Ask HN: Do you use any tools to improve your HN experience? • Hacker News Board

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

#21

Post by Leftium » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:45 AM UTC

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:

#22

Post by memorable » Thu, May 26, 2022, 3:50 AM UTC

bromuro wrote: post #17

I just browse from iPhone with the Octal app. The website is terrible!

Yeah, surfing HN on mobile can be difficult since buttons are small and the website isn't optimized for mobile.

#23

Post by python273 » Thu, May 26, 2022, 4:52 AM UTC

https://github.com/python273/hn-index - CLI tool to search stories via regex, I use it to explore topics

#24

Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 27, 2022, 2:45 AM UTC

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#25

Post by hjkl0 » Fri, May 27, 2022, 8:36 AM UTC

I use Octal for iOS.

#26

Post by gala8y » Fri, May 27, 2022, 4:34 PM UTC

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.