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Show HN: Chrome Extension for the one thing I miss on HN

59 points by dalys 13y ago

cateye 13y ago
This is really great! Exactly what I missed too. Without getting in to feature bloat, I would like an indicator for the amount of comments too.
- dalys 13y ago
  Thanks! I suspect this would be somthing others miss as well. I've thought about the comments too and I will have to come up with a good simple indicator for those as well I think. The feature creep begins... :)
dangrossman 13y ago
+1. I also recommend Hacked Hacker News [1] for unread comment counts on the homepage, highlighting unread comments and inline commenting/editing. I also use Hacker News Collapse [2] to make comment threads collapsible. 1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacked-hacker-news/hlddllcemddpbekleofllndfidcgbgdp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacked-hacker-news... 2: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collapse/bbkfcamiocfccgmcjngdljolljhifdph https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...
- vhf 13y ago
  My favorite is Hacker News Enhancement Suite [1], for unread comment counts, voting on front page, highlight unread, inline comment, collapsible thread, etc. 1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhancement-s/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
  - lowboy 13y ago
    Just trying this out now - looks great so far.
  - prawks 13y ago
    Seconded, been using it for a while with no issues.
  - etcet 13y ago
    It has color coded upvote counts too! http://i.imgur.com/6NQyhPI.png http://i.imgur.com/6NQyhPI.png I take pull requests at https://github.com/etcet/HNES https://github.com/etcet/HNES but I only have a few hours a week to work on it.
- Torn 13y ago
  Using these two plus the OPs link color one, working pretty nicely! Hacker News Enhancement suite changes the look and feel too significantly for me to use it.
- lobster_johnson 13y ago
  Thanks for these. Now what we need is something like Reddit Companion [1], which injects a toolbar to visited pages so that you can just click on a story and then go to the comments. If that sounds un-noteworthy: Ordinarily, if you open a story link, it's somewhat cumbersome to get to the HN comments. I typically open the HN comments first, then follow the link to the story, so that I can always use the back button to get the comments. Or I open the HN comments in a separate tab, then the story. If I'm less than careful, I'll open the story, go to lunch, come back and not find the HN comments because it's dropped off the front page and the HN title is so different from the story headline that it's impossible except by brute force. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-companion/algjnflpgoopkdijmkalfcifomdhmcbe https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-companion/a...
- prawn 13y ago
  Thanks for the second link. Been very keen to get collapsible threads.
hnha 13y ago
please don't force people to click your link to find out what the "one thing" is. mention it right in your title.
- lowboy 13y ago
  Yeah, can we get some moderator title editing here?
- dalys 13y ago
  That's true. I wish I would've come up with a more describing title. Spent a couple of minutes trying to compress what I wanted to convey in a couple of words and this was the result.
- Udo 13y ago
  It's even worse for people not using Chrome at the time. I just got to a generic "fuck you" page when I clicked the link on an iPad. I still have no idea what this thing does.
jschuur 13y ago
I'd love to see it incorporate points over time too. You've got the post age right on the page, you should be able to factor that in. Although, perhaps 'hot' stories are just the ones towards the top of the page anyway.
- onli 13y ago
  They are, factored in with the karma of the upvoters, as far as i know. And that's why I like this addon that much: It gives a feel for the age and the weight of a submission, when a red story is on the bottom of the page compared to when a bright yellow story is at the top.
xSwag 13y ago
I realise that the extension is released in good faith, but am I the only person who thinks that this is probably the best way to xss users and gain upvotes for your stories and "show hn" due to the nature of these extensions they can bypass same origin policy since they can do anything on news.yc and hence get the upvote token and send an upvote request. Since the extensions are updated automatically, we wouldn't even know it happened. Same could be said about extensions that require access to all websites. If the extension dev gets compromised you could potentially get compromised Attacker hijacks developer account ↓ ↓ XSS cookie stealer or some 0-day payloads are dropped ↓ ↓ Your computer/accounts get owned. (paypal,mtgox,hsbc,gmail,yahoo etc) Maybe there should be some sort of feature that blacklists websites that no extension is allowed to access.
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lupa 13y ago
I have two small quirks with this, aside from them, I like it. The row spacing is too much now and the vote icon is now offsetting the title slightly. I feel that this simple idea can be executed without any other alterations to the interface. Also, it only works for the front page and I'm a person that likes to check out the first 2 pages and the discrepancy is getting annoying.
jakub_g 13y ago
Why not write a userscript for this kind of thing and publish it on userscripts.org? 1) It's cross-browser: Firefox (Greasemonkey), Chrome (Tampermonkey), Opera users can install it 2) Users can easily read the source code before installation to assure it doesn't do anything malicious If it changes DOM, but doesn't interact with the browser itself, it should be a userscript. A small introductory presentation about userscripts and GM_ API that I've recently done: https://speakerdeck.com/jakubg/userscripts-augmenting-and-automating-web-browsing-and-debugging https://speakerdeck.com/jakubg/userscripts-augmenting-and-au...
Udo 13y ago
For people (like me) who didn't know what this was due to lack of a Chrome browser - here's the description: Hacker News Colors Makes Hacker News easier to read by adding a bit of color next to the upvote button besides every story, where the color is based on the number of points.
- unwind 13y ago
  The link showed a screenshot and that description for me (in Firefox), so I really don't get what you mean about Chrome being needed to find out.
  - sigvef 13y ago
    This is what it looks like on an iPad at least https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKaxeNfCQAAp678.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKaxeNfCQAAp678.jpg
mtarnovan 13y ago
I use this: https://github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness https://github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness https://raw.github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness/master/screenshots/yc_1.png https://raw.github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness/master/screensho...
mappu 13y ago
This thread happened again, and this time i'm ready - here's my HN extension! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hnhance/ddidnigndcepokcpocecblkfeohcedlg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hnhance/ddidnigndc... Also compatible with greasemonkey for FF users. All tweaks are optional with a discreet menu: two custom themes, hover user to view profile, hover parent link to see parent, option to confirm accidental downvotes, show submissions link in header, link to additional commentary on other sites
Achshar 13y ago
Well If I were you, I would color the points themselves. And follow the coloring scheme HN already uses (lighter grey for weaker and darker grey for stronger) If the points become unreadable due to very low score, user can always double click on it and it will highlight in blue background.
intellegacy 13y ago
Hey HN, slightly off-topic question: is it possible to have a "login to our website with HN" capability? similar to facebook and twitter connect.
onli 13y ago
Have it now enabled since I saw that submission three days ago. Still like the effect, thanks for your work.

