2. The Hacker News UX is very minimalistic, which makes it
easy to improve upon. Here are 5 Chrome extensions that
will make it much better and more efficient.
3. THE FIVE EXTENSIONS
• tl;dr
• Hacker Face
• Hacker News Hotkeys
• Hacker News Collapse
• Hacker News Show Parent Comment
4. tl;dr
Just hover on the little tl;dr badges to enjoy summaries written
by the community. Stop opening 2355 useless background tabs.
5. HACKER FACE
Rapportive for Hacker News: find more about Hacker News
users by hovering on their screen name
6. HACKER NEWS HOTKEYS
Use GMail keyboard shortcuts to accelerate the browsing of
Hacker News:
• j — move down
• k — move up
• o — open / view comments
• enter — same as above
• r — reply to comment or post. Only works on article pages
• w — upvote (win)
• s — downvote
7. HACKER NEWS COLLAPSE
Adds little [+] and [-] to enable you to collapse comments on
Hacker News threads
8. HACKER NEWS SHOW PARENT COMMENT
Hover on “show parent” and it pops up the parent comment.