HACKER Q&A
📣 monkhood

Are there any alternative front ends for HN?


I realise a lot of people here like the minimalist look of HN but I think I would appreciate a bit more refined user experience on HN.

I'm not just asking about reading HN, but also posting, commenting etc.

Is having an alternative UI even allowed by HN? I mean both technically (e.g. cross-origin, authentication) but also officially?

  👤 pndy Accepted Answer ✓
How about Modern for Hacker News: https://www.modernhn.com/ - available for both Gecko and Chromium-based browsers.

There's also a Wikipedia version: https://www.modernwiki.app/ - tho now it just slightly redefines already modernized interface that was released months ago

👤 freshairr
You can checkout this repo and see if something is more appealing to you: https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news

I personally just use Stylus and have a custom css for making things a bit more readable and user friendly.

There's also this extension that just refines a couple things: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

👤 bayat
I’ve been liking using HACK (iOS)

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...

👤 rasz
Not alternative, but enhanced: https://github.com/raszpl/hackahackernews
👤 ssnxd
https://hn.devss.io/
👤 arthurcolle
I mostly use curl, much easier than such a painful app like a browser
👤 solardev
There are a bunch of apps on the app store too.