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HNES

Hacker News Extension Suite

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What it is

Hacker News Extension Suite

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Where it is used

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Looks good. My only comment is that I really wish it showed more posts. I have some big monitors, with pretty high resolution, and I love being able to see lots of content on…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year34 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-05-07 19:08:14 UTC to 2023-10-21 17:13:59 UTC.

02462012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
Warning: Unmaintained I don't have much desire to keep maintaining this project, so please don't create pull requests for any new features or anything which is not a bug or regression. Hacker News Enhancement Suite A Hacker News extension for Firefox and Chrome which changes lots of things. Features Completely new style Easy access to all pages Enhanced comment threads Collapsible comments Inline commenting Link to parent Display all comments on paginated threads Highlight the original poster Show and highlight new comments since you last view a thread Highlight links once clicked to more easily identify what you've recently visited Redirect back to the front page upon hitting an expired link Display how many times you've upvoted each user Graphs on polls Clickable links in self posts and on users profile pages New smooth and scalable up & down vote arrows Keyboard controls on index pages: j - Next item k - Previous item o - Open story l - Open story in a new tab p - View comments c - View comments in a new tab b - Open both the comments and the story in new tabs Tag users Firefox AMO link https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hnes/ Chrome web store link https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm TODO Options page Put search in a better place + ajax auto-complete Do something with un-threaded comment lists (e.g. best comments) Make profiles prettier Allow user to highlight friends (ala RES) Show dead/grayed-out comments on mouse hover (or maybe a button) Test / make it work when user can see downvotes Things I can't test I don't have enough karma to test down votes, creating polls, or topbar color Compatability I do not test this extension with any other extensions active on Hacker News so I cannot guarantee that it will play nice. If you come across an apparent bug please make sure that any other extension are disabled or please mention which ones are enabled in the bug report. License MIT License, see LICENSE Thanks Wayne Larson for hckrnews.com and permission to use code from his extension which displays new comments. @jarques for his HN+ extension (https://github.com/jarquesp/Hacker-News--) which was used as a starting point for this project. Thanks to Samuel Stern (hatboysam) for the inline commenting. Thanks to Vishnu Rajeevan (burntcookie90) for adding more keyboard shortcuts. Thanks to Lewis Pollard (lewispollard) for highlighting a story once you've opened it and redirecting to the front page when you hit an expired link. Thanks to Dean Harding (codeka) for replacing the up/down vote images with CSS buttons. Thanks to Jiahua (jwang47) for his fork of Már Örlygsson's (maranomynet) linkify JQuery plugin. Thanks for Dan Harper (danharper) and to Will Ridgers (wridgers) for some CSS fixes. Thanks for Nuno Santos (nfvs) for styling the login page and other fixes. Thanks to alanc10n for fixing issue 66 Thanks to sglantz for adding support for topcolor, issue 52 Thanks to ibejoeb for fixing the collapsible comments, improving comment performance, and many other improvements. Thanks to SCdF for a bug fix. Thanks to MaximeKjaer for adding the ability to tag users. Thanks to c17r for a fix to the new comment highlighting.
Read the full README on GitHub

What Hacker News says

34 sources
CrypticShift·Dec 3, 2022
What I don't understand is why they all go full classic OS demo, with always the same suite of basic apps (note, paint, photo...) Why not build (complex but specific) SaaS applications that just leverage OS designs paradigms on the frontend (taskbar, windows, notifications, desktop, icons..) inside the same tab? What if the OS-like apps were open plugins that will augment that SaaS? [edit] here is an example: Imagine an alternative OS-like interface to HN that is plugin-based. You can add themes, or apps like messaging between HN users (in different windows), keyword-based and comment replies notification (a la Action Center)... it is like HNES [1] on steroids. [1] https://github.com/etcet/HNES
In Puter
xwowsersx·Aug 26, 2022
Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683334 for example loads fine, but the contractor one just loads nothing for me. Checked network tab and don't see any errors or anything. Hmm, inspector tab shows the full DOM, but none of it is visible in the browser window... https://ibb.co/3vDts8r EDIT: Ok, must be an extension. Works fine in private window. EDIT 2: the culprit appears to be the Hacker News Enhancement Suite extension on FF. Once disabled, the poll works. https://github.com/etcet/HNES
In Ask HN: Contractors, what is your hourly rate?
aasasd·Jul 20, 2021
The ‘Hacker News Enhancement Suite’ browser extension highlights new replies on the comment pages, including the ‘threads’/‘your comments’ page. Still a ‘polling’ workflow, but better than nothing. Also adds a few useful links in the header, and makes the front page a bit better-looking. https://github.com/etcet/HNES/ (There's a downside that it breaks the ‘more’ links on paginated comment pages.) Weirdly it seems that third-party Android apps for HN haven't bothered with doing anything similar, checking for replies in the background and popping up notifications. That would be pretty much perfect, and isn't really too complicated.
In Ask HN: How do you track comment threads in HN?
mos_basik·Apr 20, 2020
Man, that blogpost [0] really did a number on me. Warning, navel-gazing ahead. I have a browser extension [1] that lets me set custom tags on HN users. I'm not unconflicted about using it, since I have some ideological hangups that tell me to let people's words speak for themselves and to not let someone's history muddy the waters of a discussion in the present. That being said, HN isn't anonymous and it's a comparatively small community and I decided I might as well try keeping track (to some extent) of who's saying what here because it's practicable and there are other places I can experience death-of-the-author just fine. Besides, it reminds me that jacquesm sorted two metric tons of lego using legos and machine learning that one time, so now that always makes me smile when I see him comment. So here I am, looking at your comment and
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trying to figure out what it tells me about you as a commenter - what I would want to remember about you if I saw you again. It needs to be fairly terse, to fit. The first idea that arrives is "It's not reasonable to be white." I dismiss this immediately, because it's the most cynical and least-founded take on your comment (though darkly funny to me). The second idea is "The 'It's ok to be white' campaign is not reasonable." I turn this over in my mind a few times and even start typing it out. But while I'm typing, I re-read your edit and pause. Then I realize - I'm doing exactly what that blogpost described. "What did 0xff00ffee mean here?" What if all you meant to do is ask is the literal question "Are you saying that the 'It's ok to be white' campaign is reasonable?" And it's hard for me to even come up with a way of phrasing this in such a way that it sufficiently emphasises the literal, un-euphemistic, un-implicating character that I'm trying describe. Then I pause again and realize that I've fallen down a semantic rabbithole and there's a snowball's chance in hell that you meant your comment in the third way. And by this time I've read your next comment [2] and am aware that you're aware of the ambiguous, scissor statement nature of your original comment and the amount of context that must be conveyed in order to disambiguate it. This humanises you. Instead of a snarky internet signaller, you become a real person, with parents whose views you care about and who's already expended effort trying to convey the that large context to people without setting off the self-generating minefield that you know exists. The snappy comment wasn't because you haven't stopped caring about changing people's minds; you're just tired of arguing with apparently superficial people who aren't prepared to take context into account (and you were responding to someone who may be a particularly strong example of such). So I guess you're "a real human bean". 0: https://sneak.berlin/20191201/american-communication 1: https://github.com/etcet/HNES 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22924252
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