HN Copy Links by Myoungdo Park

Reading Hacker News through an AI chat usually means two trips: paste the article link, then go back and find the comment page so the summary covers what Hacker News made of it. Asking the assistant to find the discussion itself rarely lands on the right page.

HN Copy Links puts a small copy button next to every headline. One click writes both links to your clipboard:

Article: https://example.com/rust-in-the-kernel
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41000001

Paste that into any assistant and it has everything it needs. An Ask HN or Show HN post has no separate article, so it copies as a single line.

WHAT YOU ALREADY READ

Copying instead of clicking means the headline never turns purple, so the button takes that job over: once used, it turns into a dimmed check mark. A long list still separates into what you have looked at and what you have not.

That record is kept on your own device, in the browser's extension storage. It is never uploaded and never shared between your devices. Entries older than 180 days are dropped.

WHERE IT WORKS

Every Hacker News list: the front page, new, best, ask, show, past, a user's submissions and the per-site pages. The button lands wherever a headline does.

PRIVACY AND PERMISSIONS

The extension asks for two things: storage, for the list of stories you copied, and access to news.ycombinator.com, which is the only site it touches. There is no background process, no analytics and no network request of its own. Nothing you do leaves your browser.

The source is open and the whole extension is a few hundred lines:
https://github.com/cuspymd/hn-copy-links