Userscript to Display Age/Karma of HN Users
Details
- External ID
- 47203804
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Userscript to Display Age/Karma of HN Users
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.491389913899139
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Small script to display account age/karma next to all usernames, so you have that info available to you without clicking through to someone's profile. Opus 4.6 written, it's a mess but it works :) Using with Tampermonkey on Firefox.
Enrichment
- Theme
- social media scraping and analytics
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- display user age and karma on hacker news
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author explicitly created this simple Tampermonkey userscript with Claude Opus; it queries the Hacker News Firebase API and manipulates DOM nodes.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Concerns raised: bot activity suppression
Feature requests: display filtering based on karma ratio calculation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 25 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 26 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 60 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Baby Age Tracker & Widget · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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- No other launches for this product.
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