Hacked Hacker News
Hacker News got hacked! Browsing and commenting on Hacker News made easier.
What is Hacked Hacker News?
Hacked Hacker News is a Chrome extension that enhances your browsing and commenting experience on Hacker News. It provides improved comment threads, tracking of read comments, highlighting unread comments, easy navigation, and endless front page with fresh links.
Stats
By:
prophetjohn
Users:
44
Creation date:
2013-01-22
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
Size:
83.78K
URLs:
Website
Stats date:
Chrome-Stats Rank
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81500
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Summary
Features
Improved comment threads
- Whether or not you've read a comment is tracked*.
- *Old comments are cleaned out after a few days.
- Comments you haven't read are highlighted.
- The number of new comments per thread is displayed in the header.
- Submit new comments, edit and delete existing ones without leaving the page and losing your place.
- Navigate the comment threads with your keyboard.
- j: go to next unread comment
- a: upvote current comment
- z: downvote current comment
- r: reply to current comment
Endless front page
Safety
Risk impact
Hacked Hacker News is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Hacked Hacker News has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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