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I use refined Hacker news Extension. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#highlights https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#highlights

I use refined Hacker news Extension. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#highlights 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

latchkey 6mo ago
Refined hasn't received an update in 4 years. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/135#issuecomment-3795584312 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 coding and this is what came out of it. It isn't a port, it is a clean rewrite from the ground up. I took every feature that I enjoyed from refined, re-implemented it from scratch, with a totally different architecture that allows much more control over the DOM and runs a whole lot faster. I had AI write hundreds of of unit tests, so that we can make sure that bugs don't appear in the future. I also fixed a whole ton of edge cases along the way. The entire deployment, all the way to the browser stores, is fully automated with CI/CD, so that we know that the supply chain is safe. In other words, you might as well migrate. If there is something missing that you enjoyed, file an issue, or even better... a PR.
- smcleod 6mo ago
  I tried contacting the author to see if he would open source it but he's gone dark and doesn't seem to really exist on the Internet anymore. So I grabbed the source code and modernised it, added additional feature and it's what I've been using ever since. I haven't open sourced it out of respect for the original author however the software does not actually have any license that prevents it so I have been considering what the best approach might be (any ideas?). *Edit: Whoops! I was confusing refinedHN with modernHN (https://www.modernhn.com https://www.modernhn.com)
  - Leftium 6mo ago
    Are you referring to https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news? It's MIT-licensed open source. I've been using a fork (also MIT): https://github.com/alexferrari88/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/alexferrari88/refined-hacker-news
    - smcleod 6mo ago
      Whoops! I was confusing refinedHN with modernHN (https://www.modernhn.com https://www.modernhn.com)
  - latchkey 6mo ago
    Just use my extension?
    - smcleod 6mo ago
      Whoops! I was confusing refinedHN with modernHN (https://www.modernhn.com https://www.modernhn.com)
- Leftium 6mo ago
  I just tried switching from a slightly more updated fork of Refined Hacker News (2025)[1] One thing I miss is the orange mark identifying the OP of a post. [1]: https://github.com/alexferrari88/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/alexferrari88/refined-hacker-news
  - latchkey 6mo ago
    I have that in there. https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/blob/b84366d8d31059b579a84389da53340205fb064c/src/components/comment/init-comment-ux.ts#L80 https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/blob/b84...
    - Leftium 6mo ago
      Ah, I see it must be the bug mentioned in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695328 There was no [OP] label when I first reloaded this page, and now after replying, I am marked as the [OP]. edit: it seems the [OP] relies on a URL hash with the ID of the OP. However, this doesn't work for me because I don't navigate to HN posts from the HN site. I usually come from https://hn.leftium.com https://hn.leftium.com. (Or a page like https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/47694036 https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/47694036)
      - latchkey 6mo ago
        I'm so confused. Can you explain it to me a bit more clearly what you'd like to see? I literally just took the code from refined. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/ee7ef6d55ae15f26a5bf4123d738b249883f7798/src/features/comments-ui-tweaks.js#L29 https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/ee7ef...
        Leftium 6mo ago
        I opened an issue with screenshots: https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/issues/16 https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/issues/1...

latchkey 6mo ago

Refined hasn't received an update in 4 years. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/135#issuecomment-3795584312 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 coding and this is what came out of it. It isn't a port, it is a clean rewrite from the ground up. I took every feature that I enjoyed from refined, re-implemented it from scratch, with a totally different architecture that allows much more control over the DOM and runs a whole lot faster. I had AI write hundreds of of unit tests, so that we can make sure that bugs don't appear in the future. I also fixed a whole ton of edge cases along the way. The entire deployment, all the way to the browser stores, is fully automated with CI/CD, so that we know that the supply chain is safe. In other words, you might as well migrate. If there is something missing that you enjoyed, file an issue, or even better... a PR.

smcleod 6mo ago
I tried contacting the author to see if he would open source it but he's gone dark and doesn't seem to really exist on the Internet anymore. So I grabbed the source code and modernised it, added additional feature and it's what I've been using ever since. I haven't open sourced it out of respect for the original author however the software does not actually have any license that prevents it so I have been considering what the best approach might be (any ideas?). *Edit: Whoops! I was confusing refinedHN with modernHN (https://www.modernhn.com https://www.modernhn.com)
- Leftium 6mo ago
  Are you referring to https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news? It's MIT-licensed open source. I've been using a fork (also MIT): https://github.com/alexferrari88/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/alexferrari88/refined-hacker-news
  - smcleod 6mo ago
    Whoops! I was confusing refinedHN with modernHN (https://www.modernhn.com https://www.modernhn.com)
- latchkey 6mo ago
  Just use my extension?
  - smcleod 6mo ago
    Whoops! I was confusing refinedHN with modernHN (https://www.modernhn.com https://www.modernhn.com)
Leftium 6mo ago
I just tried switching from a slightly more updated fork of Refined Hacker News (2025)[1] One thing I miss is the orange mark identifying the OP of a post. [1]: https://github.com/alexferrari88/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/alexferrari88/refined-hacker-news
- latchkey 6mo ago
  I have that in there. https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/blob/b84366d8d31059b579a84389da53340205fb064c/src/components/comment/init-comment-ux.ts#L80 https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/blob/b84...
  - Leftium 6mo ago
    Ah, I see it must be the bug mentioned in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695328 There was no [OP] label when I first reloaded this page, and now after replying, I am marked as the [OP]. edit: it seems the [OP] relies on a URL hash with the ID of the OP. However, this doesn't work for me because I don't navigate to HN posts from the HN site. I usually come from https://hn.leftium.com https://hn.leftium.com. (Or a page like https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/47694036 https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/47694036)
    - latchkey 6mo ago
      I'm so confused. Can you explain it to me a bit more clearly what you'd like to see? I literally just took the code from refined. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/ee7ef6d55ae15f26a5bf4123d738b249883f7798/src/features/comments-ui-tweaks.js#L29 https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/ee7ef...
      - Leftium 6mo ago
        I opened an issue with screenshots: https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/issues/16 https://github.com/OrangeJuiceExtension/OrangeJuice/issues/1...