Hacker News Tweak

Name: Hacker News Tweak
Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Author: lishi1608

Hacker News Tweak is a chrome extension to make HN more user friendly. The extension will activate when you're on hacker news once…

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Hacker News Tweak is a chrome extension to make HN more user friendly. The extension will activate when you're on hacker news once installed. Unlike some other apps, you don't need to goto any page, so your bookmark won't increase.

Features:

-recover the 'best' link -Make news title bigger. Highlight points count and comments count if very many. -Add share function by AddThis. This will simplify sharing Hacker News to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, weibo etc. Now be a social hacker. -Add sort by heat function. This will make you quickly find the hottest(max pointed/commented) news in a single Hacker News page by one click.

Enjoy!

Extension

By:

lishi1608

Users:

Rating:

4.75

(4)

Version:

1.1 Last updated: 2013-06-19

Creation date:

2013-06-19

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
tabs

Size:

59.73KB

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-08

Ranking

# 128,113 ▼ 1,021

Other rankings

#18811 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 107 #40 in hacker keyword 20 ▲ 25 #230 in news keyword 25 ▲ #279 in function keyword 6 ▲

User reviews

super

me*****, 2013-07-05

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Hacker News Tweak requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Hacker News Tweak has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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