Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

#1

Post by 8organicbits » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:08 PM UTC

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?

Re: Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

#2

Post by memorable » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:26 PM UTC

Favicons for HN[0] is a userscript that I use to add favicons next to the link. I used the improved one though.[1]

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...

[2]: https://lipu-flax.vercel.app

Re: Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

#3

Post by Akronymus » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:37 PM UTC

http://www.hnreplies.com/ This is pretty much the only tool I use.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

#4

Post by ppqq » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:49 PM UTC

Re: Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

#5

Post by riidom » Wed, May 25, 2022, 1:57 PM UTC

Dark Reader and a bunch of lines of CSS via Stylus, functionally I'm fine with it.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

#6

Post by Havoc » Wed, May 25, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

I don’t see much of a need - hn is pretty clean and lightweight.

A orangered envelope like Reddit would be convenient though if one gets a response

Re: Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

#7

Post by leephillips » Wed, May 25, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

The “Refined Hacker News” extension for Chromium-based browsers.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

#8

Post by mandeepj » Wed, May 25, 2022, 2:56 PM UTC

I use HN enhancement suite

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

Re: Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

#9

Post by julianeon » Wed, May 25, 2022, 2:57 PM UTC

Kind of.

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.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience?

#10

Post by corobo » Wed, May 25, 2022, 3:10 PM UTC

I use HN RSS in my feed reader to see replies to my comments. I prefer RSS over email alerts because a) get out of my inbox lol b) I don't get the urge to respond in real-time as I don't use the feed reader as frequently as email

https://hnrss.org/