Hacker News TL;DR
A bring-your-own-key extension for summarizing Hacker News articles with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama LLMs.
As of May 2026, Hacker News TL;DR has 16 users and a 5.00/5 rating from 1 reviews in the Productivity category.
Usersdown 15.8 percent−15.8%
16
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Ratingno change0%
5.00
1 reviews
Reviewsno change0%
1
Version
0.3.0
Manifest V3
History
2 snapshotsTracking since Apr 1, 2026.
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| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2026 | 19 | 5.00 | 1 | 0.3.0 |
| May 27, 2026 | 18 | 5.00 | 1 | 0.3.0 |
| Now | 16 | 5.00 | 1 | 0.3.0 |
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- storage
- Host access
- <all_urls>
Screenshots
About
A bring-your-own-key extension for summarizing Hacker News articles with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama LLMs. The extension will add the summarize buttons to the HN front page and article pages. Just provide your Anthropic or OpenAI API key or Ollama URL and you're good to go. 🔒️ Security note: The API keys are stored in your browser's storage and synced across devices if the browser is configured to do so. They are sent by the extension to the LLM providers only. The extension is open source, the code can be found <a href="https://github.com/ivanyu/hn-tldr-extension">here</a>
Technical
- Version
- 0.3.0
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 36.95KiB
- Min Chrome
- 88
- Languages
- 1
- Featured
- No
Metadata
- ID
- oobfhfehiidchknmihplkgknbjolanlk
- Developer ID
- ueedc5945e1935516005bb828509c473b
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Dec 11, 2024
- Last Updated (Store)
- Dec 16, 2024
- Last Scraped
- May 27, 2026
- Website
- —
- Support URL
- https://github.com/ivanyu/hn-tldr-extension
- Privacy Policy
- —
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