Refined Hacker News
What is Refined Hacker News?
Add-on stats
- storage
- history
- tabs
- *://news.ycombinator.com/*
- *://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/*
- *://title.mihir.ch/*
- *://wayback.now.sh/*
- *://hn.algolia.com/*
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Add-on summary
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
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
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spammy, or outdated.- Provides essential tweaks for Hacker News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
- 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
- Loading or spinning wheel issue
- Developer responsiveness to bug reports
- Issue resolution via GitHub
- Enhanced user experience thanks to tweaks
Recent reviews
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Refined Hacker News requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Refined Hacker News has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.