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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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.
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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- License
- MIT License
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