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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Extension summary
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.
User reviews
nice, I was going to code this, and then I googled it and found this, does perfectly what it says
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abdallah alsamman, 2016-12-13
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Hacker News Comment Highlighter requires very minimum permissions.
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We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Hacker News Comment Highlighter. Use it at your own risk.
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