Fancy Hacker News

By: EWS

A fancy redesign of Hacker News with theme support.

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Fancy Hacker News

A fancy version of the original Hacker News UI. It works on top of the original site without changing any of its requests or main interactions. You can enjoy the same HN experience with theme support and many QoL improvements and only a hefty amount of Javascript ;).

Boasts full feature parity with the original HN UI, including all logged-in features, and proper mobile device support. This extension runs 100% client-side and does not proxy any requests.

Features

Themes: light, dark, nord, amoled
Proper mobile device support
Full feature parity with the original HN UI, including all logged-in features
Search modal with Cmd/Ctrl+K shortcut

QoL improvements:

Readability is (arguably) improved on all pages
Proper mobile support
Low karma comments are more visible and show their downvote level - from 1 (least downvoted) to 9 (most downvoted)
Most things have badges that indicate their status - dead, deleted, new users
A # button for copying comment permalinks
A button for scrolling back to top
Footer now shows all relevant documentation links (that I know of)
Documentation links are no longer raw HTML
Algolia search can be triggered with Cmd/Ctrl+K and displays in a modal instead of a new tab

Privacy and Safety

The extension does not collect any user data, does not track activity, and makes no network requests beyond those already performed natively by Hacker News.

Fancy Hacker News only parses the already-loaded page HTML and re-renders it with a custom UI. All interactions such as voting, flagging, commenting, and searching still go directly through news.ycombinator.com and hn.algolia.com as they would without the extension.

Known Issues

Dead and deleted comments still cause the prev and next buttons to be returned by HN, even when the user has them hidden. This is an existing HN bug we do not touch.
I do not have enough Karma to properly test some features, such as: flagging, downvoting and top bar colors.

Feedback

If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, please open an issue on GitHub.

Disclaimer

Hacker News and the YC brand are property of Y Combinator.

This browser extension is an independent, open-source project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Y Combinator.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

EWS

Daily users:

Rating:

5.00

(1)

Version:

1.4.0 Last updated: 2026-06-13

Version code:

6305242

Creation date:

2026-04-11

Risk:

Permissions:

storage

Content scripts matches:

news.ycombinator.com

Size:

292.14KB

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-15

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 59,761 ▼ 360

Other rankings

#82 in hacker keyword 26 #94 in fansly keyword 4 #243 in news keyword 37 ▼ 2

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Developed by:

EWS

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fancy-hacker-news/

Website:

https://github.com/ewsbr/fancy-hacker-news

User Reviews

Must-have for Hacker News on phone! Reshapes the 90s-style interface into something quite usable, even on a small screen.

by Fi*****, 2026-05-08

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Is Fancy Hacker News Safe?

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Fancy Hacker News requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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Fancy Hacker News is recently added, and hasn't been around long enough for us to gather enough data to accurately assess its risk level.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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