Hacker News Companion by Hacker News Companion
Enhance Hacker News with AI-powered discussion summaries, and enable keyboard navigation with Vim-style shortcuts
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See It In Action
Watch a brief YouTube demo
Key Features:
AI-powered thread summarization with multiple options:
Keyboard navigation across posts and comments using Vim-inspired shortcuts - ('h', 'j', 'k', 'l')
Enhanced comment navigation:
Rich user interactions:
Perfect for:
Source Code:
Active Development:
Note: This extension is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or sponsored by Y Combinator or Hacker News.
Watch a brief YouTube demo
Key Features:
AI-powered thread summarization with multiple options:
- Connect to Google AI, Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter or Ollama for advanced summaries
- For HN Homepage stories, a cashed AI summary is loaded from HN Companion server
Keyboard navigation across posts and comments using Vim-inspired shortcuts - ('h', 'j', 'k', 'l')
Enhanced comment navigation:
- Quick-jump between comments by the same author ('[', ']')
- Collapsible comment threads ('c')
- Visual indicators for post authors and comment counts
Rich user interactions:
- User profile previews on hover
- Convenient help panel (press '?' to view all shortcuts)
Perfect for:
- Power users who prefer keyboard-driven browsing
- Readers who want quick insights from lengthy discussions
Source Code:
- Open Source on GitHub
- MIT Licensed - free to use, modify, and distribute
- Contributions and feedback welcome!
Active Development:
- Regular updates and new features
- Growing support for different AI providers
Note: This extension is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or sponsored by Y Combinator or Hacker News.
Rated 5 by 1 reviewer
Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access your data for news.ycombinator.com
Optional permissions:
- Access your data for news.ycombinator.com
- Access your data for hn.algolia.com
- Access your data for app.hncompanion.com
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- Version
- 1.5.6
- Size
- 229.01 KB
- Last updated
- 3 months ago (Aug 18, 2025)
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- MIT License
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