Hacker News Enhancement Suite

Hacker News Enhanced.
What is Hacker News Enhancement Suite?
The 'Hacker News Enhancement Suite' is a Firefox Add-On, upgrading user interface and interactivity on the Hacker News platform. It introduces a fresh style, enables access to all pages, enhances comment threads, and showcases new comments since the last view. The extension also offers improved interaction with upvoted users, clickable links in self posts, user profiles, and includes keyboard controls for an efficient browsing experience.
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Add-on stats

Users: 642 ▼ -1
Rating: 4.52 (33)
Version: 1.6.0.3 (Last updated: 2023-01-01)
Creation date: 2017-11-16
Weekly download count: 3
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Size: 83.39K
URLs: Website

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# 3953 ▼ 29
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Hacker News UX (v2.0.3)
4.08 (24) 661
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Add-on summary

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Hacker News Enhancement Suite

A Hacker News extension for Firefox which changes lots of things.

Features

  • Completely new style
  • Easy access to all pages
  • Enhanced comment threads
    • Collapsible comments
    • Inline commenting
    • Link to parent
    • Display all comments on paginated threads
    • Highlight the original poster
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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Improves the user interface with eye-pleasing design
  • Provides additional tweaks and customizations for end-users
  • Maintains performance despite enhancements
Cons
  • Addon appears disabled in Firefox for some users
  • Comment pagination is broken
  • Inability to disable certain features renders the addon unusable
Most mentioned
  • Customization issues
  • Pagination problems
  • Overall positive impact on the HN experience
Recent reviews
The addon appears disabled (greyed out) for me on Firefox, so there's no customization available. But it does appear to be working.
by MaximilianKohler, 2024-10-01
by artwis, 2024-08-22
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by GanJingWorld, 2022-12-25
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Hacker News Enhancement Suite requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hacker News Enhancement Suite has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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