Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#1

Post by tommoor » Mon, May 07, 2012, 11:59 AM UTC

I've been working on and off on a Chrome Extension for Hacker News, the extension focusses on improved usability rather than design. I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back to regular Hacker News. Give it a try, features include:

- Improved readability - Quick inline replies from comments page - Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames - Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user - Endless scrolling - Collapsible comment threads - Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer

Forks, improvements and comments welcome: https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew

Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome
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Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#2

Post by tommoor » Mon, May 07, 2012, 12:06 PM UTC

I've been working on and off on this for a little while, the extension focusses on improved usability rather than design. I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back to regular Hacker News. Give it a try, features include:

- Improved readability

- Quick inline replies from comments page

- Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames

- Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user (try filtering out negativity!)

- Endless scrolling

- Collapsible comment threads

- Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer

Forks, improvements and comments always welcome: https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#3

Post by driverdan » Mon, May 07, 2012, 12:08 PM UTC

Neat. I started working on a bookmarklet to improve HN last year called Hacker News Enhancement Suite:

https://github.com/driverdan/Hacker-News-Enhancement-Suite

I never got the code far enough to announce / release. The long term goal was to also make plugins.

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#4

Post by Fizzadar » Mon, May 07, 2012, 12:09 PM UTC

Just installed it - loving the added spacing, increased font sizes/etc; it makes far better use of the full screen.

I doubt I'll ever be uninstalling this :)

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#5

Post by driverdan » Mon, May 07, 2012, 12:14 PM UTC

Can you add privacy details? It looks like this is using a 3rd party service for social profile data.

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#6

Post by christiangenco » Mon, May 07, 2012, 12:16 PM UTC

Ooo, this is quite nice. I like all of the inline features you added (though inline comments aren't currently working for me --- scratch that, they were just really slow).

Nicely done! I predict, as with all HN re-themes, that someone will soon comment about how article density is less than on standard HN, so I took the liberty of adding it to your GitHub issues :)

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#7

Post by tommoor » Mon, May 07, 2012, 12:18 PM UTC

christiangenco wrote: post #6

Ooo, this is quite nice. I like all of the inline features you added (though inline comments aren't currently working for me --- scratch that, they were just really slow). Nicely done! I predict, as with all HN re-themes, that someone will soon comment about how article density is less than on standard HN, so I took the liberty of adding it to your GitHub issues :)

Haha, thankyou very much. Hopefully the endless scrolling takes away some of the pain of more readable titles ;-)

Re: Show HN: HackerNew for Chrome

#8

Post by tommoor » Mon, May 07, 2012, 12:24 PM UTC

driverdan wrote: post #5

Can you add privacy details? It looks like this is using a 3rd party service for social profile data.

Hey,

The extension queries Google's social graph API to gather information about users profiles - you can find details here: https://developers.google.com/social-graph/