"Tested, not vibe coded" yet you mention the AI has written all the tests. This extension may not be vibe coded but it's close to that, it seems. Regardless it seems to work well, I replaced the older Refined Hacker News extension with this, which seems like where you initially sourced the code from as the features are very similar, 1:1 even for some.
What's the tech stack, pure TS? You also might want to migrate from Biome to oxc, I did recently and it plays well with Vite+ (or just move to Vite+) directly.
Noticed a bug, once I edit my own comment and go back to the main post, I show up as [op] not you. Also I should be able to edit my post inline not be moved to a separate page.
latchkey 54 minutes ago [-]
It is heavily coded with AI, but I'm also a 30+ year web developer. I'm not just one shotting all of the code, I'm reading it too. I'm feeling like it is giving me super powers.
See the thread below about refined, which hasn't received an update in 4 years.
I have HNRelevant on my list of features that I've been collecting.
I tried oxc and didn't like it as much as biome. They admittedly aren't as good at formatting yet. The real winner here is ultracite.
satvikpendem 46 minutes ago [-]
Sounds good. Another bug or quirk, with Refined, I was able to reply and then tab once to the reply button and hit enter. Now with the "HN's approach to comments and site guidelines." text I can't do that, "comments" and "guidelines" are links so I have to tab three times to get to the reply button which is annoying. Omit that text or change the tab order (this is possible in HTML with the tabindex attribute, just make the reply button higher priority).
Also add ctrl/cmd-enter support to submit the reply.
Also this orange border when clicking a comment or link on the front page is a bit annoying, especially when it doesn't seem to actually do anything (it's not a tab select style, that shows up as the browser's normal style), and it seems to persist.
latchkey 29 minutes ago [-]
The orange box is to mark where you are currently focused. If you use the keyboard navigation (keys: j/k), it really helps.
latchkey 30 minutes ago [-]
Great suggestion! I literally took your comment, passed it into AI. At first it tried to remove the text as well as set tabIndex to -1 in code, but I think now I've got something I like.
This has been fixed and is making its way out now.
maxloh 1 hours ago [-]
I built a Stylus theme to make Hacker News' UI more modern.
This is exactly what I don't want my extension to become. I don't want a new UX, I want the existing UX to be enhanced.
odysseus 28 minutes ago [-]
How about a Safari/Mobile Safari extension so iPhone users can use it?
latchkey 23 minutes ago [-]
Agreed. Unfortunately, the browser extension tool that I use, wxt [0], doesn't support Safari yet. It seems there are some work arounds, but I haven't gotten to it yet. PR's welcome, of course. =)
I can't figure out how to toggle to Light Mode (maybe it uses the system setting?). HN is something I prefer to be in Light Mode but everything else in dark. Gonna remove until this is configurable.
latchkey 1 hours ago [-]
Defaults to system. The toggle is in the top right corner of the navbar next to your karma.
cobbman 2 hours ago [-]
I want hacker news UX to stay as it is, mostly, but these are features I'd welcome.
dang 11 minutes ago [-]
What features would you welcome?
latchkey 5 minutes ago [-]
Inline replies.
Right now, I have to do a ton of magic to make that happen in order to work around your auth flow. Namely, pulling the auth token out of the other page and then having to keep track of it in session storage.
I could delete a whole lot of code if that was just built in.
latchkey 1 hours ago [-]
Thanks. My feeling as well.
ipsum2 1 hours ago [-]
It looks pretty good! I'm using it now and its a meaningful improvement to the existing site.
Out of curiosity, why did you make a new Github account for the extension instead of developing it on your own account?
latchkey 1 hours ago [-]
Thanks!
Because I see this becoming bigger than me and a separate organization made sense. There is a super thin backend component right now too. There is the potential to also add in some extra features that require a server/db. I'm kind of inspired by the atuin model of things.
I've got a LONG list of features I'd like to implement over time.
altairprime 1 hours ago [-]
Latchkey, would you be comfortable with HN adopting your dark mode styling as a user choice someday, if they came around to liking it? I really like it and I think it’s in the spirit of the site.
satvikpendem 1 hours ago [-]
I'm pretty sure that will never happen, as it would've happened already by now. People can and do already use custom CSS or Dark Reader for dark mode.
dang 11 minutes ago [-]
Some things have taken us 15 years and then pow they happened
latchkey 54 minutes ago [-]
Or you can just use my extension, heh.
tomComb 1 hours ago [-]
That would be great! Please do.
latchkey 1 hours ago [-]
Thanks! A lot of it is AI with my own input, but I think it did a great job.
