refined-hacker-news

Tech stack & purpose

Refined Hacker News is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that enhances the user experience on Hacker News by adding interface tweaks and new features while preserving the site's minimalist design. The extension includes features such as replying to comments without leaving the page, keyboard navigation through items and comments, favoriting functionality, auto-refresh, story sorting and hiding, and hover-based previews of user and item information. The tech stack consists of JavaScript for the extension logic, with functionality built around the Hacker News website and API, and it draws inspiration from Sindre Sorhus's Refined GitHub extension. The project was created by an individual developer (plibither8) and is distributed under the MIT license.

Community & reference links

• issues page
• Refined GitHub
• Hacker News
• HN's leaderboard
• https://news.ycombinator.com/#polls

Languages

Contributors

• Mihir Chaturvedi337 commits
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• T0ast1 commits
• Colin Tinney1 commits
• Jon Stevens1 commits
• Joe1 commits
• Jerome V1 commits
• Zach Kanzler1 commits