The best Hacker News extension, making HN quicker and more useful since 2012.

Latest Version

Version
1.3.2
Update
April 20, 2021
Size
209KiB
Developer
Category
Users
1,000+
Rating
4.31373 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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HackerNew Extension

Once you install this extension you'll never be able to go back to regular Hacker News, featuring:

- Improved readability design
- Retina screen support
- User following
- Super fast inline replies
- Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames
- Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user
- Endless scrolling
- Collapsible comment threads
- Direct link to Google Cache version
- Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer


HackerNew is open source - forks and improvements are welcome:
https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "HackerNew", "version": "1.3.2", "description": "The best Hacker News extension, making HN quicker and more useful since 2012.", "background": { "page": "background.html" }, "icons": { "48": "images/icon-48.png", "128": "images/icon-128.png" }, "manifest_version": 2, "web_accessible_resources": [ "images/karma.png", "images/follow.png", "images/unfollow.png", "images/loading.gif", "images/loading-light.gif", "images/icons.png", "images/icon.png", "images/arrow-up.png", "images/arrow-down.png" ], "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [ "http://news.ycombinator.com/*", "http://news.ycombinator.org/*", "http://hackerne.ws/*", "https://news.ycombinator.com/*" ], "css": [ "forms.css", "hn.css" ], "js": [ "js/libs/jquery-1.7.1.min.js", "js/libs/jquery.hoverIntent.js", "js/libs/jquery.autogrow.js", "js/libs/twitter.text.js", "js/hn.js" ] } ]}
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User reviews

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Francis So (ID: 000000c333fc9149) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 02/07/2022 This is a good improvement to the Hacker News site. My only bug I've notice is when HackerNews has the "Applications are open for YC Summer 2022", the banner at the bottom blocks off the "More" button and it prevents users from going to the following page.

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Peter Conerly (ID: 000000eb7534e242) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 02/17/2017 Commenting with this extension is currently broken-- I had to disable it for now. It'd be great to get a fix!

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Alexei Zakharov (ID: 000000f348729d2d) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 12/13/2016 It hides the search box.

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Jim Bergman (ID: 00000062d3410e3f) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/25/2016 HackerNews is much better with this extension. Thanks for recently adding support for HN's native thread collapsing.

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Kevan Benson (ID: 0000008bef0f5e33) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/19/2016 With the recent Hacker News changes that allow collapsing threads (and remembering collapsed threads through reloads for a period) I decided to try Hacker News without this extension again for a while. I just decided that's not going to work for me. After a few years of use, I really like the look and feel of this extension, and the popup info, and I can't go without them any more. My only complaints are: * Sometimes getting the footer with search to pop up is problematic, even when I'm hovering the cursor at the bottom. A more definitive way to raise that footer would be welcome. * Since HN has its own thread collapse now, it makes sense to remove the version here so it's not confusing.