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Refined Hacker News

Refined Hacker News

✨ Browser extension that adds useful features and tweaks a few stuff on Hacker News to make the experience better... without changing the look and feel.

What is Refined Hacker News?
'Refined Hacker News' is a Firefox extension that brings small yet significant improvements to your browsing experience on Hacker News. It retains the original minimalist design but adds handy features and interface tweaks. Users can use keyboard mappings and other exciting features available with the extension. The component draws inspiration from Sindre Sorhus's Refined GitHub extension.
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Users: 483 ▼ -3
Rating: 4.80 (20)
Version: 22.12.17 (Last updated: 2022-12-17)
Creation date: 2019-06-01
Weekly download count: 4
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • history
  • tabs
  • *://news.ycombinator.com/*
  • *://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/*
  • *://title.mihir.ch/*
  • *://wayback.now.sh/*
  • *://hn.algolia.com/*
Size: 91.64K
URLs: Website
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Summary
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The minimalist design of Hacker News is best at offering news the way we like it. Yet there are a few small interface tweaks and additional features that can drastically improve our experience while browsing through items and comments which this extension implements.

Hopefully, in due course, a few of these tweaks can be implemented by Hacker News themselves. You can help too by emailing [email protected]!

Details regarding the features, such keyboard mappings can be viewed here: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#highlights

Inspired by Sindre Sorhus's extension Refined GitHub.

User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Provides essential tweaks for Hacker News
  • Allows easy blocking of certain features
  • Developer is super responsive to bug reports
  • Adds subtle touches to make HN easier to use
  • Improves user experience
Cons
  • Has loading issues as indicated by the spinning wheel
  • Extension sometimes forces links to open in a new tab
  • Front Page Story sorting bar not functioning well
  • Some features like 'Sorting by time' not working
Most mentioned
  • Loading or spinning wheel issue
  • Developer responsiveness to bug reports
  • Issue resolution via GitHub
  • Enhanced user experience thanks to tweaks
Recent reviews
by Victor Engmark, 2024-02-28
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Safety
Risk impact

Refined Hacker News is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Refined Hacker News if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

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

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