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Hacker News Companion by Hacker News Companion

Enhance Hacker News with AI-powered discussion summaries, and enable keyboard navigation with Vim-style shortcuts

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AI Summaries & Vim-Style NavigationThe result of summarizationSupported keyboard shortcutsOptions allowing the user to provide API keys for cloud hosted LLMs
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Key Features:

AI-powered thread summarization with multiple options:
  • Connect to Google AI, Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter or Ollama for advanced summaries
  • For HN Homepage stories, a cashed AI summary is loaded from HN Companion server

Keyboard navigation across posts and comments using Vim-inspired shortcuts - ('h', 'j', 'k', 'l')

Enhanced comment navigation:
  • Quick-jump between comments by the same author ('[', ']')
  • Collapsible comment threads ('c')
  • Visual indicators for post authors and comment counts

Rich user interactions:
  • User profile previews on hover
  • Convenient help panel (press '?' to view all shortcuts)

Perfect for:
  • Power users who prefer keyboard-driven browsing
  • Readers who want quick insights from lengthy discussions

Source Code:
  • Open Source on GitHub
  • MIT Licensed - free to use, modify, and distribute
  • Contributions and feedback welcome!

Active Development:
  • Regular updates and new features
  • Growing support for different AI providers

Note: This extension is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or sponsored by Y Combinator or Hacker News.
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Required permissions:

  • Access your data for news.ycombinator.com

Optional permissions:

  • Access your data for news.ycombinator.com
  • Access your data for hn.algolia.com
  • Access your data for app.hncompanion.com
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Version
1.5.6
Size
229.01 KB
Last updated
3 days ago (Aug 18, 2025)
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Release notes for 1.5.6
  • Updated list of supported AI models
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