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Products that do what HN Comments Owl does
Highlight new Hacker News comments, and other UX tweaks
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2021 · chrome.google.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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2016 · hnreplies.com
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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
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2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com
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http://mindovermatter.it/ Just a quick and dirty hack I did while learning Go and how to set up an EC2 server. A proof of concept for a feature I think it would be useful on HN. It often happens that I read the whole thread of comments for a discussion, and get back to it at a later time to see the updates. It's hard to see at a glance which comments are new and which ones I already read. The app uses cookies to record the last time you accessed a discussion thread, and modify the html in order to highlight the new comments (the ones added since your last GET of the page).…
2013
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Hi HN, This weekend I wrote an extension for Chrome/Chromium to show and/or highlight new and edited comments. This is what the home page looks like with the extension enabled: http://i.imgur.com/LguqO.png The comment count for a story is saved when that comments page is loaded. With comment highlighting enabled (it is by default), comments that are new or have been edited since you last loaded the comments page will be highlighted. http://i.imgur.com/WUgkT.png In that screenshot, the grey indicates a comment that has been edited and light blue indicates a comment that is new. These colors…
2011
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2013 · 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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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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2018 · hn.textalytics.io
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Hi HN, Sharing HN Insights, a webapp I built that highlights trending themes and summarizes discussion threads from the front page. This started earlier this week as a toy project to test out Gemini 3 Pro in aistudio. I found the POC useful, so I decided to productionize it. I've included the original seed prompt below: > Create an app that creates a summary of the comment threads for hacker news front page. The UX should be similar, but clicking the comments instead opens a summary. The summary is generated when clicked so it can gather new threads. To productionize, I used Claude Code and…
Nov 2025 · hn-insights.com
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2018 · 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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My first python app, it displays posts from hacker news that is tagged under "Show HN"...
2013 · showhnapp.herokuapp.com
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