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Hacker News Station
Local-first Hacker News client with SQLite FTS5 & AI
HN Station is a fast, local-first desktop client for reading Hacker News. Built with Go, Electron, and SQLite, it archives every story and comment thread directly on your machine. Key features: • Multi-pane layout to read articles and comments simultaneously • Instant local search using SQLite FTS5 • User-configurable tag-mapping system for query expansion • Optional local AI sidebar for summary insights via Ollama Completely open-source and private.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I built HN Station because I love reading Hacker News, but I always found it frustrating to jump back and forth between article links and comment tabs. I wanted a fluid, unified interface that allowed me to skim both simultaneously while preserving my privacy.
Since I wanted it to be blazingly fast and local-first, I skipped the traditional SaaS model and built a native desktop utility. It runs a Go backend alongside an Electron frontend, storing your reading history entirely in a local SQLite database.
A couple of fun technical details under the hood:
• It utilizes SQLite FTS5 for instant full-text search across your history.
• It features a flat-file tag_mappings.json configuration, giving you a custom "query expansion" engine where you can map broad topics (like #LLM) to multiple technical synonyms.
• If you have Ollama running locally (or plug in an API key), an optional side panel uses local models to give you instant bullet-point summaries of long articles.
This entire app was fully designed and built over the last two months by 'vibe-coding' with the Google Antigravity agent IDE, which was an incredible engineering experience in its own right.
It's completely open-source, lightweight, and free. Check out the web preview at hnstation.dev or grab the desktop binaries on GitHub. I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any features you'd like to see next!
About Hacker News Station on Product Hunt
“Local-first Hacker News client with SQLite FTS5 & AI”
Hacker News Station was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #122 on the daily leaderboard. HN Station is a fast, local-first desktop client for reading Hacker News. Built with Go, Electron, and SQLite, it archives every story and comment thread directly on your machine. Key features: • Multi-pane layout to read articles and comments simultaneously • Instant local search using SQLite FTS5 • User-configurable tag-mapping system for query expansion • Optional local AI sidebar for summary insights via Ollama Completely open-source and private.
On the analytics side, Hacker News Station competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hacker News Station performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hacker News Station?
Hacker News Station was hunted by Rajesh Kumar. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Hacker News Station including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Rajesh Kumar