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Life & fun · June 1, 2018

Chrome extension to open both link and discussion in new tabs on HN

Chrome extension to open both link and discussion in new tabs on HN launched on June 1, 2018 with 7 votes, #1,007 of 2,653 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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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…

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