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.

Hacker News is available to install from Chrome Web Store and for download from this page. It has 251 active users The latest version is 1.0.4, and it was published 2 years ago.

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Total download count: 5 (Only count downloads from Chrome-Stats)
Install Hacker News from Chrome Web Store
All available versions

You can find the current and older versions of Hacker News here. You can download the archived versions or inspect their source codes.

As a free user, you can only download the latest version.

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Version Download Size Download count Timestamp
1.0.4 Sign in to download 486.70K 3 2022-04-20
1.0.2
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486.73K 2 2022-02-09
How to install Hacker News from a CRX file
Option 1: The easy way (for Windows users only)
  1. Download and run chrome-stats.exe file on your PC. This method will allow you to install Chrome extensions directly from chrome-stats.com in one click. You only need to do this once!
  2. Type in chrome://restart in the URL bar to restart the browser for the changes to take effect.
  3. Download and install the Hacker News CRX file
Option 2: Advanced method
  1. Download Hacker News CRX file
  2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to use option 1, or download the ZIP file instead.
  3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
  4. Enable Developer mode
  5. Drag and drop the downloaded Hacker News CRX file into the Extensions page
  6. When prompted, click Add extension to install Hacker News.
How to install Hacker News from a ZIP file
  1. Download and unpack the Hacker News ZIP file to a directory of your choice.
  2. In Chrome browser, go to chrome://extensions
  3. Enable Developer mode.
  4. Click on the Load Unpacked button.
  5. Select the directory of with the unpacked Hacker News ZIP file from step 1. Hacker News is now installed on your browser.
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