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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Extension stats

By: Tom Moor

View on Chrome Web Store

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

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

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 22463 ▼ 2

Other rankings

#110 in News & Weather #99 in direct link keyword 12 ▼ 2 #117 in hacker keyword 21 ▲ 1

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Not available on Edge

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Extension 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

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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.