Ask HN: What features would make a Hacker News Chrome extension indispensable?
I’ve started developing a Chrome extension that displays comments in a side panel adjacent to any Hacker News-linked page you visit, but similar tools already exist. In previous versions, users also raised privacy concerns about sending information about their active page to third-party servers. Do you have any suggestions for additional features I could implement?
Currently, the Chrome extension uses https://hn.algolia.com/ to get information about pages in other tabs. Also, I can run huggingface transformers.js with models like Openai Whisper or ocr image to text inside a Chrome extension side panel. Any feature ideas for a Chrome extension to interact with Hacker News and all the webpages linked?
I’d like the ability to hide links to the Atlantic, New York Times, and Ars Technica.
Firefox user, but maybe an option to hide all posts that are paywall blocked - unless someone posts an archive link (although actually ignore those too - paywall sites should be punished)
"Indispensable" is a high bar.
As few variances from the unadorned ui as possible.