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Show HN: Hacker News User Information on Hover (github.com)

13 points by system2 ↗ HN
Hello friends,

It probably exists or someone made it before but I couldn't find it so I created one myself. I also noticed people check each other's profiles often so this might come in handy.

Screenshot of the usage (ignore the red arrow it doesn't come with the extension): https://imgur.com/a/gvJ93ne

This Chrome extension does one simple thing. If you want to check the user information listed in the profile including username, creation date, karma, and about. You just need to hover over the username. I was clicking on users before and it was a waste of time I thought and created this simple extension.

The delay is set to 0.5 seconds so when you move your cursor over users while navigating you don't send requests to the HN by accident.

Cheers.

14 comments

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asadalt
This looks great!

I would recommend putting this in chrome store. It's relatively simple to do so.

system2
AFAIK I need google developer profile which costs money.
polygamous_bat
Pretty cool, but please put your screenshot on the GitHub repo as well.
mgaunard
I think this encourages judging comments by their author's reputation rather than their intrinsic value.
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ajcp
psh! Classic elitist, 1000+ karma comment.
cwales95
Seems to work on Firefox for me so you may not need to write a firefox specific version!
moralestapia
>If requested I will create a Firefox version.

Please create a Firefox version.

gkbrk
I do the opposite thing, I have a uBlock rule that hides Hacker News usernames from posts and comments. I added this rule in order to prevent any positive or negative biases I might have towards users. I believe it lets me discuss and agree/disagree with the content instead of the person talking about it.
mcint
Speaking of checking people's profiles, on mouseover with Refined Hacker News [1] installed, I see you don't have a bio set up.

[1]: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

I also have HackerSmacker [2] and Momento for Hacker News [3] user tagging. I've only really used Hacker Smacker to make a note to self about propensity for great contributions, and probably installed Momento with expanding that intent in mind.

[2]: https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker

[3]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/momento-for-hacker-...