What are your go-to Hacker News enhancements?

Question

I've been using the hckr news Chrome extension for 5+ years to highlight new comments since I last visited. Recently it's stopped highlighting them so I am looking for others.What are your go-to tools to enhance this site?

guillaume8375 · Accepted Answer

This extension: `https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news`Funnily, I&rsquo;ve just discovered it here: `https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29314560`

azdle · Answer

I wrote a greasemonkey script for keeping track of read posts: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/6955-hacker-freshThough, I don't even use it myself anymore, I just gave up caring if I've seen all the replies in a thread.

throw349v · Answer

This is exactly what I'm looking for as well!Someone please fix the "hckr news" extension, it worked great until it stopped working.I suspect recent changes in HN ("context" links etc) broke it.

krapp · Answer

https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owlworth it for the blocklist alone.

alok-g · Answer

My workaround is to find "hours ago" etc. on a webpage to find new comments.

What are your go-to Hacker News enhancements?

I've been using the hckr news Chrome extension for 5+ years to highlight new comments since I last visited. Recently it's stopped highlighting them so I am looking for others.
What are your go-to tools to enhance this site?

This extension: `https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news`
Funnily, I’ve just discovered it here: `https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29314560`

I wrote a greasemonkey script for keeping track of read posts: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/6955-hacker-fresh
Though, I don't even use it myself anymore, I just gave up caring if I've seen all the replies in a thread.

This is exactly what I'm looking for as well!
Someone please fix the "hckr news" extension, it worked great until it stopped working.
I suspect recent changes in HN ("context" links etc) broke it.

https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl
worth it for the blocklist alone.

My workaround is to find "hours ago" etc. on a webpage to find new comments.