Hacker News Comment Highlighter

Highlights unread comments in Hacker News threads

What is Hacker News Comment Highlighter?

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

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Users: 37 ▼ -3

Rating: 5.00 (1)

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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# 93818 ▼ 2310

Other rankings

#6386 in Accessibility ▼ 81 #57 in hacker keyword 21 ▲ 14 #167 in news keyword 14 ▲ 45 #230 in highlighter keyword 42 ▼ 3 #263 in comment keyword 31 ▲ 2

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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.