HN Special - An addition to Hacker News

This extension refreshes the visual style of Hacker News and adds a few features, like infinite scrolling. Everything is toggleable.

HN Special - Enhance Hacker News Experience

HN Special, a Chrome extension, redefines the Hacker News experience with a new visual style and additional features. Notable features include infinite scrolling, opening links in new tabs, and an intuitive comment folding option. Users can personalize these features through the settings menu, and there's even an option to simply disable the new visual style while keeping the enhanced features. The software's open-source nature allows for contributions on GitHub.

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Extension stats

By: hn-special-publishing

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.72

(54)

Version: 1.4.11 (Last updated: 2022-10-05)

Creation date: 2017-12-18

Permissions:

*://news.ycombinator.com/*

Size: 854.02K

Email: ha*****@pxlbuzzard.com

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 23,175 ▼ 1

Other rankings

#2073 in Accessibility ▲ 31 #28 in hacker keyword 18 ▼ 3 #252 in news keyword 28 ▲ 17

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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Pros

Visually beautiful and improved interface
Great dark theme option
Customizability and clean design
Significant improvement over other HN extensions
Open source and responsive to user feedback

Cons

Editing space for submissions is limited
Infinite scrolling feature does not work for some users
Upvote/downvote arrows misaligned on comments page

Most mentioned

Best visual upgrade for Hacker News
Significant improvement in UI
Dark theme availability
Comparison and superiority over HN Enhancement Suite

User reviews

The reason I use MS Edge to read Hacker News. Wunderbar!

Ozkan Altuner, 2021-05-29

Hands down the best visual upgrade you can make to HN. It even has a dark theme!

Dakota Benjamin, 2019-07-09

Really liked it, second time that I'm using it (after a previous un-install). Biggest problem (for me, at least) is the submit to HN page...there is very little space to work with when editing the title of the submission...in that respect, HN Special is far inferior to the Post to HN bookmarklet. If you ever do manage to push an update (no pressure Dan), do let me know (with a reply/etc). Otherwise, functional extension.

Jeff Kahuthu, 2017-07-31

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Extension safety

Risk impact

HN Special - An addition to Hacker News requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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