Modern for Hacker News

A redesigned web interface for Hacker News.

As of May 2026, Modern for Hacker News has 10,000 users and a 4.48/5 rating from 48 reviews in the Workflow & Planning category.

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Version
1.14
Manifest V3

History

2 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 24, 2026.

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May 19, 202610.0K4.51471.14
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Permissions & access

Permissions
activeTabstorageunlimitedStorage
Host access
*://news.ycombinator.com/*

Screenshots

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About

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 – adjust column width, line height, justify text
✔ History – quickly jump to stories you've previously viewed
✔ Comments – inline reply + many other improvements 
✔ Index – switch between list / table view, customize columns
✔ Profiles – new design with tabs, clickable links etc
✔ Accounts – all HN account features supported
✔ 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: [email protected]

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


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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

Technical

Version
1.14
Manifest
V3
Size
6.79MiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
1
Featured
Yes

Metadata

ID
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Developer ID
u89182ebca4cc944f984d530accccf34c
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Sep 8, 2022
Last Updated (Store)
Nov 15, 2022
Last Scraped
May 19, 2026
Website
modernhn.com

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