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Ask HN: Which browser add-on for Hacker News do you use?

9 points by neilv ↗ HN
The first thing I need is a user-block feature. (HN has done an impressive job at nurturing civility, but it's time.)

I saw a promising-looking add-on for Firefox, but it had only a few users so far, and there was a blob of Wasm in the `.xpi` that was a barrier to a very quick skim of the code.

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JohnFen
None. I find HN to be good enough that I don't have anything I'd feel the need to bother trying to "fix".
runjake
None, though I might be swayed if there were something that muted or, failing that, blocked users.

The comments section has become more cluttered and quippy than I'd prefer. This is likely due to the influx of users from the decline of Reddit.

I've started developing my own ad-hoc browser extension that adds a "hide user" link next to each commenter, but it's not yet in a minimum-viable state.

KomoD
Tampermonkey w/ custom user scripts, super easy to throw together something that uses document.querySelectorAll (I do this for post titles!)
matt_s
None. Comment chains are easy enough to minimize and when there are less civil or silly things its a good reminder for me to stop browsing HN.

I'd like less "news" types of news since that turns this site more into reddit than I would like. 10% of the current front page is that right now (3/30) so its not bad but general news commentary is a slippery slope.

mindwork
PiHole resolves it to 127.0.0.1

I spend way too much time on this website

in9
I just use https://hckrnews.com/ for a better glance at a given's day posts. Sorted by upvote, I think, and then I can choose to see the top 10, 20, or 50% of posts. It's an ok curation, but I much preferred one over a newsletter that the author stoped delivering a couple of years ago.