Better HN
Realtime Comment Updates and Cleaner Look
Details
- External ID
- 47370222
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Wikipedia 10x, 100x Better
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hacker news interface improvements
- Manually corrected
- False
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
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 53 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #50 of 54 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 111 days after the earliest competitor.
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