HN Summarizer
Summarize Hacker News article links inline using AI
As of June 2026, HN Summarizer has — users in the Productivity category.
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Version
1.0.0
Manifest V3
History
2 snapshotsTracking since Apr 18, 2026.
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| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2026 | — | — | — | 1.0.0 |
| Apr 24, 2026 | — | — | — | 1.0.0 |
| Now | — | — | — | 1.0.0 |
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- activeTabstorage
- Host access
- *://*/*
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About
A Chrome extension that adds inline AI-powered summaries to Hacker News stories and comment threads. Features: - Article summaries — click "Summarize" next to any story to get a 2-3 sentence summary of the linked article - Comment summaries — summarize comment threads to quickly understand the discussion - Explain more — get detailed, markdown-formatted explanations of articles - Expertise levels — adjust summary depth from ELI5 to Technical using a per-story slider - Summarize all — batch-summarize every story on the page from the popup - Multiple AI providers — choose from Gemini, Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, or xAI (Grok)
Technical
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 15.73KiB
- Min Chrome
- 88
- Languages
- 1
- Featured
- No
Metadata
- ID
- ncmdkfdddihincpopolmcbbjjnpjfche
- Developer ID
- u355213ee677635534bf5148d8680c98d
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Feb 19, 2026
- Last Updated (Store)
- Feb 19, 2026
- Last Scraped
- Jun 3, 2026
- Website
- —
- Support URL
- —
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