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!

Extension stats

By: Tom Moor
Users: 1,000+
Rating: 4.31 (51)
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

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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

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

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Good improvement to the Hacker News site.
  • Awesome interface, very minimalistic and clean.
  • HackerNews is much better with this extension.
  • Great functionality overall.
Cons
  • Commenting is currently broken.
  • Footer with search is hard to access.
  • Hides the search box.
  • Infinite scrolling issues.
  • Some features (like pop-up karma boxes) are annoying.
Most mentioned
  • Banner blocking the 'More' button.
  • Issues with commenting.
  • Problems with infinite scrolling.
  • Hiding the search box.
  • User interface concerns.
Recent reviews
This is a good improvement to the Hacker News site. My only bug I've notice is when HackerNews has the "Applications are open for YC Summer 2022", the banner at the bottom blocks off the "More" button and it prevents users from going to the following page.
by Francis So, 2022-02-07

Commenting with this extension is currently broken-- I had to disable it for now. It'd be great to get a fix!
by Peter Conerly, 2017-02-17

It hides the search box.
by Alexei Zakharov, 2016-09-06
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Extension safety

Risk impact

HackerNew requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

HackerNew has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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