HackerNew

A chrome extension to add requested and missing functionality to hacker news including quick user profiles, inline replies, story filtering and more.

Usage

Install from the Chrome Webstore to receive automatic updates:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lgoghlndihpmbbgmbpjohilcphbfhddd

Features

• Improved readability design
• User following
• Retina screen support
• Quick inline replies
• Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames
• Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or username

Development

This code is old, it's not good, there are jQuery selectors all over the place and It's probably best rebuilt from scratch. You've been warned :)

License

HackerNew is released under the MIT license. It is simple and easy to understand and places almost no restrictions on what you can do with it. More Information

Credits

• Uses jQuery hover intent plugin by Brian Cherne
• Entypo pictograms by Daniel Bruce
• Form styles from Twitter Bootstrap