59 points by dalys 13y ago

This is really great! Exactly what I missed too. Without getting in to feature bloat, I would like an indicator for the amount of comments too.

dalys 13y ago
Thanks! I suspect this would be somthing others miss as well. I've thought about the comments too and I will have to come up with a good simple indicator for those as well I think. The feature creep begins... :)

dangrossman 13y ago

+1. I also recommend Hacked Hacker News [1] for unread comment counts on the homepage, highlighting unread comments and inline commenting/editing. I also use Hacker News Collapse [2] to make comment threads collapsible. 1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacked-hacker-news/hlddllcemddpbekleofllndfidcgbgdp https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacked-hacker-news... 2: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collapse/bbkfcamiocfccgmcjngdljolljhifdph https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...

vhf 13y ago
My favorite is Hacker News Enhancement Suite [1], for unread comment counts, voting on front page, highlight unread, inline comment, collapsible thread, etc. 1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhancement-s/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
- lowboy 13y ago
  Just trying this out now - looks great so far.
- prawks 13y ago
  Seconded, been using it for a while with no issues.
- etcet 13y ago
  It has color coded upvote counts too! http://i.imgur.com/6NQyhPI.png http://i.imgur.com/6NQyhPI.png I take pull requests at https://github.com/etcet/HNES https://github.com/etcet/HNES but I only have a few hours a week to work on it.
Torn 13y ago
Using these two plus the OPs link color one, working pretty nicely! Hacker News Enhancement suite changes the look and feel too significantly for me to use it.
lobster_johnson 13y ago
Thanks for these. Now what we need is something like Reddit Companion [1], which injects a toolbar to visited pages so that you can just click on a story and then go to the comments. If that sounds un-noteworthy: Ordinarily, if you open a story link, it's somewhat cumbersome to get to the HN comments. I typically open the HN comments first, then follow the link to the story, so that I can always use the back button to get the comments. Or I open the HN comments in a separate tab, then the story. If I'm less than careful, I'll open the story, go to lunch, come back and not find the HN comments because it's dropped off the front page and the HN title is so different from the story headline that it's impossible except by brute force. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-companion/algjnflpgoopkdijmkalfcifomdhmcbe https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-companion/a...
prawn 13y ago
Thanks for the second link. Been very keen to get collapsible threads.

