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

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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?

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

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

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).

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

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.

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