Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

Post by latchkey » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #59

latchkey wrote: post #55

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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.

Post by librasteve » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 9:08 PM UTC

Post by latchkey » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 9:13 PM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #57

latchkey wrote: post #46

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The orange box is to mark where you are currently focused. If you use the keyboard navigation (keys: j/k), it really helps.

It's distracting for those who don't use hjkl so might be good to have it as an option.

Post by smcleod » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 9:15 PM UTC

latchkey wrote: post #10

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #2

I use refined Hacker news Extension. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#highlights It might be beneficial to tell me what the difference between these two can be? A lot of the features from my first glance (I can be totally wrong though) are within HN refined. I would really appreciate a short summary of differences. Personally I am really happy by HN refined though so kudos to @plibither8

Refined hasn't received an update in 4 years. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/135... I used refined for years as well. Great product, but the underlying code was meh, and the author abandoned it. If you're using refined today, you're experiencing a lot of bugs as the HN DOM has changed over time. I maintained my own fork for a long time but finally motivated myself to try out AI assisted codi…

Post by satvikpendem » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

Fraterkes wrote: post #48

latchkey wrote: post #42

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Of course I don't, but if it helps me do trivial tasks so that I can focus on other things, I might as well use it.

I think it's fine if you find the design of the site a trivial thing that others shouldn't focus on, but it kinda begs the question why you didn't just have the ai generate a much simpler page. Why have the ai generate all this fluff when you just want to show of what you've made? You (rightfully!) care about not wasting your own time, why waste ours?