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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Extension stats

Users: 33
1
Rating: 5.00
(1)
Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2015-08-06)
Version code: 1.0.1
Creation date: 2015-08-06
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 13.46K

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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
by abdallah alsamman, 2016-12-13
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hacker News Comment Highlighter requires very minimum permissions.

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