GNgnicholas·Dec 26, 2023
In A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviorsveggiedefender
hn-friends
JavaScript2018–2023
veggiedefender / hn-friends
hn-friends
Highlight and tag your friends on Hacker News
5Distinct people
7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
49GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Highlight and tag your friends on Hacker News
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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Also in these discussions
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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, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by year7 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2018-08-08 17:16:35 UTC to 2023-12-26 20:28:49 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
7 sources> I currently bookmark about 20 users whose comments I find especially insightful across a wide range of subject matter expertise. Is there another way/better way to do this?
I don't know if it still works, but I used this a few years ago for this exact reason: https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends
In A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviorsBrowser extension: https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends
In No Congress 2022: Looking forward to decentralized alternatives and Camp 2023This would be better as a Show HN post :)
P.S. I built something very similar years ago: https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends
In Do not miss posts from your favorite people on HNThis seems to be why https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends and some other extensions exist.
I've got some people tagged by companies, or their interests, or names if I happen to learn them randomly (like spotting John Nagle!) It definitely makes the experience more interesting.
In Ask HN: What are some more authentic online forums?Also I would personally prefer for the "tag" box to have a save button next to it. It wasn't clear to me whether it autosaves or if I was supposed to type the name before clicking "add friend". Could just be me though, but I would like this feature. Added this issue so that if people agree or disagree, they can vote on it through thumbs up/down in the Github interface: https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends/issues/1
In Show HN: Extension to highlight and tag users on Hacker NewsShow HN: Extension to highlight and tag users on Hacker News
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