Hacker News +

Stylish Hacker News.
What is Hacker News +?
Hacker News + is a Chrome extension that brings a stylish and customized design to Hacker News. It offers a dark mode switcher and improves commenting layouts. Stay up-to-date with Hacker News while enjoying an enhanced browsing experience.

Extension stats

By: Jarques
Users: 214 ▼ -1
Rating: 4.36 (25)
Version: 2.0 (Last updated: 2023-05-28)
Creation date: 2013-08-02
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 466.94K

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Extension summary

With the recent changes to Google's applications, I thought it'd be nice to get Hacker News to fit in nicely.

Any questions / comments contact me on Twitter: @jarques

Update in v2.0:

  • Update to manifest v3
  • Dark mode switcher
  • Remove hot key support
  • Improved commenting layouts

User reviews

Looks awesome but would be nice if the link colours in dark mode would be more readable. Aside that nothing to complain about.
by Malachi Soord, 2023-06-13

Thank you for the updates @jarques!!!!
by Ciaran Rooney, 2023-06-05

Really beautiful and overall one of the best modifications to Hacker News. In the end though, I had to uninstall it if only because the comment threading gets really weird with this extension. If that was fixed, I would be more than happy to reinstall and rate 5 stars.
by Navarr Barnier, 2015-03-11
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hacker News + requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hacker News + has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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