Orange Juice
Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read
Details
- External ID
- 47694036
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Orange Juice
- Website domain
- oj-hn.com
- Launched
- April 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 147
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9286632390745502
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- 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 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 — 458 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #34 of 459 (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 0.52
- Visual-HN · hn · 2026-07-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- hype · github · 2026-09-18 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- An elegant HN client with built-in translation · hn · 2026-04-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Camel Mono · hn · 2026-06-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode · hn · 2026-08-05 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- HackerTok · hn · 2026-02-15 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ThinkReader · github · 2026-09-11 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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