#4.31 / 51 rate

HackerNew

1,000 users

2021-04-20

Tom Moor

[email protected]

This extension is being deprecated because it doesn't follow Chrome extension best practices.

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Description

The best Hacker News extension, making HN quicker and more useful since 2012.

Once you install this extension you'll never be able to go back to regular Hacker News, featuring:

- Improved readability design
- Retina screen support
- User following
- Super fast inline replies
- Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames
- Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user
- Endless scrolling
- Collapsible comment threads
- Direct link to Google Cache version
- Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer

HackerNew is open source - forks and improvements are welcome:
https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew

Reviews

Francis So

This is a good improvement to the Hacker News site. My only bug I've notice is when HackerNews has the "Applications are open for YC Summer 2022", the banner at the bottom blocks off the "More" button and it prevents users from going to the following page.