Hacker News - Show Links

Hacker News - Show Links

Toggle to show just comments that have links

What is Hacker News - Show Links?
Hacker News - Show Links is a Chrome extension that allows users to easily toggle and hide comments without embedded links in Hacker News. It also provides additional features such as changing default sorting, opening links in new tabs, and highlighting visited links.
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By: boomeasy
Users: 7 ▼ -1
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2015-09-27)
Creation date: 2015-09-26
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/*
Size: 14.46K
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Summary

Adds an item to the hacknews menu called "LinksOnly" which shows you how many links are found in the comment section for an entry and when clicked, toggles hiding comments that don't have links embedded in them.

Other things it does: *)changes default sorting for search to "By Date" *) makes all links in comments and links to articles on the front page open in a new tab. *) highlites links in yellow and visited links in pink

source code at: https://github.com/boomeasy/hnlinks

User reviews
merci @wiwer77
by Wiwer 77 Wiwer 77, 2015-09-28
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Safety
Risk impact

Hacker News - Show Links is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hacker News - Show Links has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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