Pretty Hacker News — a configurable skin for Hacker News

About

Pretty Hacker News restyles news.ycombinator.com in place — same page, same links, your existing login — into a calm, modern reader. It renders its own clean UI over HN's data, so you get a real design instead of a
  recolor.

  Features
  • Named themes including a faithful, dense "Classic" look as the default — switchable from the in-page settings.
  • Instant, no-reload navigation between feeds and stories; back/forward work.
  • Keyboard navigation — j/k to move, o/Enter to open, u to upvote.
  • Upvote, comment, and reply on your real HN account (no passwords stored).
  • Read/seen dimming so you don't re-read the same stories.
  • Velocity badges on fast-rising stories and an "OP" badge on submitter comments.
  • Save stories, mute domains, collapse comment threads, set a default feed.
  • Optional inline article previews — read the linked page (clean text + image) without leaving HN.
  • Optional AI brief (off by default, bring your own key) — summarizes the linked article and the comment thread, and points you to comments worth reading. It only helps you read; it never writes comments or votes for you.

  Local-first: no accounts, no servers of our own, no tracking. Your settings, bookmarks, history — and, if you use AI, your key — live only in your browser. The full source is open and the network calls are listed in the privacy policy.

  Not affiliated with Y Combinator.