GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs
Details
- External ID
- 47006587
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs
- Website domain
- google.com
- Launched
- Feb. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 40
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7857142857142857
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I was frustrated with how bad a signal of progress through a big PR "Files viewed" was, so I made a "Lines viewed" indicator to complement it.Designed to look like a stock Github UI element - even respects light/dark theme. Runs fully locally, no API calls.Splits insertions and deletions by default, but you can also merge them into a single "lines" figure in the settings.
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- github extension to track code review progress
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight Chrome extension that parses GitHub PR DOM elements to count and display lines viewed instead of just files viewed.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Phabricator, GitLab, GitHub stacked PRs
Concerns raised: AI-generated code is unmaintainable and creates tech debt, Large AI PRs impossible to review meaningfully, LLM refactors rewrite instead of move code, changing implementation, PR review workload becomes unsustainable bottleneck, Unclear authorship/accountability with AI-generated commits
Feature requests: Code movement/copying gutter indicators, Code coverage gutters, PR breakdown by file type (tests, docs, source, generated)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 69 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 70 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 106 days after the earliest competitor.
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- github-ranking-audit · github · 2026-09-17 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews · hn · 2025-10-30 · 265 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Srcmap · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations · hn · 2026-06-30 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- I built a tool that reviews any GitHub PR and quizzes you on it · hn · 2026-07-31 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Track trending GitHub repos on HN · hn · 2026-06-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Caveman · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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- No other launches for this product.
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