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24 alternatives to Flat Hacker News
Hide deeply threaded comments in hacker news.
Flat Hacker News is a browser tool that hides deeply threaded comments on Hacker News, simplifying the reading experience by removing nested comment threads. It is designed for Hacker News users who prefer a flatter… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Flat Hacker News launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
- 3HN
2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · jsomers.net · its alternatives →
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2020 · hn.luap.info · its alternatives →
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Highlight new comments, mute users & tweak UI on Hacker News
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · deephn.org · its alternatives →
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2011 · hnlike.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · coxomb.github.io · its alternatives →
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Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News Without News: A curated newsletter of interesting things.
2023 · hn.build-your-own.org · its alternatives →
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I've been working on and off on a Chrome Extension for Hacker News, the extension focusses on improved usability rather than design. I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back to regular Hacker News. Give it a try, features include: - Improved readability - Quick inline replies from comments page - Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames - Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user - Endless scrolling - Collapsible comment threads - Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer Forks, improvements and comments…
2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News commenting improvement extension for Google Chrome - j-clark/hacked_hacker_news
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · hn-button.com · its alternatives →
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Privacy-preserving Firefox extension linking to Hacker News discussion; built with Bloom filters and WebAssembly - jstrieb/hackernews-button
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · hnwho.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · comments.network · its alternatives →
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A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Hacker News
2022 · modernhn.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →
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