HACKER Q&A
📣 porker

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?


  👤 guillaume8375 Accepted Answer ✓
This extension: `https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news`

Funnily, I’ve just discovered it here: `https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29314560`


👤 azdle
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.


👤 throw349v
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
https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl

worth it for the blocklist alone.


👤 alok-g
My workaround is to find "hours ago" etc. on a webpage to find new comments.