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Life & fun · April 24, 2026

HNswered – watches for replies to your Hacker News posts and comments

Notifies you when someone replies to your Hacker News posts and comments. - adam-s/HNswered

HNswered – watches for replies to your Hacker News posts and comments launched on April 24, 2026 with 30 votes, #943 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

HNswered is a tool that monitors Hacker News for replies to your posts and comments. It alerts users when someone responds to their submissions, eliminating the need to manually check back on discussions. The service is designed for active Hacker News participants who want to stay informed about conversation activity without constant manual checking. It's available as open source on GitHub.

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From the sources

HNswered is a small Chrome side panel for Hacker News replies. Set your HN username once. HNswered watches the public stories and comments you have authored, surfaces direct replies in a local inbox, and keeps an unread badge in the toolbar. No HN login. No server. No write access. Just public HN data, matched locally. One simple idea: every reply on HN points at its parent. HNswered remembers what you wrote and watches public comments for replies to those. flowchart LR A["your HN username"] --> B["items you wrote"] C["public HN comments"] --> D{"reply to<br/>one of yours?"} B -.-> D D -- yes --> E["your inbox"] D -- no --> F["ignore"] Loading That's it. No login, no server, no backend you…from github.com

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