Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?
I'm aware of some alternate web front-ends, and I've seen some tools on Show HN.
What are you using? What have you built? What would you like to use?
What are you using? What have you built? What would you like to use?
I am using Lipu[2], my in-house alternative HN interface, with the official HN interface for surfing.
I also made an userscript called `Unthirst Numbers` that removes karma points and user's karma to make it less addictive. I have not make this one public though.
[0]:https://gist.github.com/frabert/48b12088441f6195ea9292c2a5a7...
[1]:https://gist.github.com/frabert/48b12088441f6195ea9292c2a5a7...
There’s a quote that good design is not when there’s nothing left to add, but when there’s nothing to take away. HN follows this perfectly. Sure, I could have dark mode, previews, and notifications, but I’d lose elsewhere unless I built my own front-end.
A orangered envelope like Reddit would be convenient though if one gets a response
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
:root { color-scheme: light dark; }
* { background-color: revert !important; color: revert !important; font-size: revert !important; }
center { text-align: left !important; }
table#hnmain { width: 100% !important; }
It was originally written so that I could load all the titles and open tabs in the subway that would render when there was service at stops. Now wfh but still useful.
This addon keeps track of which comments you've seen in a given Hacker News thread, and then highlights the new comments when you return to the page.
https://github.com/python273/hn-index - CLI tool to search stories via regex, I use it to explore topics
I set up Shortcuts on iOS to respond to the following voice commands:
“Hacker News” opens up the main page in Safari.
“Hacker Ask” opens Ask HN.
“Hacker Show” opens up Show HN.
“Hacker Hack” opens up all new submissions (surprisingly interesting & high quality).
I use these regularly, daily.
I also have a bookmarklet to quickly toggle between https://hw.leftium.com and the original version.
Then I installed the Refined Hacker News extension: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
I use two services to get notified about replies to my posts/comments: