Hyped News Amplifier

Spot hyped news at a glance. (on Hacker News and Reddit)

What is Hyped News Amplifier?

Hyped News Amplifier is a Chrome extension that spreads Hacker News messages and rates Reddit messages according to points and comments. It allows customization of weightage and preserves the list positions of messages as they age.

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By: https://mondotondo.com

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Users: 28 ▲ 1

Rating: 5.00 (6)

Version: 1.9.0 (Last updated: 2021-09-23)

Creation date: 2014-07-11

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

declarativeContent
storage
webNavigation

Size: 35.39K

Email: mo*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 90260 ▲ 899

Other rankings

#6539 in Social Networking ▲ 7 #204 in news keyword 19 ▲ 29

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Summary

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Hyped News Amplifier spreads Hacker News messages on the page, and rates Reddit messages with up to 5 stars, according to the number of points and comments, conveniently weighted the way you like. At the same time, it preserves the list positions of all the messages, so that they continue drifting down as they age.

-- CONFIGURATION --

Hyped News Amplifier configuration is dead simple. It only needs a number to do its magic. By default the number is set to 50%, meaning that points and comments weigh the same. Open the Options page and customize that number. For example, if you set it to 10% points and 90% comments, then comments will count 9 times more than points.

-- CHANGE LOG --

1.9.0

Fixed Reddit support
Introduced the Stars mode
Simplified the Options page

User reviews

Can't read hacker news without this anymore. Seriously.

Brent Scheibelhut, 2014-08-23

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Safety

Risk impact

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