What HN Says
Consumer and social
browser extension for hacker news
SHOW HN2020
260points
45comments
#179of 3,028 in 2020
Top 6%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
11 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 2 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Idea: 8 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea and clean design
From 3 comments
This is awesome. I really love this idea, and love the implementation. Works great and I think will be really useful or at least interesting (can't tell yet). One piece of…
coffeemug on HNI use Kiwi Conversations[0] for this which allows you to check HN, Reddit and others if you want. The design of What Hacker News Says is really nice though. [0]…
yalooze on HNLove it! One suggestion, at risk of promoting feature creep/visual bloat: maybe go into those thread and pull the top comments (ideally, the top comments over all discussions),…
SilasX on HN
Helpful for finding discussion context
From 2 comments
Just to offer my perspective, and thank you for yours - I don't feel like HN is a hive mind and a single-voiced consensus, nor that I need to check if 'HN has endorsed this…
mindfulhack on HNNice, I've wanted something like this for a while. HN often has substantive comments on writing in the internet, so I often find myself checking if something interesting I read…
commonturtle on HN
Objections
Sends open tab URLs to Algolia, a privacy concern
From 1 comment
I feel compelled to point out that this extension sends the URLs of all open tabs to algolia.com when you click the extension (at least on Chrome). I would much prefer if it only…
zingermc on HN
Only searches submissions, not comments
From 1 comment
One weird thing to me about this extension and Kiwi Conversations is that it doesn't search comments, only submissions.
eatonphil on HN
Requests
Show indicator of hit count on icon
From 1 comment
Also think it would be great to see an indicator of whether or not there are hits, perhaps not a flash as thats pretty invasive but a number of hits, kinda like SMS or email…
maxbaines on HN
Notify on pages with popular HN threads
From 1 comment
This is awesome. I really love this idea, and love the implementation. Works great and I think will be really useful or at least interesting (can't tell yet). One piece of…
coffeemug on HN
Use a local bloom filter to preserve privacy
From 2 comments
Love the idea, I have thought about this before and the main issue is training my self to click an extension to check. If an icon flashed when there was a HN submission (ideally…
joshstrange on HNMaybe a bloom filter would help if we could get a dump of the urls from HN?
jasonjayr on HN
Questions
Does it avoid sending all open tab URLs?
From 2 comments
I feel compelled to point out that this extension sends the URLs of all open tabs to algolia.com when you click the extension (at least on Chrome). I would much prefer if it only…
zingermc on HN>I feel compelled to point out that this extension sends the URLs of all open tabs to algolia.com when you click the extension (at least on Chrome). Wait, how's that possible?…
achairapart on HN
Alternatives named
Kiwi Conversations
From 1 comment
I use Kiwi Conversations[0] for this which allows you to check HN, Reddit and others if you want. The design of What Hacker News Says is really nice though. [0]…
yalooze on HN
Looped In
From 1 comment
'Looped in' is a very similar extension and a few years older: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16316374 https://github.com/jdormit/looped-in
arendtio on HN
Commenter extension
From 1 comment
Haha, I had the exact same idea a few weeks ago: https://github.com/viorelsfetea/commenter Your design is much nicer tho
kioleanu on HN
HN Lookup
From 1 comment
Your extension looks good! I made a similar extension with clojurescript 4 years ago, using algolia api too. It's not intrusive and only look up when you click. Check out the…
ekzy on HN