Scour for Hacker News Readers

Tons of great content gets submitted to Hacker News. The front page shows you what's popular. Scour finds the hidden gems that match your interests.

There's great content waiting to be found that others missed or haven't seen yet.

See for Yourself

Try searching for a topic you care about. Scour will find posts that were submitted to HN but never made the front page:

This searches posts from the last month. Sign up to get a personalized feed that keeps you updated on all of your interests, no matter how niche.

Scour: Personal Relevance Over Popularity

HN and other social aggregators show you what the community up voted.

Scour finds content that matches your interests, regardless of popularity. A post with 1 point can rank above one with 1000 if it's more relevant to you.

Any Topic You Want

Interests on Scour are free-form text. You can add any topics you like, whether they are professional, niche, or personal. Scour will find great content for you.

Here are some examples of what other users are interested in:

Feeds Beyond HN

This same approach works for any high-volume feed. Scour currently watches 16499 community-contributed sources (blogs, papers, newsletters).

HN is just one of many Feeds. Scour let's you search all of them, or curate your own collection of sources.

Discussion Links

Scour includes discussion links for every post so you can quickly jump to the comments on HN, Lobsters, Reddit, or Bluesky.

HN Feeds

Scour tracks these HN feeds. Subscribe to them on Scour to filter their content through your interests:

You can read the full story of why I built Scour, read how ranking works, or read about how I think about pricing.