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+# Hacker News Clones
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+Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
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+I find out about it because [my analytics digest](https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/netlify-analytics-email-digest/) will get a _yuge_ uptick in page views. 
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+What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. _The_ Hacker News is always at the top, but then after it comes a bunch of clones or related “scraped tech news” sites.
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+I sometimes click through just to see them and marvel at what an interesting, diverse place the web is and all the people building on it.
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+Here’s a list of the ones that showed up in my analytics recently:
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+- [hckrnews.com](https://hckrnews.com)
+- [hackerweb.app](https://hackerweb.app)
+- [hn.premii.com](https://hn.premii.com)
+- [hn.algolia.com](https://hn.algolia.com)
+- [brutalist.report](https://brutalist.report)
+- [hnrss.org](https://hnrss.github.io)
+- [hackurls.com](https://hackurls.com)
+- [hn.svelte.dev](https://hn.svelte.dev/top/1)
+- [news.hada.io](https://news.hada.io)
+- [hntoplinks.com](https://hntoplinks.com)
+- [progscrape.com](https://progscrape.com)
+- [spike.news](https://spike.news)
+- [serializer.io](https://serializer.io)
+- [news.social-protocols.org](https://news.social-protocols.org)
+- [hackernews.betacat.io](https://hackernews.betacat.io)
+- [old.thenews.im](https://old.thenews.im)
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+While I personally don’t spend a lot of time on Hacker News, I kinda love that the site exists, gets so much traffic, and AFAIK the owners aren’t actively seeking to make every last pageview happen on their domain (`news.ycombinator.com`).
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+I kinda love that there are still places on the web where people can explore creating alternative experiences without being shut down because they are outside the officially-sanctioned environment.