Modern for Hacker News

A redesigned web interface for Hacker News.

What is Modern for Hacker News?

'Modern for Hacker News' is a Chrome extension providing a redesigned web interface for Hacker News. The tool enhances the platform by introducing a more modern and sleek design which is fully customizable according to user preference. Key features include Themes, Fonts, Styles adjustments, viewing History, improvements to Comments, viewing Index, redesigned Profiles and full support for HN Accounts. Users have the ability to switch back to the old design with a single click. The extension is compatible with the existing HN features, offering improvements over the original interface.

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Extension stats

By: https://modernhn.com

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 6,000+

Rating: 4.45 (31)

Version: 1.14 (Last updated: 2022-11-15)

Creation date: 2022-09-08

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
storage
unlimitedStorage

Host permissions:

*://news.ycombinator.com/*

Size: 7.12M

Email: su*****@modernredesigns.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 13306 ▼ 126

Other rankings

#3676 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 2 #11 in hacker keyword 21 ▲ 5 #138 in news keyword 14 ▲ 66

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Modern for Hacker News (v1.14)

4.38

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Extension summary

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Enhance your Hacker News experience with a beautiful, clean, modern design that's fully customizable.

Once installed, this extension will simply apply the new look and features to existing Hacker News pages, without you having to do anything.

All current features on Hacker News are supported, this extension simply builds upon the existing interface to offer many improvements, including:

✔ Themes – light, classic HN, slate, dark, black ✔ Fonts – sans, serif, change font size ✔ Styles – adjust column width, line height, justify text ✔ History – quickly jump to stories you've previously viewed ✔ Comments – inline reply + many other improvements ✔ Index – switch between list / table view, customize columns ✔ Profiles – new design with tabs, clickable links etc ✔ Accounts – all HN account features supported ✔ Switch back to the old design (if needed) with one click

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