hn-friends

This is super! I was able to understand how to use it right away, installed and upvoted. I don't know how much I will use it, but I have often noticed the same insightful people…

Very cool! I think it's especially great that this is a browser plugin instead of a separate website. It's great when developers make things as easy as possible on users. Nice…

Very cool! I think it's especially great that this is a browser plugin instead of a separate website. It's great when developers make things as easy as possible on users. Nice…

Agree! I am an app developer, and I like to think about how to make app developers jobs (and onboarding) easier, and the next thing I will write on that vein I think, already…

I would think that would be generally harmful for the point of thoughtful discussion as you are essentially labeling a person from the get-go with a certain bias.

To be fair, Walter is a pretty solid choice. He's a successful businessman and extremely technically smart. There are quite a handful of similar people on here, who are very…

More pessimistically, it could make you disagree posts because they're made by someone you disagree with.

I'd like an extension to remove usernames entirely. I would rather my opinions about commentary be less biased, not more.

You'd probably want them hashed instead (maybe with a salt based on toplevel thread ID) - while you may prefer to not know who are you reading, you probably want to know whether…

Love it. Thanks. Even better if tag is visible btw.

Also I would personally prefer for the "tag" box to have a save button next to it. It wasn't clear to me whether it autosaves or if I was supposed to type the name before…

Would be neat if you could tag people with different colors, to indicate like/dislike, or to indicate the primary topic that you have encountered them talking about in the past.

Also I would personally prefer for the "tag" box to have a save button next to it. It wasn't clear to me whether it autosaves or if I was supposed to type the name before…

Funny, I just made something like this today (but more primitive), mostly so that I won't miss Walter Bright's comments. ``` // ==UserScript== // @name Hacker News VIP…

There is actually a HNES[0] with both firefox[1] and chrome[2] support. I use it primarily because it highlights new comments from the last time I visited a submission. [0]…

With Stylish or similar, you can do the username highlight like so: a.hnuser[href*="id=dewey"] { background-color: orange !important; color: white !important; }

If you're the kind of person who wants this, you may also be interested in my RSS feed of good HN commenters: http://hnblogs.thume.net/

If you're interested, I just put https://followalong.co into alpha. It lets you follow people on HN and get email alerts when they post