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Show HN: Hacker News User Information on Hover

13 points by system2 3y ago

Hello friends, It probably exists or someone made it before but I couldn't find it so I created one myself. I also noticed people check each other's profiles often so this might come in handy. Screenshot of the usage (ignore the red arrow it doesn't come with the extension): https://imgur.com/a/gvJ93ne https://imgur.com/a/gvJ93ne This Chrome extension does one simple thing. If you want to check the user information listed in the profile including username, creation date, karma, and about. You just need to hover over the username. I was clicking on users before and it was a waste of time I thought and created this simple extension. The delay is set to 0.5 seconds so when you move your cursor over users while navigating you don't send requests to the HN by accident. Cheers.

de6u99er 3y ago
That's great. Thank you!
asadalt 3y ago
This looks great! I would recommend putting this in chrome store. It's relatively simple to do so.
- system2 3y ago
  AFAIK I need google developer profile which costs money.
polygamous_bat 3y ago
Pretty cool, but please put your screenshot on the GitHub repo as well.
mgaunard 3y ago
I think this encourages judging comments by their author's reputation rather than their intrinsic value.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- ajcp 3y ago
  psh! Classic elitist, 1000+ karma comment.
cwales95 3y ago
Seems to work on Firefox for me so you may not need to write a firefox specific version!
mdaniel 3y ago
> It probably exists or someone made it before but I couldn't find it https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#readme https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#readme
moralestapia 3y ago
>If requested I will create a Firefox version. Please create a Firefox version.
- system2 3y ago
  Working on it.
cwales95 3y ago
From looking at the Hacker News API, you might be able to use that instead of scraping from the DOM: https://github.com/HackerNews/API#users https://github.com/HackerNews/API#users
gkbrk 3y ago
I do the opposite thing, I have a uBlock rule that hides Hacker News usernames from posts and comments. I added this rule in order to prevent any positive or negative biases I might have towards users. I believe it lets me discuss and agree/disagree with the content instead of the person talking about it.
mcint 3y ago
Speaking of checking people's profiles, on mouseover with Refined Hacker News [1] installed, I see you don't have a bio set up. [1]: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news I also have HackerSmacker [2] and Momento for Hacker News [3] user tagging. I've only really used Hacker Smacker to make a note to self about propensity for great contributions, and probably installed Momento with expanding that intent in mind. [2]: https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker [3]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/momento-for-hacker-news/ldamdlljpkkejoiohakbapncdjfolgfh https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/momento-for-hacker-...

13 points by system2 3y ago

de6u99er 3y ago

That's great. Thank you!

asadalt 3y ago

This looks great! I would recommend putting this in chrome store. It's relatively simple to do so.

system2 3y ago
AFAIK I need google developer profile which costs money.

polygamous_bat 3y ago

Pretty cool, but please put your screenshot on the GitHub repo as well.

mgaunard 3y ago

I think this encourages judging comments by their author's reputation rather than their intrinsic value.

deleted 3y ago
[deleted]
ajcp 3y ago
psh! Classic elitist, 1000+ karma comment.

cwales95 3y ago

Seems to work on Firefox for me so you may not need to write a firefox specific version!

mdaniel 3y ago

> It probably exists or someone made it before but I couldn't find it https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#readme https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#readme

moralestapia 3y ago

>If requested I will create a Firefox version. Please create a Firefox version.

system2 3y ago
Working on it.

cwales95 3y ago

From looking at the Hacker News API, you might be able to use that instead of scraping from the DOM: https://github.com/HackerNews/API#users https://github.com/HackerNews/API#users

gkbrk 3y ago

I do the opposite thing, I have a uBlock rule that hides Hacker News usernames from posts and comments. I added this rule in order to prevent any positive or negative biases I might have towards users. I believe it lets me discuss and agree/disagree with the content instead of the person talking about it.

mcint 3y ago

Speaking of checking people's profiles, on mouseover with Refined Hacker News [1] installed, I see you don't have a bio set up. [1]: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news I also have HackerSmacker [2] and Momento for Hacker News [3] user tagging. I've only really used Hacker Smacker to make a note to self about propensity for great contributions, and probably installed Momento with expanding that intent in mind. [2]: https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker [3]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/momento-for-hacker-news/ldamdlljpkkejoiohakbapncdjfolgfh https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/momento-for-hacker-...