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Work · July 18, 2023

Comments Owl for Hacker News

Highlight new comments, mute users & tweak UI on Hacker News

Comments Owl for Hacker News launched on July 18, 2023 with 85 votes, #988 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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What it does

Browser extension which makes it easer to follow comment threads on Hacker News across multiple visits, allows you to annotate and mute users, and other UI tweaks and mobile UX improvements

Download Comments Owl for Hacker News by J BUCHANAN & L.J BUCHANAN on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like…

Fixes most of my bugbears with HN — great work! Two feature requests: prominent user tagging (e.g. highlight selected users with a chosen color, something more obvious than just a note) and CloudKit sync for consistency across platforms. Fixes most of my bugbears with HN — great work! Two feature requests: prominent user tagging (e.g. highlight selected users with a chosen color, something more obvious than just a note) and CloudKit sync for consistency across platforms. List page changes: • Items with new comments are now marked as read if the user visits them in another tab • List page functionality now works for new items added the end when you hide an item • Item hiding features now…from apps.apple.com

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