A Hacker News extension for Chrome which changes lots of things.
- Completely new style
- Easy access to all pages
- Enhanced comment threads
- Collapsible comments
- Inline commenting
- Link to parent
- Display all comments on paginated threads
- Highlight the original poster
- Show and highlight new comments since you last view a thread
- Highlight links once clicked to more easily identify what you've recently visited
- Redirect back to the front page upon hitting an expired link
- Display how many times you've upvoted each user
- Graphs on polls
- Keyboard controls on index pages:
- j - Next item
- k - Previous item
- o - Open story
- l - Open story in a new tab
- p - View comments
- c - View comments in a new tab
- b - Open both the comments and the story in new tabs
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm
- Options page
- Put search in a better place + ajax auto-complete
- Do something with un-threaded comment lists (e.g. best comments)
- Make profiles prettier
- Allow user to highlight friends and make notes about users (ala RES)
- Show dead/grayed-out comments on mouse hover (or maybe a button)
- Test / make it work when user can see downvotes
MIT License, see LICENSE
Wayne Larson for hckrnews.com and permission to use code from his extension which displays new comments.
@jarques for his HN+ extension (https://github.com/jarquesp/Hacker-News--) which was used as a starting point for this project.
Thanks to Samuel Stern for the inline commenting.
Thanks to Vishnu Rajeevan for adding more keyboard shortcuts.
Thanks to Lewis Pollard for highlighting a story once you've opened it