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Modern for Hacker News by Modern Redesigns

A redesigned web interface for Hacker News. Enhance your Hacker News experience with a beautiful, clean, modern design that's fully customizable.

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Enhance your Hacker News experience with a beautiful, clean, modern design that's fully customizable.

Once installed, this extension will simply apply the new look and features to existing Hacker News pages, without you having to do anything.

All current features on Hacker News are supported, this extension simply builds upon the existing interface to offer many improvements, including:

✔ Themes (light, classic HN, slate, dark, black)
✔ Fonts (sans, serif, change font size)
✔ Styles (column width, line height)
✔ History (quickly jump to stories you've previously viewed)
✔ Comments (inline reply + many other improvements)
✔ Index (switch between list / table view, customize columns)
✔ User accounts (all HN account features accessible from menu)
✔ Switch back to the old design (if needed) with one click
✔ More improvements planned for upcoming releases!

If you have any questions, need help or have any suggestions, please get in touch: support@modernhn.com

This extension is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or sponsored by Y Combinator.

Updates:

v1.14
- Fixed bugs due to HTML changes on HN
- Fixed score not being shown for your own comments

v1.12
- Fixed bugs due to HTML changes on HN

v1.11
- Fixed favorites not being saved
- Fade visited links + added setting to toggle
- Added setting to toggle showing icons on hover
- Added prev / next to comment menu

v1.1
- Bug fixes

v1.0
- First version
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Required permissions:

  • Access your data for news.ycombinator.com
  • Access your data for extensionpay.com
  • Access your data for hacker-news.firebaseio.com
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Version
1.14
Size
6.89 MB
Last updated
3 years ago (Nov 13, 2022)
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✔ Fixed bugs due to HTML changes on HN
✔ Fixed score not being shown for your own comments
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