hnha 13y ago

please don't force people to click your link to find out what the "one thing" is. mention it right in your title.

lowboy 13y ago
Yeah, can we get some moderator title editing here?
dalys 13y ago
That's true. I wish I would've come up with a more describing title. Spent a couple of minutes trying to compress what I wanted to convey in a couple of words and this was the result.
Udo 13y ago
It's even worse for people not using Chrome at the time. I just got to a generic "fuck you" page when I clicked the link on an iPad. I still have no idea what this thing does.

jschuur 13y ago

I'd love to see it incorporate points over time too. You've got the post age right on the page, you should be able to factor that in. Although, perhaps 'hot' stories are just the ones towards the top of the page anyway.

onli 13y ago
They are, factored in with the karma of the upvoters, as far as i know. And that's why I like this addon that much: It gives a feel for the age and the weight of a submission, when a red story is on the bottom of the page compared to when a bright yellow story is at the top.

xSwag 13y ago

I realise that the extension is released in good faith, but am I the only person who thinks that this is probably the best way to xss users and gain upvotes for your stories and "show hn" due to the nature of these extensions they can bypass same origin policy since they can do anything on news.yc and hence get the upvote token and send an upvote request. Since the extensions are updated automatically, we wouldn't even know it happened. Same could be said about extensions that require access to all websites. If the extension dev gets compromised you could potentially get compromised Attacker hijacks developer account ↓ ↓ XSS cookie stealer or some 0-day payloads are dropped ↓ ↓ Your computer/accounts get owned. (paypal,mtgox,hsbc,gmail,yahoo etc) Maybe there should be some sort of feature that blacklists websites that no extension is allowed to access.

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lupa 13y ago

I have two small quirks with this, aside from them, I like it. The row spacing is too much now and the vote icon is now offsetting the title slightly. I feel that this simple idea can be executed without any other alterations to the interface. Also, it only works for the front page and I'm a person that likes to check out the first 2 pages and the discrepancy is getting annoying.

jakub_g 13y ago

Why not write a userscript for this kind of thing and publish it on userscripts.org? 1) It's cross-browser: Firefox (Greasemonkey), Chrome (Tampermonkey), Opera users can install it 2) Users can easily read the source code before installation to assure it doesn't do anything malicious If it changes DOM, but doesn't interact with the browser itself, it should be a userscript. A small introductory presentation about userscripts and GM_ API that I've recently done: https://speakerdeck.com/jakubg/userscripts-augmenting-and-automating-web-browsing-and-debugging https://speakerdeck.com/jakubg/userscripts-augmenting-and-au...

Udo 13y ago

For people (like me) who didn't know what this was due to lack of a Chrome browser - here's the description: Hacker News Colors Makes Hacker News easier to read by adding a bit of color next to the upvote button besides every story, where the color is based on the number of points.

unwind 13y ago
The link showed a screenshot and that description for me (in Firefox), so I really don't get what you mean about Chrome being needed to find out.
- sigvef 13y ago
  This is what it looks like on an iPad at least https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKaxeNfCQAAp678.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKaxeNfCQAAp678.jpg

mtarnovan 13y ago

I use this: https://github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness https://github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness https://raw.github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness/master/screenshots/yc_1.png https://raw.github.com/wuzhe/social-hotness/master/screensho...

mappu 13y ago

This thread happened again, and this time i'm ready - here's my HN extension! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hnhance/ddidnigndcepokcpocecblkfeohcedlg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hnhance/ddidnigndc... Also compatible with greasemonkey for FF users. All tweaks are optional with a discreet menu: two custom themes, hover user to view profile, hover parent link to see parent, option to confirm accidental downvotes, show submissions link in header, link to additional commentary on other sites

Achshar 13y ago

Well If I were you, I would color the points themselves. And follow the coloring scheme HN already uses (lighter grey for weaker and darker grey for stronger) If the points become unreadable due to very low score, user can always double click on it and it will highlight in blue background.

intellegacy 13y ago

Hey HN, slightly off-topic question: is it possible to have a "login to our website with HN" capability? similar to facebook and twitter connect.

onli 13y ago

Have it now enabled since I saw that submission three days ago. Still like the effect, thanks for your work.