Ask HN: What are your go-to Hacker News enhancements?

guillaume8375 · on Nov 23, 2021

This extension: `https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news`

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

throw349v · on Nov 23, 2021

Was hopeful for this but it highlights every post with a gray bar and every new post with orange bar.

"hckr news" extension works faster (loading takes less time) and doesn't highlight all posts (the gray bar is distracting).

Also it doesn't have the refined-hacker-news limitation of resetting the highlighting after 3 days (sometimes I return to older threads later than that).

throw349v · on Nov 23, 2021

(I can't edit my reply)

In the refined-hacker-news extension is there a way to disable gray bar highlight and just keep the new post (orange) highlight?

azdle · on Nov 24, 2021

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 · on Nov 23, 2021

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 · on Nov 24, 2021

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

worth it for the blocklist alone.

alok-g · on Nov 24, 2021

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