Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Habr

The 20 closest Tech community blog alternatives to Habr, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Habr? The closest matches are vc.ru, ixbt.com and DEV Community. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Habr

Habr habr.com

Publications / My feed / Habr

Wikidata: collaborative blog

Top 10K · #3,856 English 9 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

Collaborative blog and community where users publish technical articles about programming, IT, science and the internet, with comments, voting and topic hubs; available in Russian and English.

Who it’s for
Software developers and IT professionals
Business model
Advertising and sponsored corporate blogs

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Habr’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

MakeUseOfArs TechnicaEngadgetGizmodoThe RegisterXDA DevelopersSlashdotGitHubBoing BoingDEV Community

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Habr

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Habr, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    DEV Community dev.to Top 10K English

    DEV Community

    A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

  2. 02
    Boing Boing boingboing.net Top 10K English

    Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things

    Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...

  3. 03
    GitHub github.blog Top 10K English

    Home - The GitHub Blog

    Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.

  4. 04
    int08h.com Top 10K English

    int08h

  5. 05
    Slashdot slashdot.org Top 10K English

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software

    Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.

  6. 06
    XDA Developers xda-developers.com Top 10K English

    XDA

    The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.

  7. 07
    The Register theregister.com Top 10K English

    Technology news and analysis | The Register

    All the latest news for enterprise technology decision-makers and IT pros | The Register

  8. 08
    Gizmodo gizmodo.com Top 10K English

    Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

    Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.

  9. 09
    Product Hunt producthunt.com Top 10K English

    product discovery website

  10. 10
    Engadget engadget.com Top 10K English

    Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews

    Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.

  11. 11
    Computerworld computerworld.com Top 10K English

    Computerworld

    Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: generative AI, Windows, mobile, Apple/enterprise, office suites, productivity software, and collaboration software, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI and Google.

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    Ars Technica arstechnica.com Top 10K English

    Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.

    News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.

  13. 13
    MakeUseOf makeuseof.com Top 10K English

    MUO - Technology, Simplified.

    MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.

  14. 14
    The Verge theverge.com Top 1K English

    The Verge

    The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.

  15. 15
    GeeksforGeeks geeksforgeeks.org Top 10K English

    GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal

    Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.

  16. 16
    CNET cnet.com Top 1K English

    CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET

    Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.

  17. 17
    PCWorld pcworld.com Top 10K English

    PCWorld

    PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.

  18. 18
    ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com Top 10K English

    ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news

    Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries in astronomy, anthropology, biology, chemistry, climate & environment, computers, engineering, health & medicine, math, physics, psychology, technology, and more -- from the world's leading universities and research organizations.

  19. 19
    ScienceAlert sciencealert.com Top 10K English

    ScienceAlert : The Best in Science News And Amazing Breakthroughs

    The latest science news. Publishing independent, fact-checked reporting on health, space, nature, technology, and the environment.

  20. 20
    HowStuffWorks howstuffworks.com Top 10K English

    American media company

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to habr.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Habr uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Habr is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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Analytics
Advertising
CDN
  • unpkg asset https://unpkg.com/pwacompat
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

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