Readable Hacker News Comments
By: PearsHaveLand
Improves readability of Hacker News comments by slightly increasing text size and capping the maximum line width.
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Manifest V2 Add-on
- By:
- PearsHaveLand
- Daily users:
- -
- Rating:
- 5.00 (1)
- Version:
- 1.0 Last updated: 2021-01-30
- Version code:
- 5173374
- Creation date:
- 2021-01-29
- Risk:
- Low risk impact Low risk likelihood
- Content scripts matches:
- news.ycombinator.com
- news.ycombinator.com
- Size:
- 9.04KB
- Email:
- pe*****@protonmail.com
- URLs:
- Website
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Firefox Add-ons Store
- Data ingested on:
- 2026-06-19
- Compare stats and ranking:
- Readable Hacker News Comments vs Subtle Improvements for Hacker News
- Readable Hacker News Comments vs Refined Hacker News
- Readable Hacker News Comments vs Hacker News Tweaks
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User Reviews
It works exactly as described. This is one of those extensions you didn't realize you needed until you see the end results.
Isse: It does not work well with 'Refined Hacker News' (RHN). Because the purpose of this extension is to reduce the width of paragraphs, it also reduced the width on RHN's inline commenting box (when replying to a comment). It created scrolling problems, forcing me to disable this extension.
This is not Readable's fault. It does exactly what it's suppose to do. There's just a conflict between two extensions.
by ju*****, 2023-01-11
Is Readable Hacker News Comments Safe?
Risk impact
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Readable Hacker News Comments requires very minimum permissions.
Risk impact analysis details
- High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Risk likelihood
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Readable Hacker News Comments has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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