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Lots of nice tweaks, but the most important is missing: the ability to move the collapse comment buttons (`[-]`) to the left of commenters' usernames. Doing this makes the collapse buttons all aligned with each other, making them far easier to click in succession. "Comments Owl for Hacker News" extension does this I believe.
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All day long, I read about people vibe coding, so I decided to open my mind and try it out myself and see if I could do some sort of mix between my own skills as a life long web developer and whatever the kids are doing these days. Mostly because I have a strong belief that AI itself won't take our jobs away, but people who know AI will. What I found out is that I'm never going back to a world where I don't integrate…
This is super nice, thank you for including an AI disclosure. I would probably normally avoid something like this bc I would be considered by how much code oversight there is. Very nice to know that it's overseen properly by a human. Installed it and it's quite nice!!! great work :) It would also be nice to be able to hide the checkbox it adds to the homepage. also disabling show focus box doesnt actually seem to wor…
This is fixed and being pushed now. Thanks!
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What features would you welcome?
- Better formatting for text: (1) bullet points (2) markdown-like links (3) Slightly different background for code. - More "sub-reddits". We already have Ask/Show HN. We probably can add a couple more to keep everything organized. - Option to auto-collapse comments threads deeper than X levels by default. When they are all open by default like today, only the top comment and its children get more of the eyeballs.
It would be nice if HN just put the unstyled text in the page and then used JS to render it, but I'm sure there would be complaints about that too.
This is pretty darn cool. i've not yet seen any mention of one particular quirk so will point it out: on Firefox it flashes between "normal" and "upgraded" mode pretty starkly (A) when switching pages and (B) when tapping "add comment" (which is apparently done via page reload rather than the HN API). i've no clue whether an extension/app has any influence over the timing of that so cannot suggest how it might be res…
Dark mode!
* personal ability to mute/block any account
* BONUS: and/or delegate above decision to list-providing service at given externally-hosted URL
* intelligently autowrap text of long lines, like its 2026 (heck like 1997)
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Out of interest, why do you suppose that?
Oh, I had thought that when dang said somethings took 15 years and pow they happened, maybe my interpretation was that dark mode is definitely something which can occur within the future in a similar fashion.
my top wishlist of HN features: * personal ability to mute/block any account * BONUS: and/or delegate above decision to list-providing service at given externally-hosted URL * intelligently autowrap text of long lines, like its 2026 (heck like 1997)
Plenty of browser plugins that do this. I like HN Comments Owl.
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"Minimalist" in 2026 is different than what it used to be in the '90s.
Of course, and part of my reason for being brought onto the team full time is to explore ways we can develop HN for the future. That doesn't mean that every 3rd-party HN project represents a feature that should be added to the core HN UI.
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All the features I've added to this extension. But if you want to pick one: Inline replies. Right now, I have to do a ton of magic to make that happen in order to work around your auth flow. Namely, pulling the auth token out of the other page and then having to keep track of it in session storage. I could delete a whole lot of code if that was just built in.
By inline replies do you mean you click 'reply' and then a textbox opens in place? The browser extension I wrote years ago, and which tomhow and I use for moderation, does this. I feel guilty about not having shared it a long time ago, but there just has never been time. Now that LLMs are starting to let me do things I've wanted to do for years, there's a chance I'll actually get to it before the sun dies.
Please tell us you're not going to start vibe-coding HN.