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.

What is HN Special - An addition to Hacker News?

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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By: hn-special-publishing

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.73 (55)

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

Creation date: 2017-12-18

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

*://news.ycombinator.com/*

Size: 854.02K

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

Ranking

# 23859 ▼ 212

Other rankings

#2147 in Accessibility ▼ 2 #15 in hacker keyword 21 ▲ 4 #89 in news keyword 14 ▲ 20 #206 in features keyword 9 ▲ 87

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Extension summary

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HN Special adds a completely new visual style to Hacker News and a few new features, such as:

Infinite scrolling
Open links in new tabs
More accurate domain names
Comment folding
Mark as read
Sticky header

Even more features are going to come in the future!

You can choose which features you want to enable right from the settings menu. If you want, you can also disable the visual style and keep the rest of the features enabled.

This extension is completely open source. If you wish to add a new feature or make some changes, feel free to contribute to it on GitHub! https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/hn-special

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Great visual upgrade to Hacker News.
Offers a dark theme.
Open source extension.
Improves user interface and user experience.
Considered better than HN Enhancement Suite.

Cons

Limited space for editing titles on the submit to HN page.
Infinite scrolling feature not working for some users.
Upvote/downvote arrows misalignment on comments page.
Color scheme can be jarring for some users.

Most mentioned

Dark theme
Visual upgrade
Comparison with HN Enhancement Suite
User interface improvement
Issue with submit to HN page

Recent 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.