Comments Owl for Hacker News

Highlight new comments, mute users, and other tweaks for Hacker News

Comments Owl is a powerful Chrome extension that improves your Hacker News browsing experience by making it easier to follow comment threads across multiple visits. It highlights new comments, shows new comment counts on list pages, and collapses threads without new comments to keep your feed organized. The extension offers advanced user controls including the ability to mute users and add personal notes to user profiles, enhancing discussion management.

Additionally, Comments Owl refines the user interface with Reddit-style comment folding, improved mobile navigation, and safer flag/hide controls to prevent accidental actions. Features such as customizable highlighting of recent comments, toggling reply link displays, and added upvoted item tracking link make interacting with Hacker News more intuitive and efficient.

By:
https://soitis.dev
Users:
118 19
Rating:
4.00
(1)
Version:
3.0.0 Last updated: 2025-01-02
Creation date:
2019-08-17
Risk:
Low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • storage
Size:
48.21K
Email:
ex*****@soitis.dev
URLs:
Website
Full description:
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Source:
Chrome Web Store
Updated:
a day ago

Other platforms

Comments Owl for Hacker News (v3.0.0)
58 5.00 (1)

Publisher Change History

2025-01-02: Email was changed from jo*****@gmail.com to ex*****@soitis.dev

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Comments Owl for Hacker News requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
Risk likelihood

Comments Owl for Hacker News has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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