The code is all open source and people can do with it what they want. It is GPLv3, but I'd special license it to them as MIT without question.
altairprime 1 hours ago [-]
Ah, oh well. Thanks!
2 hours ago [-]
xydac 1 hours ago [-]
its funny how us developers build varied UX, but nothing beats the simplicity of HN's default experience. quick and bloat free.
latchkey 1 hours ago [-]
That's the beauty of this extension, it keeps things simple.
ramon156 1 hours ago [-]
> Why Install Orange Juice?
> Because Hacker News is great, but repetitive UI friction adds up. Orange Juice keeps the original feel while removing the things that cost you time every day.
That does not convince me to use your app? This is like calling someone's Kia shit and instead telling them to buy a Tesla, but just stating that it's better.
I'll stick to HN, thanks.
satvikpendem 52 minutes ago [-]
To me, that doesn't sound like your analogy at all. It'd be true if the extension for example redirected an HN thread to a reddit thread of the same posted URL, ie a replacement of the original, but the extension simply adds features to the existing site. There have been extensions like this available for years, like Refined HN which this is based off, as well as many third party HN clients. Therefore I think you should try it before judging so harshly.
1 hours ago [-]
latchkey 1 hours ago [-]
Sure. What language would convince you?
UPDATE: I've changed the copy, it is pushing right now.
wesz 1 hours ago [-]
The improvements are nice, that's for sure. But i checked out github and it looks like overengineered ai slop, you could implement all the features with 1/10 of the code. But again, nobody cares nowadays which makes me sad. You even generated chrome/firefox logos using ai...
latchkey 1 hours ago [-]
How is it over-engineered slop? Happy to improve things, but I thought it was pretty clean.
wesz 34 minutes ago [-]
You claim to have 30+ years of webdev experience and yet 2 MEGABYTES of javascript only for those features doesn't feel/look wrong to you?
dang 10 minutes ago [-]
Hey please don't cross into personal attack. You can make your substantive points without that.
It might be beneficial to tell me what the difference between these two can be? A lot of the features from my first glance (I can be totally wrong though) are within HN refined.
I would really appreciate a short summary of differences. Personally I am really happy by HN refined though so kudos to @plibither8
I used refined for years as well. Great product, but the underlying code was meh, and the author abandoned it. If you're using refined today, you're experiencing a lot of bugs as the HN DOM has changed over time.
I maintained my own fork for a long time but finally motivated myself to try out AI assisted coding and this is what came out of it. It isn't a port, it is a clean rewrite from the ground up.
I took every feature that I enjoyed from refined, re-implemented it from scratch, with a totally different architecture that allows much more control over the DOM and runs a whole lot faster.
I had AI write hundreds of of unit tests, so that we can make sure that bugs don't appear in the future. I also fixed a whole ton of edge cases along the way.
The entire deployment, all the way to the browser stores, is fully automated with CI/CD, so that we know that the supply chain is safe.
In other words, you might as well migrate. If there is something missing that you enjoyed, file an issue, or even better... a PR.
2 hours ago [-]
Isolated_Routes 2 hours ago [-]
This is helpful! Thank you
latchkey 1 hours ago [-]
:heart:
Novosell 1 hours ago [-]
Did you ai generate the Chrome and Firefox logo? That isn't what they look like, or have ever looked like, from what I know.
latchkey 1 hours ago [-]
Yes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
DrBenCarson 1 hours ago [-]
…why?
latchkey 1 hours ago [-]
[flagged]
semolino 1 hours ago [-]
Taking shortcuts with design tends to result in users trusting your project less.
59nadir 1 hours ago [-]
Why not just use the actual logos? It's not as if you *have* to generate them.
dartharva 56 minutes ago [-]
You need AI to just replace the svg?
satvikpendem 51 minutes ago [-]
These days, everyone is using AI for even small things, because honestly it's easier to say to an AI to use original SVGs and have it go out and find the correct ones with a web search tool call than to do it myself, it's simply a waste of my time for small tasks like that.
latchkey 50 minutes ago [-]
Of course I don't, but if it helps me do trivial tasks so that I can focus on other things, I might as well use it.
