HackerNew

The best Hacker News extension, making HN quicker and more useful since 2012.

What is HackerNew?

HackerNew is a potent Chrome extension that revolutionizes the way you interact with Hacker News. It provides an improved readability design, retina screen support, user following, highly responsive inline replies, and quick profiles with social network info. It also allows for the filtering of stories based on terms, phrases, domain, or user, offering endless scrolling, collapsible comment threads, and easy social sharing options. Open source and amenable to enhancements!

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By: Tom Moor

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.32 (50)

Version: 1.3.2 (Last updated: 2021-04-20)

Creation date: 2021-04-20

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Size: 214.02K

Email: to*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 22849 ▼ 57

Other rankings

#105 in News & Weather #102 in direct link keyword 11 #147 in hacker keyword 17

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Not available on Edge

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Summary

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Once you install this extension you'll never be able to go back to regular Hacker News, featuring:

Improved readability design
Retina screen support
User following
Super fast inline replies
Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames
Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user
Endless scrolling
Collapsible comment threads
Direct link to Google Cache version
Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer

HackerNew is open source - forks and improvements are welcome: https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Improves Hacker News site
Supports HN's native thread collapsing
Clean and minimalistic interface
Allows for hidden reading of Hacker News

Cons

Search box is hidden
Some features are annoying
Hovering over a username crashes the browser

Most mentioned

Supports HN's native thread collapsing
Search box is hidden
Infinite scrolling issues

Recent reviews

is no work. couldn't browse HN till I uninstalled.

A Google user, 2012-05-07

Awesome extension. Best part is that no one knows you're reading HN and they won't judge you. It'd be nice if the titles were smaller, I like seeing more than 12 at once

A Google user, 2013-03-08

is no work. couldn't browse HN till I uninstalled.

A Google user, 2012-05-07

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