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Products that do what Classifier and browser extension to detect rule violating HN comments does
I love HN, but lately I have been sick of reading the same dismissive criticisms over and over again. Along with political arguments that have been litigated to death, people's issues with smooth scrolling on blogs, etc. Many of these comments do not get flagged for whatever reason. So I made a service to automatically classify whether comments violate (a modified form of) the HN guidelines automatically. In addition there's a Chrome extension to collapse these comments (if they violate your score thresholds) so you don't have to read them too. You can also just watch guideline violating…
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HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been…
Jul 2026 · github.com
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Little chrome extension I made to collapse comments on HN, feel free to use it if you want.
2014 · github.com
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We’re George and Ann, and want to share a Hacker News specific browser extension that we have been working on. We all love the rich discussions in HN, but navigating long posts with multiple threads can sometimes be challenging. You get lost in the depth and breadth of the discussion. There are a few AI-based summarization tools, but they typically focus on summarizing the article rather than the comments, and thus miss the essence of threaded discussions. So, we built Hacker News Companion, a browser extension that makes it easy to navigate discussions and understand diverse viewpoints…
2024 · github.com
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2011 · chrome.google.com
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2016 · comments.network
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2021 · chrome.google.com
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2019 · hncynic.leod.org
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2018 · github.com
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2020 · github.com
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2014 · chrome.google.com
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Hello! I built this to solve a personal problem of where I didn't want to wade down large chains of HackerNews comment threads in order to get the key takeaways from the discussions. I built this Chrome extension, which supports both OpenAI and Ollama(local LLMs) to summarize comments and display the summary within Chrome's sidepanel. It's open source as you can see from the link, feedback appreciated!
2024 · github.com
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Mar 2026 · github.com
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I scraped every Show HN from the last 12 months (41,301 posts) plus the full comment tree of every launch with 10+ comments, ~100k comment timestamps, all from the Algolia HN API. The median launch gets 2 points and 0 comments. For launches that do get traction, half the comments they'll ever get arrive within 7.2 hours and 90% within 26, and the top decile decays on the same clock as everyone else. Vote timestamps aren't public, so comment timing is the attention proxy; caveats are in the post. Everything reproduces from the repo with one command…
Jul 2026 · jonno.nz
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My first python app, it displays posts from hacker news that is tagged under "Show HN"...
2013 · showhnapp.herokuapp.com
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2018 · hn.textalytics.io
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2020 · hacknotescenter.com
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2010 · chrome.google.com
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I prepared a nice snippet that interactively sorts HN news feed on the main page https://news.ycombinator.com/news. Works on Chrome. Check this out! $$('.athing, .athing + tr').map((tr, i, all) => [tr, all[i+1]]).filter(a => a[0].className === 'athing').map(all => [all, parseInt(($$('a', all[1])[3] || {innerText:'0'}).innerText.split(' ')[0]) || -1]).sort((a,b) => a[1] - b[1]).forEach(all => $$('table.itemlist tbody')[0].prepend(all[0][1]) || $$('table.itemlist tbody')[0].prepend(all[0][0]) )
2019
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HN has been a destination on the Web for me recently, but I've had trouble really _getting into_ it. I realized that was because there wasn't an intuitive way for me to browse through articles, comments and authors. I started working on a GreaseMonkey script for myself and, as I got into it, decided I would share it with others who may be interested. SuperHN keeps everything on one page and adds keyboard navigation. 'W' and 'S' browse through articles, 'A' and 'D' cycles through an article, its comments and poster. It also makes the front page a bit more readable. You can get Super Hacker…
2010
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Based on your feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874801) we've released a new version of the Hacker News Search. It's accessible through the search box in the footer of Hacker News. We hope you'll enjoy the new minimal design and the additional features. Feel free to give us your dream list of improvements :) ChangeLog: 2015-01-19 - Custom date range picker - Responsive design - New "comments[<>=]X" syntax to filter by number of comments - If the story doesn't have any URL, the link goes to the HN discussion - Here and there cosmetics improvements (less padding,…
2015 · hn.algolia.com
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Feb 2026 · hacker-backlinks.browserbox.io
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2020 · chrome.google.com
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Sometimes I want to make sure I read every comment in a Thread. Also comments that come in later. For example, when I posted my laptop comparison map I got a ton of great feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8405065 and I wanted to make sure I don't miss any of these. For this purpose, I made this visual representation: http://social.gnod.com/hn:8405065 I think you can grok what it shows. It simply templates all comments in a recursive way. Read items turn blue. You can mark interesting items and they turn green. I find it interesting to look at…
2014
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