Refined-hacker-news Alternatives

refined-hacker-news reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: Are there any alternative front ends for HN?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2024

  You can checkout this repo and see if something is more appealing to you: https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news

  I personally just use Stylus and have a custom css for making things a but more readable and user friendly.

  There's also this extension that just refines a couple things: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

• Show HN: Hacker News User Information on Hover
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2024

  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-...

• Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023

  It seems that HN has a lot of anti-user features for the sake of it. Perhaps the rationale for graying out self posts is to make them not stand out (so that the post from OP doesn't get any undue advantage over the comments), but it's just an accessibility nightmare. It's as if people with poor eyesight were not welcome here.

  I use Refined Hacker News https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news which alleviates some pain points, but unfortunately it doesn't fix this issue.

• Sequoia Captials Puff piece on SBF just before FTX's collapse
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2023

  Sequoia: Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33527047 (November 8, 2022 — 18 points, 7 comments)

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  [0] https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/blob/main/...

• Ask HN: What userscripts/styles do you use for HN?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Sep 2023

  I find https://hw.leftium.com/ much more readable, but it's read-only (can't vote/comment/submit). And due to caching some recent comments are missing.

  So for those rare occasions I use news.ycombinator.com. https://hw.leftium.com/ has links to the original HN page. Plus I have a bookmarklet that toggles between the two.

  Refined Hacker News[1] makes the original HN site a little nicer to use.

  [1]: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#readme

• Server-Side Rendering Is a Thiel Truth (2020)
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2023

  Not that this should be the answer, but there are a lot of HN browser plugins. Most have at least some level of theming and inline commenting. I'm currently a fan of Refined Hacker News (no affiliation) - https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news - but I'm sure there are others just as good out there.

• API Update: Continued access to our API for moderators
  3 projects | /r/modnews | 31 May 2023

  Hacker news on y Combinator seems like an OK option, at least for those who are tech focused and prefer the old interface. There's the Refined Hacker News which, while not as good as Reddit Enhancement Suite, does make it a lot more bearable. But I don't think Hacker news will really appeal to the masses. There's no communities or subbreddits or any other grouping of users/posts.

• Show HN: Hacker News user experience enhancement browser extension
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2023

  Great extension. I use it heavily. The problem is that the developer seems to have given up on it.

  You'll need this PR to use it without errors: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/pull/125

• Ask HN: How do you get notified of reply comments on HN?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2023

  I just go to my profile -> comments page and take a few seconds to check my most recent comments.

  I have this extension that highlights any new comments, which makes it a lot easier. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

• Show HN: Bookmarklet to Highlight OP's Username
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2023

  Note the Refined Hacker News browser extension does this automatically, and more: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

  This bookmarklet might be a nice option on mobile. I prefer to view via my own HckrNews web app, which also highlights the OP: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/35076225

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