Hacker News discussion

Displays an icon linking to comments on Hacker News for the current page.

What is Hacker News discussion?

Hacker News discussion is a Chrome extension that displays an icon linking to comments on Hacker News for the current page. It offers keyboard shortcuts to easily open comments in a new or current tab. The extension does not collect any data and does not have permission to access data on websites you visit.

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By: Adam Sapek

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Users: 120 ▼ -3

Rating: 5.00 (7)

Version: 1.9 (Last updated: 2015-09-20)

Creation date: 2015-09-19

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
https://hn.algolia.com/*

Size: 8.96K

Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 60060 ▼ 908

Other rankings

#4102 in Tools ▼ 48 #31 in hacker keyword 17 ▲ 4

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Summary

Analyze keywords

The icon is displayed only for pages that have been discussed on Hacker News.

Keyboard shortcuts:

Ctrl+Y: open comments in a new tab Alt+Y: open comments in the current tab

The extension does not collect any data. Note however that the URLs of pages you visit will be sent over https to HNSearch (https://hn.algolia.com) which is hosted by a YC company Algolia.

The extension does not have permission to access data on websites you visit.

User reviews

It would be great if the toolbar icon would have a badge with a number of comments in example, like this reddit one does: http://bit.ly/2YvaH0T

Tadas Milkintas, 2019-03-27

Great tool thank you! Please could you add the option of open the discussion in a new tab?

Rubén Gómez, 2016-05-26

Very unfortunately has stopped work – any chance of an update?

Morgan Sutherland, 2016-05-18

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Safety

Risk impact

Hacker News discussion may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.