Orange Juice
Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
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HN · launched Apr 8, 2026 · 147 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views
Niche: browser extensions · 257 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -39% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- 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 Orange Juice is a standard browser extension that injects CSS and content scripts to modify DOM elements, store local state, and handle keyboard shortcuts on Hacker News.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Octal (iOS HN reader), HN Comments Owl (browser plugin), Stylus (styling extension), Violentmonkey (userscript manager)
Concerns raised: Browser plugins are security risks and anti-pattern, Text formatting conversion (HTML to markdown) is difficult, Mixing front page and newest page content causes strong user aversion, Firefox debugging is problematic
Feature requests: Personal ability to mute/block any account, Delegate muting/blocking decisions to external service, Intelligently autowrap long lines of text, Built-in native text muting/blocking without browser plugins, Render unstyled text with JavaScript instead of HTML
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1204 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #99 of 1205 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 160 days after the earliest competitor.
- HN Glance · hn · 2026-07-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Visual-HN · hn · 2026-07-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- hype · github · 2026-09-18 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- An elegant HN client with built-in translation · hn · 2026-04-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- kagami-md · github · 2026-11-01 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode · hn · 2026-08-05 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Camel Mono · hn · 2026-06-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PixelFonts · github · 2026-10-01 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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