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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2019–2021
peak thread · 122 comments
259 pts
latest 20+ return · 2021-09-28
69 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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Hello everyone, OP/developer here! If you are already using the extension, you can see the "[op]" beside my username too! ;) There are many extensions out there that add quite a few features to Hacker News, but they also always do one thing, which I have realised, is a slippery slope: changing the minimalistic design and style of Hacker News. I created this extension with one thing in mind: I am NOT going to mess around with the overall design…

Hi all, developer of Refined Hacker News here! Happy to see that it has been posted about again. I had initially posted it last year as a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173974 and my philosphy behind the extension (as mentioned in the my comment) is: > There are many extensions out there that add quite a few features to Hacker News, but they also always do one thing, which I have realised, is a slippery slope: changing the minimalistic design and style…

Feature request: functionality to auto-hide articles from a user-configurable domain kill-list, for those of us who don't want to see articles from e.g. Politico or Buzzfeed. Bonus points if it could also filter stories with user-configurable keywords in the title. I've suggested this in the past to dang for the main HN UI, but they have limited resources for this sort of thing and there's a fear that if filtering is too easy, it'll split the community here.

dpifke·69-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
422

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
230

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2019-06-13Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN ExperienceFirst breakout · Best threadplibither8259122
2020-07-11Refined Hacker Newsmemexy9340
2021-01-13Browser Extension: Refined Hacker News – Reply to Comments Inlinejlkuester710
2021-09-28Refined Hacker NewsLatest 20+ point returnjaytaylor6968