Hacker News AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Tech News Sites

The best Tech News alternative to Hacker News is Lobsters, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Hacker News and nine of them are Tech News Sites so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Tech News Site alternatives to Hacker News are Slashdot, SoylentNews, Indie Hackers and daily.dev.

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  1. 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.

    41 Lobsters alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Ruby on Rails
     
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    Lobsters vs Hacker News Comments
    Rodney42
    Positive
    1

    Similar topics, similar user interface.

    Guest
    Positive
    -1

    Sourced data about real world topics. to heavily programming/tech to quite compare with YC, but seems like a higher IQ base than most of these other suggestions.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Lobsters is Free and Open SourceHacker News is Free and Proprietary
  2. Slashdot icon
     40 likes

    News for nerds, stuff that matters. Slashdot (aka /.) is a technology-related news and discussion site with a focus on Linux, free and open source software and information freedom and privacy issues. The software it runs on, called Slashcode, is open source.

    43 Slashdot alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. 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
     
  4. Indie Hackers icon
     18 likes

    Founders share the revenue numbers behind their profitable apps, side projects, and businesses, and give in-depth interviews about how they did it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. daily.dev icon
     3 likes

    daily.dev is a community of developers getting together around discovering and exploring dev news. Join the movement to empower better software together.

    32 daily.dev alternatives

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    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  6. 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
     
  7. diff.blog icon
     5 likes

    Aggregator of engineering and developer blogs.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. 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
     
  9. Deadstack icon
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    DeadStack is your ruthless tech news filter: a real-time aggregator that reads hundreds of sources so you don’t have to. It hunts down the high-impact stories and surfaces them fast, stripped of fluff & hype.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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