Hacker News Enhancement Suite

Hacker News Enhanced.
What is Hacker News Enhancement Suite?
Hacker News Enhancement Suite is a must-have Chrome extension for Hacker News enthusiasts. It brings a completely new visual style, with added features like collapsible comment threads, links to parent comments, highlighting original posters and previously visited links. The extension further enhances navigation and interaction on the platform, with features like easy access to all pages, keyboard controls, user tags, and the display of your upvote history. It also works to streamline your experience by redirecting to the front page when hitting expired links and providing clickable links in text submissions and user profiles.

Extension stats

Users: 4,000+
Rating: 4.43 (89)
Version: 1.6.0.3 (Last updated: 2023-01-02)
Creation date: 2018-09-14
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Size: 76.94K
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Hacker News Enhancement Suite (v1.6.0.3)
4.52 (33) 642
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Extension summary

  • Completely new style
  • Easy access to all pages
  • Enhanced comment threads
    • Collapsible comments
    • Link to parent
    • Display all comments on paginated threads
    • Highlight the original poster
  • Show and highlight new comments since you last view a thread
  • Highlight links once clicked to more easily identify what you've recently visited
  • Redirect back to the front page upon hitting an expired link
  • New smooth and scalable up and down vote arrows
  • Clickable links in text submissions and user profiles
  • Display how many times you've upvoted each user
  • Graphs on polls
  • Ability to tag users
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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Enhances readability
  • Collapsible threads/comments
  • Display comment count and votes side by side
Cons
  • Drastic and unexpected style changes
  • Loss of functionality (e.g. upvote ability) in recent builds
  • Slows down the site
Most mentioned
  • Collapsible comments
  • Dark theme request
  • Loss of upvote ability
  • Drastic style changes
  • Incompatibility with Dark Reader
Recent reviews
Working as expected
by Kaishu Sahu, 2024-05-24

I like it. Could you add Dark theme?
by Yerzhan, 2024-02-20

It's a good extension but it doesn't work with Dark Reader unless I switch to the native HN layout. Can you please fix it?
by welovfree, 2022-03-10
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hacker News Enhancement Suite requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hacker News Enhancement Suite is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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