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A redesigned web interface for Hacker News.
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Enhance your Hacker News experience with a beautiful, clean, modern design that's fully customizable.
Once installed, this extension will simply apply the new look and features to existing Hacker News pages, without you having to do anything.
All current features on Hacker News are supported, this extension simply builds upon the existing interface to offer many improvements, including:
✔ Themes – light, classic HN, slate, dark, black
✔ Fonts – sans, serif, change font size
✔ Styles – adjust column width, line height, justify text
✔ History – quickly jump to stories you've previously viewed
✔ Comments – inline reply + many other improvements
✔ Index – switch between list / table view, customize columns
✔ Profiles – new design with tabs, clickable links etc
✔ Accounts – all HN account features supported
✔ Switch back to the old design (if needed) with one click
✔ More improvements planned for upcoming releases!
If you have any questions, need help or have any suggestions, please get in touch: [email protected]
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This extension is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or sponsored by Y Combinator.
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Updates:
v1.14
- Fixed bugs due to HTML changes on HN
- Fixed score not being shown for your own comments
v1.12
- Fixed bugs due to HTML changes on HN
v1.11
- Fixed favorites not being saved
- Fade visited links + added setting to toggle
- Added setting to toggle showing icons on hover
- Added prev / next to comment menu
v1.1
- Bug fixes
v1.0
- First version
Latest reviews
- (2023-09-03) Abhisek Padhi: Makes reading HN comfortable and easy on the eyes.
- (2023-08-10) Ben Finch: Excellent! I couldn't stand hacker news before this.
- (2023-07-06) Daniel Castillo: Why the theme fails to load when I press the "More" button? It happens to me in Chrome and Edge.
- (2023-06-30) Kris S.: Very nice looking, and good amount of customization available. I would love to see more features added, like vertical lines that link parent and child comments, and button that opens the link and comments at the same time (like Reddit Enhancement Suite l+c button)
- (2023-06-06) Zion Yang: I like it!
- (2023-04-24) paranoid: simply does everything it needs to do
- (2023-04-10) J K: Works well on the front page of HN, but often when I browse to the second page it will just render the native HN page inside of a frame, which defeats the purpose of using this extension. Reloading the page doesn't fix it. So for me, this extension is only useful for browsing the front page of HN.
- (2023-03-16) Nikolay Kolev: I have the paid version and the extension is broken since November 2022 and the developer does not care to fix it.
- (2023-02-21) Hursh Soni: WOAH, first time reviewing an extension. This is just awesome!!
- (2023-01-22) Cameron Pak: absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Inspirational to a fellow Chrome ext dev!
- (2023-01-09) Byte XD: I loved this extension since the first minute of using it. I had been using dark mode up until today, and somehow ended up trying multiple extensions because I wanted an easier way to read direct comments, one after another. Although this extension doesn't offer that, it has other features that I didn't know I needed. I never realized that it's somewhat painful to read HN discussions - I kept reading them because the content is amazing. However since using this extension I'm reminded how important it is to have a simple and clean UI. Features I love: - Adjustable theme, from light to dark, with 5 preset themes - Adjustable font size, line spacing, and content area width (I didn't anticipate how much more readable HN becomes thanks to these, and how much more enjoyable the experience is now) - Very clean and intuitive interface - Bookmark submissions and comments - Option to switch back to classic view
- (2022-11-14) 伍玖: Version (v1.12) is not working again today (tried on Edge & Chrome).
- (2022-09-29) JiSeop Han: its not working except comments
- (2022-09-21) Aade: Good job, -but links to visited sites should be dimmed-. Edit: fixed, +1
- (2022-09-13) Zdravko Ćurić: Awesome extension! Can you add like different background color for each reply level on comments so it's easier to track conversation? :)
- (2022-09-09) Serda Simus (iamserda): Fantastic Job!
- (2022-09-09) rodrigo joordan torres lopez: Gran extension,Felicidades por el trabajo
Latest issues
- (2022-09-29, v:1.11) Martino di Filippo: Broken homepage
The homepage is currently not working, as it stops rendering at the "1." before the first story. From the JS console: Error handling response: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'indexOf') at drawStories (chrome-extension://dabkegjlekdcmefifaolmdhnhdcplklo/content.js:1:44067) at setupPage (chrome-extension://dabkegjlekdcmefifaolmdhnhdcplklo/content.js:1:4082) at setup (chrome-extension://dabkegjlekdcmefifaolmdhnhdcplklo/content.js:1:2562) at chrome-extension://dabkegjlekdcmefifaolmdhnhdcplklo/content.js:1:2053 news.ycombinator.com/:1 Error handling response: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'indexOf') at drawStories (chrome-extension://dabkegjlekdcmefifaolmdhnhdcplklo/content.js:1:44067) at chrome-extension://dabkegjlekdcmefifaolmdhnhdcplklo/content.js:1:169108