Modern for Hacker News

Chrome Web Store

by Modern Redesigns

v1.14 Updated Nov 15, 2022 6.79MiB

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★ 4.49

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⚠️Not updated in over 2 years

Description

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: support@modernhn.com ---------- This extension is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or sponsored by Y Combinator. ---------- 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

Reviews (5 cached)

Last 12 months

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-16

Nikolay Kolev

I have the paid version and the extension is broken since November 2022 and the developer does not care to fix it.

★★☆☆☆2025-09-25

Alex Yumashev

Very, VERY slow, chokes up on long threads (1500+ comments) on a very fast M4 Max Macbook

★★★☆☆2025-07-02

Yerzhan

Great extension that makes HN more readable and more UXy. Style and format work only for the first page. When I hit "More" button at the bottom of the list it loads 2nd page of HN but without Modern styling, is it intentional?

★★★☆☆2023-07-06

Daniel Castillo

Why the theme fails to load when I press the "More" button? It happens to me in Chrome and Edge.

★★★☆☆2023-04-10

Works well on the front page of HN, but often when I browse to the second page it will just render the native HN page inside of a frame, which defeats the purpose of using this extension. Reloading the page doesn't fix it. So for me, this extension is only useful for browsing the front page of HN.