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 News Reader 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 Android Tablet apps. The best Hacker News alternative is Reddit, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Hacker News are Lemmy, Lobsters, Mbin and SaidIt.net.

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  1. Stripped down news feed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
  2. Failory icon
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    Failory is a community where failed startup owners come to tell their failure stories and the mistakes they committed so that future entrepreneurs can learn from them and don’t make the same errors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. entre news icon
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    Human curated collection of the best news for entrepreneurs, every day - about entrepreneurship, small businesses and startups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
  4. Lambda the Ultimate is a community blogging website about programming languages, their theory and their research created in 2000 by Ehud Lamm.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. Depvana icon
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    Depvana. The place to create and explore topics in a structured way. You decide how deep the rabbit hole goes. Visit a topic and post about anything at all. No login is required.

    35 Depvana alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. ForumPromotion.com; a bookmarking & social networking curation hub, but also the easiest way to discover new and interesting forums across the Web. Anyone can submit, vote up/down, and comment on links. The most trusted forum promotion platform & topic curation community.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
  7. Newzible icon
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    Web content aggregator that brings in the top content only from news, blogs, e-zines, and reddit and showcases it in a minimalistic fullscreen UI with no ads and no paywalls.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. News Kit icon
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    News Kit is a new news aggregator model. You design your own news feed. You can read each news source separately, or you can collect your own news feed from different sources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  9. hey.cafe icon
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    Hey.Café is a new social network designed to be easy to use. When you join you can create new conversations and join communities that we call cafés based on your interests, and it's free to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  10. A Reddit-inspired platform for gamers with a karma system, offering post trends and comment popularity. Discuss games, memes, and news while enjoying upvotes, downvotes, user subscriptions, and free speech. Customize feeds and explore trending topics with user-generated content.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. Plozee icon
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    Plozee is a site where you can read and share interesting stories and experiences.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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