Hacker News

Hacker News

Hacker News for your new tab. Night mode or day mode (just like your IDE). Card view with images or the classic HN list view.

What is Hacker News?
Hacker News is an essential source for tech news. The Hacker News Chrome extension offers night mode, images, and grid or list view for an enhanced reading experience.
Stats
Users: 254 ▲ 1
Rating: 5.00 (5)
Version: 1.0.4 (Last updated: 2022-04-20)
Creation date: 2018-10-26
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Overrides new tab: Yes
Size: 488.45K
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Summary
  • Infinite scroll
  • Hacker news in default tab
  • Images for stories
  • Night mode
  • Grid or list view

Get all the latest tech, startup, and coding news instantly. Read HN in night mode... like the web is meant to be viewed. The grid view offers images and icons to more easily scan the news items.

This is an independent Hacker News clone with no connection to Y Combinator (YC). Hacker News is an essential source for developers, founders, designers, software engineers, and anyone obsessed with startups. Thanks to all our friends from Startup School!

The Chrome Extension is open source, and you are able to build your own as well! Check out the gitconnected GitHub account under the hacker-news-reader repo.

Take the hassle out of reading staying up to date with the news and content that is important to you.

User reviews
Simple and attractive. Very nice reader.
by Dan Ward Dan Ward, 2018-10-03

Clean interface and great news source!
by Rob Hibbard Rob Hibbard, 2018-10-03
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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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