Hacker News Comment Highlighter

Highlights unread comments in Hacker News threads

Hacker News Comment Highlighter - Chrome Extension

Hacker News Comment Highlighter is a Chrome extension that keeps track of seen comments in a thread, highlighting new comments upon return to the page. Stay updated and easily read what's new in active threads.

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By: Jonathan Bergknoff

Users: 35

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Rating: 5.00

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Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2015-08-06)

Creation date: 2015-08-06

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

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Size: 13.46K

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# 96,267 ▼ 636

Other rankings

#6435 in Accessibility ▼ 6 #63 in hacker keyword 11 ▼ 10 #227 in news keyword 32 ▼ 34 #249 in highlighter keyword 5 ▼ 12

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Extension summary

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This Chrome extension keeps track of which comments you've seen in a given Hacker News thread, and then highlights the new comments when you return to the page. This is useful when you are following an active thread and just want to read what's new.

This extension is open source. The source code is available at https://github.com/jbergknoff/hn-comment-highlighter.