Open source alternatives to Hacker News
50 open source Reading apps to use instead, best rated first.
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ArchiveBox
LaunchπΈ Save the current page with the toolbar button, keyboard shortcut, or right-click menu. π Send URLs to your own ArchiveBox server to preserve websites for later. π· Search, sort, tag, and manage your saved URLs in one place. β Automatically
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted
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Free Programming Books
LaunchFree Programming Books is a long-running list of free learning resources for programmers, kept by the Free Ebook Foundation on GitHub. It gathers freely available books, courses, interactive tutorials, podcasts, screencasts and problem sets
FreeOpen source
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RSSHub
LaunchEasy to use, and extensible RSS feed aggregator capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything ranging from social media to university departments. (Demo, Source Code) MIT Nodejs/Docker
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted
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Linkwarden
LaunchLinkwarden is an open-source, self-hostable bookmark manager that archives the pages you save. It keeps a full-page copy in several formats, including the full HTML, so a link still works after the original page disappears. You read saved a
Open sourceSelf-hosted
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Wallabag
Launchwallabag is a self-hostable, open-source read-it-later app for saving web articles. It extracts the content you care about, removes distractions and keeps the article in your own archive, so you can read it later in the browser, on a phone,
FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted
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Koodo Reader
LaunchKoodo Reader is a powerful ebook reader designed to provide a simple and easy-to-use reading experience. Format support: β’ EPUB (.epub) β’ PDF (.pdf) β’ DRM-free Mobipocket (.mobi) and Kindle (.azw3, .azw) β’ Plain text (.txt) β’ FictionBook (.
FreeOpen source
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