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Hacker News Refresh by Kheiro

Reads Hacker News like a modern site: tidy header with tabs, a score table, five colour themes, bookmarks, new-comment badges, keyboard shortcuts and a one-click way back to the original page. Free, no account, nothing leaves your browser.

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A cleaner Hacker News front page: dark theme, score table and control padBookmark stories, comments, people and highlights, with backup and restoreSettings drawer: five themes, typeface, text size, line spacing and page widthNew comments marked since your last visit, with arrows and a selection toolbarHover a username to see account age, karma and bioOne click back to the original Hacker News design
About this extension
Open Hacker News and it already looks better. Everything is free and needs no account.

Make it yours
- Five colour themes (one is a classic HN look), or follow your system's dark mode
- Choose Sans, Serif or Inter, and set text size, line spacing and page width with sliders
- Show stories as a score table or HN's own list, and pick which columns appear
- Keep the header in view, dim stories you have opened, hide vote arrows until you hover, open stories in a new tab
- Switch back to the original page with one click

Keep track
- Bookmark stories, comments, people and highlighted passages, and back them up to a file and restore them
- See which stories have new comments since you last looked, and jump between the new ones
- Select text in a comment to highlight it, quote it, copy it, listen to it or search for it
- Hover a name to see account age, karma and bio
- Revisit recently opened stories, use profile tabs and an account menu, and open the front page of any earlier day

Move faster
- Reply under a comment without leaving the page (uses your existing login)
- Keyboard shortcuts and an on-screen arrow pad

Open source (MIT): https://github.com/kheirou/hacker-news-refresh

Not endorsed by, affiliated with, or sponsored by Y Combinator.
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Permissions and data

Required permissions:

  • Access your data for hacker-news.firebaseio.com
  • Access your data for news.ycombinator.com

Data collection:

  • The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
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Version
1.0.0
Size
175.25 KB
Last updated
7 days ago (Oct 26, 2026)
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