News client, designed for both phones & tablets, with optimized speed & network. Source : F-droid

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  2. LinkLonk icon
     3 likes

    Submit and discover interesting links by connecting to other users that share your interests. It's like Pinterest for articles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. Moopes icon
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    A social app built around smaller groups and better conversations. You swipe up and down to find rooms that you want to join.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • iPhone
    • Android
     
  4. Den.social icon
     3 likes

    den.social is a decentralized reddit-like community, where people can post inside "Lairs" akin to subreddits, and govern each lairs via votes.

    136 Den.social alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  5. Upvoto icon
     3 likes

    A link aggregator that respects your freedom of speech, opinion and expression. No advertising or analytics code or trackers. No special priority to any particular communities, groups or individuals. No building of reputation is necessary to start your first first community.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. demcra icon
     7 likes

    The democratic reddit alternative.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  7. Nonio icon
     2 likes

    Nonio is a Reddit-like platform that gives directly back to content creators. Nonio takes a small portion of subscription costs to run the service and anything over that is split evenly between everything users upvote that month.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. RockingPage icon
     2 likes

    the most trending websites all over the internet based on popularity (Alexa Rank), social reach (Facebook Shares) and Authority (referring domains).

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9.  3 likes

    Echo JS is a community-driven news site entirely focused on JavaScript development, HTML5, and front-end news.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  10. StackTrender icon
     4 likes

    Check curated articles from the web and follow what's trending in your favorite programming technologies: #php #laravel #linux #vuejs #reacts #nodejs #java #python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. Mainchan icon
     4 likes

    Mainchan is a content aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. Registered members submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, videos, and polls, which are then voted up or down by other members.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  12. diff.blog icon
     5 likes

    Aggregator of engineering and developer blogs.

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    • Free
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    • Online
     
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