Fraterkes 26 minutes ago [-]
I think it's fine if you find the design of the site a trivial thing that others shouldn't focus on, but it kinda begs the question why you didn't just have the ai generate a much simpler page.
Why have the ai generate all this fluff when you just want to show of what you've made? You (rightfully!) care about not wasting your own time, why waste ours?
latchkey 9 minutes ago [-]
Sorry for wasting your time.
Klonoar 1 hours ago [-]
What on earth is that Firefox logo...?
latchkey 58 minutes ago [-]
FIXED
Rendered at 20:49:44 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
I also use this extension HNRelevant (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hnrelevant) which shows a list of similar posts, you might want to add that as an optional feature as well.
What's the tech stack, pure TS? You also might want to migrate from Biome to oxc, I did recently and it plays well with Vite+ (or just move to Vite+) directly.
Noticed a bug, once I edit my own comment and go back to the main post, I show up as [op] not you. Also I should be able to edit my post inline not be moved to a separate page.
See the thread below about refined, which hasn't received an update in 4 years.
I have HNRelevant on my list of features that I've been collecting.
I tried oxc and didn't like it as much as biome. They admittedly aren't as good at formatting yet. The real winner here is ultracite.
Also add ctrl/cmd-enter support to submit the reply.
Also this orange border when clicking a comment or link on the front page is a bit annoying, especially when it doesn't seem to actually do anything (it's not a tab select style, that shows up as the browser's normal style), and it seems to persist.
This has been fixed and is making its way out now.
Some screenshots:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mon-jai/modern-hacker-news...
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mon-jai/modern-hacker-news...
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mon-jai/modern-hacker-news...
Repo:
https://github.com/mon-jai/modern-hacker-news
[0] https://wxt.dev/guide/essentials/publishing.html#safari
Right now, I have to do a ton of magic to make that happen in order to work around your auth flow. Namely, pulling the auth token out of the other page and then having to keep track of it in session storage.
I could delete a whole lot of code if that was just built in.
Out of curiosity, why did you make a new Github account for the extension instead of developing it on your own account?
Because I see this becoming bigger than me and a separate organization made sense. There is a super thin backend component right now too. There is the potential to also add in some extra features that require a server/db. I'm kind of inspired by the atuin model of things.
I've got a LONG list of features I'd like to implement over time.
The code is all open source and people can do with it what they want. It is GPLv3, but I'd special license it to them as MIT without question.
> Because Hacker News is great, but repetitive UI friction adds up. Orange Juice keeps the original feel while removing the things that cost you time every day.
That does not convince me to use your app? This is like calling someone's Kia shit and instead telling them to buy a Tesla, but just stating that it's better.
I'll stick to HN, thanks.
UPDATE: I've changed the copy, it is pushing right now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's the bundle size, not the amount of code in the project.
I've done nothing to try to optimize the bundle size, but I suspect that a lot of it has to do with some of the third party dependencies like mermaid.
https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#highlights
It might be beneficial to tell me what the difference between these two can be? A lot of the features from my first glance (I can be totally wrong though) are within HN refined.
I would really appreciate a short summary of differences. Personally I am really happy by HN refined though so kudos to @plibither8
https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/135...
I used refined for years as well. Great product, but the underlying code was meh, and the author abandoned it. If you're using refined today, you're experiencing a lot of bugs as the HN DOM has changed over time.
I maintained my own fork for a long time but finally motivated myself to try out AI assisted coding and this is what came out of it. It isn't a port, it is a clean rewrite from the ground up.
I took every feature that I enjoyed from refined, re-implemented it from scratch, with a totally different architecture that allows much more control over the DOM and runs a whole lot faster.
I had AI write hundreds of of unit tests, so that we can make sure that bugs don't appear in the future. I also fixed a whole ton of edge cases along the way.
The entire deployment, all the way to the browser stores, is fully automated with CI/CD, so that we know that the supply chain is safe.
In other words, you might as well migrate. If there is something missing that you enjoyed, file an issue, or even better... a PR.