hckr news

Add functionality to news.ycombinator.com and hckrnews.com

hckr news: Enhance Your Experience on Hacker and hckr News

'hckr news' is a Google Chrome extension designed to improve your user experience on news.ycombinator.com and hckrnews.com. It introduces several functionalities, including the ability to highlight new comments, distinct identification of new comments on hckrnews.com, and collapsible threads following Alexander Kirk's model. This extension aims to streamline your interaction with these platforms by offering a more intuitive interface.

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Extension stats

By: https://hckrnews.com

Users: 851

-16

Rating: 4.59

(17)

Version: 2.0 (Last updated: 2020-01-07)

Creation date: 2020-01-07

Size: 53.40K

URLs: Website

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 32,803 ▼ 306

Other rankings

#956 in News & Weather ▲ 55

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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Pros

Great extension overall
Works well on Windows
New comment highlighting is useful

Cons

Highlighting new comments sometimes breaks
Does not work on Linux for some users
Issues with duplicate fold buttons

Most mentioned

Highlighting new comments
Fold buttons issue
Functionality varies between OS

User reviews

Highlighting new comments doesn't work anymore.. when it worked it was a great extension!

Nick H., 2021-11-07

The new comment highlighting functionality recently broke (within the past day or so). EDIT 2016-07-13: The new comment highlighting works again. However, now there are two fold buttons due to the recent addition of a fold button to the default Hacker News site.

Robert Irelan, 2016-06-24

Works on Windows, but not on Linux. At the very least, I'm not seeing the collapse buttons.

Jeriel Jan Del Prado (jerieljan), 2016-03-27

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Extension safety

Risk impact

hckr news requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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