Show HN: Hacker News Comments Drill Down Chrome Extension

Category: other

Tags: chrome-extension, hacker-news, comment-reader

Score: 5.3/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 6, Documentation: 6, Utility: 5)

This Chrome extension improves the Hacker News reading experience by providing a collapsible drill-down view of comments, rendering markdown that HN leaves as raw text, and hiding the compose box until needed. It's interesting because it reconstructs the comment tree from HN's flat HTML structure using row order and indent depth, preserving all interactive elements like voting and reply links.

Target audience: frontend devs, HN users

Repository: https://github.com/bachmitre/hacker-news-comments · JavaScript

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