What Hacker News Says

Easily find Hacker News threads about the page you're currently browsing.

What is What Hacker News Says?

What Hacker News Says is a dead-simple and useful Chrome extension that lets you find threads on the popular social news aggregator, Hacker News. With just a click, it fetches threads via the HN Search API, ensuring your privacy. Explore Hacker News discussions about the web page you're currently browsing with this minimalistic extension.

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By: https://pino.ceniccola.it

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Users: 423 ▼ -5

Rating: 5.00 (6)

Version: 0.2.0 (Last updated: 2021-03-08)

Creation date: 2020-08-04

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab

Size: 354.30K

Email: pi*****@aprico.org

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 40758 ▼ 425

Other rankings

#1350 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 7 #12 in hacker keyword 23 ▼ 1 #59 in news keyword 31 ▲ 8

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Summary

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Dead-simple yet very useful extension that looks for threads on on popular social news aggregator Hacker News via HN Search API (powered by Algolia). For your privacy, this web extension fetches the API only when the popup is clicked and does not run any background script. It also requires minimum permissions (just "activeTab" actually).

Source is on GitHub: https://github.com/pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext