Ask HN: What features would make a Hacker News Chrome extension indispensable?

2 dataviz1000 4 7/1/2025, 2:17:33 AM

I’ve started developing a Chrome extension that displays comments in a side panel adjacent to any Hacker News-linked page you visit, but similar tools already exist. In previous versions, users also raised privacy concerns about sending information about their active page to third-party servers. Do you have any suggestions for additional features I could implement?

Currently, the Chrome extension uses https://hn.algolia.com/ to get information about pages in other tabs. Also, I can run huggingface transformers.js with models like Openai Whisper or ocr image to text inside a Chrome extension side panel. Any feature ideas for a Chrome extension to interact with Hacker News and all the webpages linked?

Comments (4)

ungreased0675 · 9h ago

I’d like the ability to hide links to the Atlantic, New York Times, and Ars Technica.

almosthere · 11h ago

Firefox user, but maybe an option to hide all posts that are paywall blocked - unless someone posts an archive link (although actually ignore those too - paywall sites should be punished)

beardyw · 8h ago

"Indispensable" is a high bar.

ggm-at-algebras · 11h ago

As few variances from the unadorned ui as possible.