Refined Hacker News

✨ Add useful features and tweak a few stuff to make the HN experience better without changing the look and feel

Refined Hacker News - Enhance Your HN Browsing Experience

'Refined Hacker News' is a minimalist yet impactful Chrome extension. It enriches your interaction with Hacker News by integrating judicious tweaks and additional features. Its aim is to help you navigate through content and comments more efficiently while maintaining the style we all appreciate. This extension also motivates users to advocate for HN to incorporate some of these enhancements. Find more details, including keyboard mappings, in the provided GitHub link. Inspired by Sindre Sorhus's 'Refined GitHub' extension.

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Extension stats

By: https://mihir.ch

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 5.00

(7)

Version: 22.12.17 (Last updated: 2022-12-19)

Creation date: 2020-05-19

Permissions:

storage
history
tabs
*://news.ycombinator.com/*
*://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/*
*://title.mihir.ch/*
*://wayback.now.sh/*
*://hn.algolia.com/*

Size: 85.41K

Email: pl*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 26,584 ▲ 7

Other rankings

#4182 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 28 #84 in hacker keyword 18 ▼ 3

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Refined Hacker News (v22.12.17)

440 4.82

(22)

Not available on Edge

User reviews

Just offers what is needed. Not more, not less. The best thing is it preserves the simplicity of HN. Thanks Mihir!

Rahul Tiwari, 2020-01-25

Love it

matthew martori, 2019-06-14

Looking good. I think it would be a good idea to make the comment-thread toggle a little less seamless. I do think the border is a little "intense" for a natural reading experience. You can actually apply custom CSS yourself to fix it, but having it seamless out of the box would be nice, too. Maybe I'm picky though, 5-stars anyway.

Alex Ivanovs, 2019-06-13

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Refined Hacker News requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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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