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

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 22685 ▼ 194

Other rankings

#1972 in Accessibility ▲ 2 #32 in hacker keyword 22 #134 in news keyword 35 ▲ 1 #299 in features keyword 35 ▼ 6

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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

User reviews summary

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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 for Hacker News
Has a popular dark theme
Open-source
Has customization options
Makes the HN interface more enjoyable and usable

Cons

Submit to HN page issues
Upvote/Downvote arrows in comments not aligned
Infinite scrolling doesn't work for some
No option to change font/background color

Most mentioned

Visual improvement
Dark theme
Comparison with HN Enhancement Suite
RES for HN

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.