Hacker News Color

Hacker News Color

Colors and sorts the scores of Hacker News pages according to score.

Hacker News Color
What is Hacker News Color?
Hacker News Color is a Chrome extension that color-codes and sorts the scores of Hacker News entries. It uses a dark-to-bright scale to represent low to high scores, allowing users to easily identify the popularity of each entry. The entries are also sorted from highest to lowest score, making it more convenient to navigate and find the most popular articles.
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Stats
Users: 1
Version: 1.4 (Last updated: 2023-11-20)
Creation date: 2014-04-04
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Size: 3.95K
URLs: Website
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Summary

Color-codes the scores of Hacker News entries based on score, where dark (near black) is low score and bright red is high scores. The entries are also sorted by score from highest to lowest.

User reviews
I haven't really had any direction in my life for a while, then I discovered this extension. And while I still have no direction, probably worse than before, it's cool that hacker news articles are sorted.
by Jeff Palm Jeff Palm, 2022-06-23
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Safety
Risk impact

Hacker News Color is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hacker News Color is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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