Modern for Hacker News

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.
Stats
Users: 5,000+
Rating: 4.52 (27)
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
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Summary

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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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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Adjustable theme and font size
  • Clean and intuitive interface
  • Bookmark submissions and comments
Cons
  • Issues with loading on second page of HN
  • Extension is broken for some users
  • Links to visited sites should be dimmed
Most mentioned
  • Adjustable theme and font size
  • Clean and intuitive interface
  • Extension is broken for some users
Recent reviews
It's a great extension, much welcome. What would make it trully awesome would be filtering stories.
by Giovanni Tirloni Giovanni Tirloni, 2024-04-04

by Amir Astaneh Amir Astaneh, 2024-03-07

by Igor Kononov Igor Kononov, 2024-02-10
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Safety
Risk impact

Modern for Hacker News is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Modern for Hacker News has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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