HackerNew

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

HackerNew: The Ultimate Chrome Extension for Hacker News

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

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.31

(51)

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

Creation date: 2021-04-20

Size: 214.02K

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

URLs: Privacy policy

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 23,251

Other rankings

#104 in News & Weather ▲ 2 #133 in hacker keyword 11 ▼ 3 #178 in direct link keyword 21 ▲ 5

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

User 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.

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!

Peter Conerly, 2017-02-17

It hides the search box.

Alexei Zakharov, 2016-09-06

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Extension safety

Risk impact

HackerNew requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

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Risk likelihood analysis details

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