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It seems the software productivity has exploded in the agent era. However, do we treat every point of daily experience seriously enough? Do we recognize such pains actively and try to eliminate them (often easy), or just tolerate infinitely?
I think the amount of upvotes you’re getting here suggests that it might be worth building a proper browser extension for this! Would you be interested in making one?
Open to it. For now I’m going to keep it as a userscript and build out some of the interesting ideas people have suggested here. If it keeps growing, a proper extension would definitely make sense.
This is slick. 2 things. 1. If you name your script with the extension .user.js it is easier to click on to automatically install at least with tampermonkey. 2. When I went to this link from the main page, on mobile I had to scroll to the right to see the (-) to minimize because the sidebar was too large: https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-nee... It may make some sense to start minimized so I ca…
is this better than using a chrome extension? i guess people need to have tampermonkey installed and so thats a slightly higher barrier to entry? i wonder if chrome would be interested in "sherlocking" userscripts so that we can distribute non security nightmare code easier.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12898366
Note: I took it down when it seemed it could degrade HN quality if people used it as normal comments, but yours is great since it's the opposite target/usage
Firefox has a new Split View that's useful for this, but you still have to left click and select open in split view (M) then click the link. You also used to be able on some browsers to craft a link that was href="tab1.html|tab2.html", no idea if that's still a thing or if it was limited to "home page" setting.
I generally open the HN comment link, then click the article link, read it, then click back to read the comments.
I'll see if this split view feature works better for me though, but I think I'd prefer a horizontal split instead of vertical.
hehe, I opened chatgpt and the little button blocks the three dots
I'm working on a fix, but in the meantime you can add `@exclude https://chatgpt.com/*` to the userscript header.
EDIT: Added this to the v1.4.0 release just now.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hacker-news-saved-y...
This is great and is also something that I've always had an issue with. What I do now is open the HN comments, and then when I'm ready to look at the link + comments, right-click on the title and Open in Split View.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hacker-news-saved-y...
I feel ya. I'm always middle clicking twice, story and comments. This shouldn't be a script (no offense, great job!). It should be built into the browsers!
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hacker-news-saved-y...