Refined Hacker News

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

What is Refined Hacker News?

'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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By: https://mihir.ch

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.88 (8)

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

Creation date: 2020-05-19

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

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

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 25485 ▼ 258

Other rankings

#3953 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 12 #34 in hacker keyword 22 ▼ 3 #145 in news keyword 35 ▼ 10

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Summary

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✨ This is a Chrome extension that adds useful features and tweaks a few stuff on Hacker News to make the experience better... without changing the look and feel.

The minimalist design of Hacker News is best at offering news the way we like it. Yet there are a few small interface tweaks and additional features that can drastically improve our experience while browsing through items and comments which this extension implements.

Hopefully, in due course, a few of these tweaks can be implemented by Hacker News themselves. You can help too by emailing [email protected]!

Details regarding the features, such keyboard mappings can be viewed here: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#highlights

The extension has been inspired by Sindre Sorhus's extension "Refined GitHub".

User reviews

I want to ask in the permission, why the browser should give permission to 'read and change your browser history' ?

Richard Firdaus, 2021-03-02

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

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Safety

Risk impact

Refined Hacker News is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Refined Hacker News if you trust the publisher.