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I'm sharing a userscript for for those who read the HN comments section a lot:1. Updates comments without reloading the page — instantly see new ones as they appear.2. Cleaner comment topline for less distraction — shows controls only when you hover over the topline.There is a preview gif of how it looks in the README.
HN · launched Mar 13, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: browser extensions · 257 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 257 launches in browser extensions →
Could you build this?
Yes A userscript that polls the Firebase Hacker News API or scrapes HTML to dynamically inject new comments and tweak CSS styles is a classic, rapid vibe-coding task.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 83 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #80 of 84 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 111 days after the earliest competitor.
- HN Comment Saver · hn · 2026-07-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Turning 100-plus comments HN threads into readable discussions · hn · 2026-01-02 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript · hn · 2026-07-28 · 433 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I built an interactive HN Simulator · hn · 2025-11-24 · 538 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Slop News · hn · 2026-02-07 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Curious HN – Hacker News without the snark · hn · 2026-11-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- HN Insights · hn · 2025-11-22 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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