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I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

Shown by twalichiewicz on Jul 28, 2026. Click the card to turn it over.

433points

126comments

#68of 4,366 in 2026

Top 2%of 2026 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

12 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 6 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.

Idea: 9 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

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Useful for reading discussion alongside technical articles
From 1 comment
- Feature 2 is really useful. When I land on a technical article I know chances are there will be a nice HN discussion, that may sometimes even refute the main point of the…
  kccqzy on HN
Slick design
From 1 comment
- This is slick. 2 things. 1. If you name your script with the extension .user.js it is easier to click on to automatically install at least with tampermonkey. 2. When I went to…
  perpil on HN

Sends visited URLs to hn.algolia.com on every page, a privacy leak
From 1 comment
- Have you considered modifying it to trigger on every HNews click as well as with as manually triggered? As it is now it leaks browser URLs + query string + fragments to…
  abudooboo on HN
Script auto-activates on ChatGPT and Claude pages
From 2 comments
- Hello, Just for your information, when I open "https://claude.ai/new" the script automatically open a random article, do you know why?
  ML0037 on HN
- hehe, I opened chatgpt and the little button blocks the three dots
  zouhair on HN
Not clear how to install userscripts without an extension
From 1 comment
- Wouldn't it make sense to have it an extension? Just spontainously (without reading any instructions) I don't understand how to use this or what Userscripts Tamper or…
  trash_cat on HN

Turn it into a browser extension
From 2 comments
- I think the amount of upvotes you’re getting here suggests that it might be worth building a proper browser extension for this! Would you be interested in making one?
  joshdavham on HN
- Wouldn't it make sense to have it an extension? Just spontainously (without reading any instructions) I don't understand how to use this or what Userscripts Tamper or…
  trash_cat on HN
Mobile panel should start collapsed
From 2 comments
- This is slick. 2 things. 1. If you name your script with the extension .user.js it is easier to click on to automatically install at least with tampermonkey. 2. When I went to…
  perpil on HN
- The mobile default seems important here: opening the panel collapsed, then preserving its size per site, could keep the first article read predictable while retaining quick…
  Natalia724 on HN
Ability to vote on comments in the sidebar
From 1 comment
- In the side bar I can't vote on the comments.
  ninalanyon on HN

How duplicate HN submissions are handled
From 1 comment
- Nice idea ! How do you handle duplicates ?
  hugopuybareau on HN
Why the maker uses an AI-generated profile picture
From 1 comment
- @twalichiewicz, why do you use a fake AI generated pfp across all of your online accounts?
  PKop on HN

Browser split view and tile features
From 4 comments
- Firefox has a new Split View that's useful for this, but you still have to left click and select open in split view (M) then click the link. You also used to be able on some…
  pluc on HN
- Vivaldi has included split view for years (called tiles). You can also right click a link and choose open in follower tab. This lets all links clicked in one tile open in another…
  dagurp on HN
- Nice. I’ve been using the new split tabs in Chrome. Works perfectly. I believe Firefox had this first?
  james2doyle on HN
- Chrome has add tab to split view.
  thelastgallon on HN
hackernews-button Firefox extension using Bloom filters
From 1 comment
- If you use Firefox (and will pardon me plugging my own project), you might be interested in a version of this I made a while ago as a browser extension:…
  jstrieb on HN
Middle-click or Command-click to open both tabs
From 2 comments
- This is cool. Don't want to minimize that. That said, in case it helps anyone else, my usual flow is to middle-click (by clicking my mouse wheel) both the link and the comments…
  cbhl on HN
- Just command + click
  Ostatnigrosh on HN