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  • hnuser

    Hacker New User Information On Hover

  • Hacker News API

    Documentation and Samples for the Official HN API

  • 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

  • SurveyJS

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  • refined-hacker-news

    ✨ Hacker News, but refined — Interface tweaks and features to make the HN experience better

  • 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

    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

    [3]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/momento-for-hacker-...

  • hackersmacker

    Friend/foe individual writers on Hacker News.

  • 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

    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

    [3]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/momento-for-hacker-...

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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