HipsterNews

DesignerNews in your HackerNews so you can browse while you browse.

HipsterNews - Browse HackerNews like DesignerNews

HipsterNews is a Chrome extension created by Matt Milosavljevic (@mmilo) that modifies the appearance of HackerNews to resemble DesignerNews. With HipsterNews, you can seamlessly browse both platforms and enjoy the best of both worlds.
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Extension stats

Users: 141
-1
Rating: 4.60
(20)
Version: 0.5 (Last updated: 2013-07-04)
Creation date: 2013-07-03
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Size: 70.33K

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Extension summary

HipsterNews is an extension that makes HackerNews (news.ycombinator.com) look more like DesignerNews (news.layervault.com). It’s created and maintained by Matt Milosavljevic, you can find him as @mmilo on Twitter.

User reviews

Great styling for a great site
by A Google user, 2013-06-26

It's awesome, but could you please open-source the code and put it in GitHub so I can fork it and fix some annoying things? Thanks!
by Raitis Stengrevics, 2013-04-01

Please remove the padding between the title bar and actual news as it only takes up space. (delete <tr style="height:10px"></tr>)
by Aleksander Gregorka, 2013-02-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

HipsterNews requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

HipsterNews has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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