Proton's hn

A better Hacker News

Dark mode, faster loading, favicons, archive links and a few other things. The script and styles that load on HN come to about 30 KB, or 13 KB compressed. Your login and votes still work.

One-click install for Firefox Download for Chrome Source on GitHub

Why

Hacker News is fast and plain, this adds dark mode, prefetching and a few reading tools, while the site stays the same, so logging in, voting and commenting work as usual.

Make it yours

Almost everything is a setting: theme, page width, row spacing, which features run, and filters for users, domains and keywords. Open the gear in HN's header to change them.

What you get

Light, dark and system themes in HN's own colors, with the same layout
New comments marked when you reopen a story
Thread tools, ignore users, and blocklists for domains and keywords
Copy, archive.is and Wayback links on every story
Favicons are on by default. They load from DuckDuckGo, which sees the domain of each story. You can turn them off in settings.
Keyboard shortcuts: j and k to move, o for comments, l for the article

Install on Firefox

Click the button above.
Click the download button and Firefox will offer to install the extension permanently.
To try an unsigned build, open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox, choose "Load Temporary Add-on", and pick manifest.json from the unzipped folder.

Install on Chrome

Unzip the download, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, and choose "Load unpacked".