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24 alternatives to Hacker News Comments Notifier for Chrome
Subscribe to HN articles to get comment notifications
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hacker News Comments Notifier for Chrome launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · hnreplies.com · its alternatives →
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HN Notifier is a chrome extension that shows the number of unread comments to your HackerNews thread. One of the issues with HackerNews is that it is difficult to know when someone has replied to your post or comment, thus by missing an opportunity to continue the conversation. - meanands/hn-notifie
2022 · github.com · 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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I have a dedicated HN tab that I come back to and reload multiple times a day to see whats new and hot. I wrote a Chrome Extension to: - quickly scan new articles since my last reload - quickly scan highly discussed articles - open actual articles and discussions in a new tab This links to the source code. The chrome extension is linked at the bottom of the github page. Note: - This extension only operates on the HN front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/news) - The first time you reload the HN front page after installing the extension all articles will get highlighted.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chrome extension that injects a button to return to HN
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · 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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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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The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
23d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →
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Machine learning engineer. Five years at Uber. PhD in Management Science & Engineering, Stanford.
2011 · mfairley.com · 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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2010 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Chrome extension that shows you how many times a website has been upvoted on HackerNews.
2015 · jitbit.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · comments.network · its alternatives →
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2014 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Get Slack notifications for HN mentions
2022 · hn-slack-bot.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Curated daily list of blog posts posted on Hacker News. Click to read HackerNews blogs newsletter, by Paul, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
2020 · hnblogs.substack.com · its alternatives →
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A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Hacker News
2022 · modernhn.com · its alternatives →
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I made a little website with a server that collects only HN submissions with > 500 upvotes chronologically. https://hn.moritz.pm/ It's quite simple because I wanted to learn from the project. But I think it's useful, to get a summary of what was important over the last days. The UI is almost identical to the HN frontpage, you can click on the comments to view the thread and on the username to see the profile. The rest of the cards takes you to the submitted URL.
2024 · hn.moritz.pm · its alternatives →
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Shows if the current URL is being discussed on Hacker News
2019 · jitbit.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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