Hacker News

Hacker News

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What is Hacker News?
'Hacker News' Chrome extension is a one-stop destination to read the latest news and popular articles from Hacker News in an uncluttered, user-friendly interface. It allows users to filter stories, share them on Twitter, post comments, and switch between two themes for their comfort. It also offers a readability mode to ensure easy reading. This extension aims at offering the best of Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com) with added benefits like easy navigation and enhanced user experience.
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Stats
Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.40 (20)
Version: 2.1 (Last updated: 2014-06-27)
Creation date: 2014-06-26
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • unlimitedStorage
  • notifications
Size: 9.23K
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Summary

Read Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com) articles and comments with this clean, simple, modern looking and fast performing universal app.

Tweet stories an post comments

You can filter stories by • Ask HN • Show HN • Today's best stories • Yesterday's best stories • Week's best stories • NoobStories • Newest

Two themes • Standard YC color theme

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User reviews
It's a really nice Chrome App. Good design and fluid. I would have put 5 stars if the view article was better. Right not it feels the fonts are too small and the pictures inside articles stick to the left for most articles.
by A Google user, 2014-04-19

Looks & works great.
by A Google user, 2014-03-19

It's a really nice Chrome App. Good design and fluid. I would have put 5 stars if the view article was better. Right not it feels the fonts are too small and the pictures inside articles stick to the left for most articles.
by A Google user, 2014-04-19
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Safety
Risk impact

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

Risk likelihood

Hacker News has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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